Stereogum (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
This NSFW French-language trailer (via TwentyFourBit ) for Joann Sfar's Serge Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life makes us want to see the film. Mainly because Eric Elmosnino seems to inhabit Gainsbourg the way Sam Riley made like Ian Curtis in Control . Also: Nudity.
Comics-and-More (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
... Marvel like Sky Doll , not to mention other talented European artists like Posy Simmonds and Joann Sfar. Jacques Tardi is one of the greats and I'm happy that Fantagraphics has undertaken the project of bringing his works to American audiences. West Coast Blues is a crime story, but it's quite different than what most people associate with the genre, especially when it comes to the...
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The first full trailer for Joann Sfar’s biopic Serge Gainsbourg (vie héroïque) launched yesterday, and—what a shocker—there’s a naked chick in the first twelve seconds. The French-language promo video's opening scene depicts the late musician’s childhood, in which he smokes liberally and sketches a nude model. Gainsbourg gets older as the trailer...
The Daily Swarm (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
We’ve already revealed to you plenty of images and a simple video teaser from Joann Sfar’s biopic, about musical French icon, “Serge Gainsbourg: Vie Héroïque” (“A Life Heroic”) and today we have a lot more including the first trailer for the film. Granted, it’s a French-language trailer, but you don’t need to understand the...
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Have to admit if I hadn’t received some promo emails from NBM, I probably wouldn’t have given Dungeon: The Early Years a second look in the bookstore. Its logo is deliberately redolent of a fantasy role-playing game, and to my eyes the majority of comics based on games have been less-than-stellar. But this "mature readers" French comic series by writers Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim,...
Grow Wings -- the Journal of Laini Taylor (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... - unknown "Sometimes you kill just one person, and it takes care of everything." - Joann Sfar (from The Rabbi's Cat) "When we lose 20 pounds, we may be losing the best 20 pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love, and honesty!" - Woody Allen "We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is...
Isak (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
... Twain, Toni Morrison, Philip Pullman, Kevin Henkes, Lois Lowry, Chris Crutcher, Lauren Myracle, Joann Sfar
educating alice (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
At a recent HarperCollins preview I learned about the latest vampire-classic mash-up: Little Vampire Women . Yes, Louisa May Alscott, who was no slouch herself when it came to a thriller , is collaborating with one Lyn Messina on a new edition of Marmee’s girls’ story, undead meeting up with pickled limes this time round. The title immediately made me think of Joann Sfar’s Little Vampire...
