ONCE AGAIN.

still some really, really interesting pictures. hum.


Sylvain Ricard (writer of "Kuklos", "le cirque aleatoire",...) and the Jouvray brothers.



Gilles from BDNews.net, famous author Oslonovitch and the troll worlwide-knowed as Xaxa. 8)



Drine, Baladi, Remi Lucas...



sunshiny Drine, Xaxa da pirat, and uh, me.



Xaxa & yours friendly. have you seen how many times doeas Xaxa appears ? please remind him to send my check. thanks.


thanks to Drine for the pics and for Fred for the hosting service.
more soon, yep.

BOURG LES VALENCE PICS. FINALLY.

first ones. there's many many more but i'm working, you lazy bored people... so you gotta wait for the next ones.
soon...
thanks to Fred for the images hosting service. cool beans. 8)



Helvetiaaaaaa invades ! (part.one) Alex Baladi and Drine in la fabrique de fanzines, a really cool workshop, where all the tribe spends nearly all saturday long... 8)



Helvetiaaaaaa invades ! (part.two) as Frederik Peeters got the biggest amount of furious fans, waiting for him since early in the morning to sign some of his magnificent art.



Eric Omond, Lewis Trondheim, Fred Peeters, Pierre Wazem and Anna Sommer...



Helvetiaaaaaa invades ! (part.three). Wazem and Peeters.


more soon, i tell you.

NO, NOT THE PICTURES YET.

a few comics reads ; as usual, always great stuff. 8)
"hysteria" from Mike Hawthorne isn't that bad but not this fat, Daredevil 57
from Alex Maleev and Brian Michael Bendis is nearly boring, the great Giffen does weird weird stuff on Thanos, "the Losers", last issues of "Fables" and "Lovecraft" from vertigo are quite correct, but... uh, well, you got the point...
BUT ! the little preview i got from "it's a bird", the new graphic novel from DC/Vertigo, written by Steven T. Seagle and painted by Teddy Kristiansen, looks simply AMAZING. can't wait for it. Kristiansen rocks... i love him, i really do. 8)

so, we were talking about nice books...


"Dieu etait sur le mur" from B. M. Spaight featuring art from Anna Sommer. awesome Anna Sommer. Awesome her.



"Add some music" from David Scrima.



"faudrait voir a voir", from Ibn Al Rabin.



"la belle vie n? 5", from Jonathan Larabie.



"Blankets" from Craig Thompson.



the Comics Journal 2004 edition, courtesy of Fantagraphics.



Monte Beauchamp edited issue 14 of Blab!


> Brian K. Vaughan, the writer of "mystique" (hum), "Runaways" (...ok...), "Swamp Thing" (...hmm...) or "Y the last man" (greeeeaaaat !) got some video interview right here and another one "classic way", here at Sequential Tart.


> Johnny Ryan got some interview right here ; his Angry Youth Comix # 6 is out, so don't miss it... ish # 07 will be in stores later, in the summer.



> Dave Cooper still works on "real" issue of Weasel (# 8, in 2005), as the issue # 7 is more of a book including paintings than another story book. Nice interview (sept 2003) from the crazy guy just right here.



>and by the way, there's amazing toys out there ! Dave Cooper's Pip and Norton, but also Tony Millionnaire's Drinky Crow or Kaz's smoking cat are all there, nearly for real ! awesome toys,



tomottow if you're all nice enough, i'll blog last weekend pictures.
have a nice day, ladies and gentlemen.
i'm out.

SUNSHINE. A 2 HOURS DAILY RIDE.

and while in the train, i'm just :

- listening to classic "firsts days of sun of the year" cd i did a while back, while in the train, going to work.
(cd includes "summer in the city" from Justice System, does somebody know what did they became ? 8) )

- reading some interesting book called Septentrion from Louis Calaferte (thanks to Xaxa), awesome book that i'll talk later as soon as it'll be finished.

- drawing and drawing and drawing again on this soon-to-reach-deadline we decided with Drine : finishing some double Bourg-les-Valence graphic resume before this weekend... warf. for those of you interested for having some magnificent pieces of artwork for free (you're not dreaming, ladies and gentlemen ! for FREE !!!), we'll be happy to provide the double shit we work on, only if you send us some postal adress, that's it. fill the comments pop-up windows down right here and wait a few days.

oh, yes : i got the pictures we took this very weekend. it's pretty awful and uninteresting but i"ll scan it real soon. 8)
that's it.

TIRED (part. 24586174).

so friday we went to Bourg-les-Valence, for some kind of indy comics festival, which is not this usual around here in France.
i'll write a few lines about these 2 days when i'll get the pictures we took, probably on wednesday.
right now i'm nearly nead, so i'll go back to sleep. 8)
too short, too cool, too.. anyway.

a few words anyway : meeting friends was really huge, Fred Peeters is an awesome guy, drawing with Gilles and Drine alongside Andreas Kunding, Fafe, Nylso, and Alex Baladi was really a cool moment, Eric Omond was still under David b's "epileptic" influence, local food in the south of Lyon is AWFULLY DISGUSTING, Anna Sommer and Noyau are still really underestimed (but realy cool too), Lewis Trondheim said one more time that he's slowly stop drawing (but still writing), Baudoin is as sensitive human being, as much as his artwork is, Sylvain Ricard is an insane writer, i came home with tons of one-day zines courtesy of the swiss delegation of Baladi/Kundig/etc...

more really soon, pictures included. (maybe you also got to watch out Gilles' blog or website for pictures), soon.
right now ? back to sleep !

THAT'S-WHAT-FRIENDS-ARE-FOR.

funny, i was listening to this Madeline Bell's track yesterday (her brazilian flavored version, not the classic funk/soul anthem), enough times for becoming disgusted of it... classic example of the positive mind-oriented music that was produced in these years (the lp "This Is One Girl" was released in 76), this is some of the perfect naive and enthusiastic tracks for spending the one-hour ride i have each days for going to my job.



but this morning i spend the 60 minutes with old pal Laure (going back to London after a few days around "home"), which was cool for many reasons (1, seing old friend, 2, blabling with old friend, 3, seing that old friend have a decent and good life, 4, seing his video work - e-book in trains, how great-, and 5, knowing one more person working and living in London, eh eh eh). great time !

which happened the day after some good times with pal X (let's call him "x", even if i could called him "Glouglou"), eating at home while blabling about the lack of curiousity of too many people, how why the big bizness of music major's industry (as we know it...) is really going to its very own dawn, killing with its all of those artists, creators, workers of the promotion, distribution and sellers who helped spread the good vibe for years... anyway. things just sucks for all the people in orbit around this music bizness, and, hot dammit, so called CPU revolutionnists who have a real part of responsability with soulseeking and shit all day long don't give a shit, slowly and surely keeping doing their stuff.
of course major labels' politics ain't no good things, and it doesn't help to don't downloading like a fucker. but heck, we complain about how hard it is to find good stuff, to hear something else, to get an hand on alternative things and... and so what ? just let's keeping having free music, electronics sheeps. and fuck this "i'm a fan with no money, ain't no fun without slsk". tsss.

what else ? oh yes :

- Lego + Monty Pythons = Spite Your Face.
A remake in Lego of the "Camelot" musical number from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, This short was commisioned by John Goldstone for the special edition DVD release of the film.

- link (in french) for the weekend.

- courtesy of ease, the best clock ever is exactly here.



have a nice weekend ! 8)

BLANKETS LIVE. just kidding.



yay ! tomorrow in some comic shop called Experience, in Lyon (5, pl Antonin Poncet, 33 (0)4 72 41 84 14) (alwaaaays eastern france, fellas...) : Craig Thompson, one of today's top authors and tomorrow's best bet, will sign his artwork, including his only french translation "Goodbye, Chunky Rice" (Top Shelf then Delcourt), waiting for his soon to be second french translated book, a brilliant novel about love, pain, suffering and transitions, called "Blankets" (available through TopShelf and soon thanks to Casterman).

what else ? well, about this very weekend, nothing, nada, big void.
so enjoy.

WELL WELL WELL.

- if you've got some cool ideas about free storage of pics for this very blog, please tell me, i'm really looking for something which works. Villagephotos got a tiny tiny bandwith who authorize images of 120 k maximum (arf) and with a daily transfert who's under 5M/day (re-arf).
Free.fr got some ftp ? yeah, i suscribe, got my ID, but i cannot simply log in. fuck.
that's exactly why you cannot see those very nice pics from last sunday... 8(

- Saint Appolinaire is a small place near Dijon (eastern France, for those of you who just landed), where there's nothing do to, nothing to see.
except that untill march the 8, their city library got some interesting exhibition called "manga : alternative, different and creator's comics" (with same points of view/directions of people like comics author Frederic Boilet's ones), which is a cool mean to fill your time while around.
how's that, you're not around ? ok.

- really nice, nice photos from Matthew Perpetua, thanks to Queer Granny.

- Gus Van Sant's Gerry : film of the... film of the... nevermind. simply really, really good movie. period.

- from Auszilla's own hulk's journal, something informative on a global level and that you must sign if you're a USA citizen. come on ! 8)

A petition we should all sign.
>"To: U.S. Congress
>We demand that the Congress of the United States of America, and the aforementioned
>States themselves, create and ratify an amendment to our Constiution banning that most
>hideous, manipulative, and exploited of practices: Heterosexual Marriage.
>Sincerely,
>The Undersigned

I signed and wrote "I've heterosexually married twice, but now I recognize the error of my ways. I'm reformed, and I pledge to never do it again." (courtesy of Auszilla).

ok, i'm french and i signed it, but it's juts because i sign many, many petitions at the moment. nasty habit. 8)

DEEEEF JUUUXXXX LIIIIIVE !!!

uh ? is it my ears ?
yesterday this sunday night, we did some little trip to near-by swiss, where some Jukies were supposed to do the last date of their european minitour (by the way, it seems that this Jason guy is always around, or is it me ? 8) ).
so after a few hours drive, taking some pictures of landscapes under snow with Alcor new little toy (and while he was driving, too), we were in Friburg, CH, able to check the Aesop Rock guy alive and, well, kicking hard... we came into the place quite early and the guy who did the warm up was frankly as bad as me on the scratches, and his selection was correct at the beggining and quite boring at the end : french hip hop, here we come. well.
Fortunately for us, Ed, aka The Horse, finally came here and we spend the show all together, which was nothing but cool, to be together in a cool place to see cool shit, well...




Aesop Rock did his show alongside some real-coool partner in (c)rhyme, some guy called C-Rayz who's really an impressive guy on stage...
"(...)Spellbinding, cinematic, jaw-dropping, mind-blowing, completely original. The words will be put in your mouth (...) After seeing his performances, hearing his solo projects and listening to him shine on various collaborations, hardcore fans have become Conspiracy Theorists, demanding to know why this artist is not in every record store and touring all over the world, being seen and heard by the people he represents so effectively(...)" (C-Rayz, from his bio on the Def Jux site).

Aesop Rock ? well, what can i say ? this guy need 30 seconds for getting into the place, another 30 seconds for feeling the vibe, and when his first minut on stage comes to an end, so begin a reeeeaaal huge moment that you don't wanna spend with anybody else...

well, both of them did a terrific job, in fact ; the very few audience (i don't think we were 100 in the club) was really inside, and so was the sound ; gosh, a perfect place (le FriSon), with awesome soundsystem, and enough space for not having problems dealing with cigarettes smokes (by the way, there's more and more gigs or concerts self-called "tobacco free", and i think it's just as cool as normal, but cool. but normal. but, hey, cool. anyway). they also made my day, uh, night, with some really huge freestyle, these guys can give lessons to loads of so-called big mc's. really. their dj (dj Wiz ?)was pretty cool too, even if really rough on the levels, going through a table to another wihtout really checking volume levels ; heck, DJNYC, baby ! 8)

if you bored people are really, really nice, uncle Alcor will give us a few shots from the gig. Alcor ? Alcor ? are you there ? 8)