Press Release: Christophe Blain tours west coast next week!
I don’t usually just post press releases, but this is amazing! Christophe Blain will be touring west coast comic stores starting this weekend! If you’re in the area I absolutely insist you go. Blain’s work is incredible, and his Isaac The Pirate series is a wonderful cartooning achievement. Publisher NBM is hosting the tour, so pick up a bunch of their books while you’re at it. If I could be there, I would…
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
‘Super-Creator’ Comes to USA
French embassy hosts Christophe Blain; critics compare him to Vonnegut & Daumier
“Christophe Blain is one of those super-creators in France that very few English-speaking people have heard of.” — Read About Comics
“[Blain’s] styles of figuration and lighting marry Daumier and Munch.” — Booklist
“Like Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut.” — School Library Journal
Blain is the writer and artist behind Isaac the Pirate, the best-selling graphic-novel series about an artist who accidentally turns buccaneer and falls through a series of hilarious adventures. The book won the prestigious Angoulême International Comics festival’s highest award. Blain has also written and drawn graphic novels such as the critically lauded The Speed Abater and contributed to Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar’s popular Dungeon books. The French embassy’s Cultural Services Department is bringing Blain to the United States as part of its French Authors on Tour program (www.frenchculture.org/spip.php?article50&tout=ok). NBM, the publisher of Dungeon, Speed Abater, and Isaac the Pirate in the United States, is delighted to work with the Embassy on Blain’s tour.
At this writing, Blain is scheduled for the following events (and more may be added soon).
Saturday, April 26, 7 p.m.
Secret Headquarters
3817 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90026
323-666-2228
www.thesecretheadquarters.com
Sunday, April 27
12 noon: Booth 318 (Hi De Ho Comics)
2 p.m.: Booth 732 (French Cultural Services)
4 p.m.: Royce Hall, Room 306 (lecture followed by wine reception)
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books
UCLA
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095
213-237-6552 or 800-728-4638 x72665
www.latimes.com/extras/festivalofbooks
www.hidehocomics.com
Monday, April 28, 7 p.m.
Book Soup
8818 Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069
310-659-3110 or 800-764-BOOK
www.booksoup.com
Thursday, May 1, 6 p.m.
Floating World Comics
20 Northwest 5th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
503-241-0227
www.floatingworldcomics.com
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- Christopher
April 24th, 2008 | by Chris
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April 25th, 2008 at 10:21 am
For once I’m actually jealous of people on the west coast! Whodathunkit?
April 25th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Zach- The weather is amazing though, to be fair.
April 25th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I’d rather be on secure land, than on the verge of becoming fish food.
April 25th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
That’s fantastic!
April 25th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Too bad I’m on the wrong coast. Blain is brilliant. His new series Gus is one of the best things I’ve read in a long time.
April 27th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Chris, I’m hoping you actually get this, as emailing you rarely seems to work.
We have NOT received your ad for the Anime North Program Book, and the book goes to press Tuesday morning.
We MUST receive your ad by 5 PM Monday, else it won’t go in.
Send it directly to
kt.broccoli@gmail.com
dfs.engineer@gmail.com
You can call me tomorrow (Monday) at work at 905-212-7692.
May 1st, 2008 at 11:00 am
[…] Courtesy of Chris Pitzer of Adhouse, there’s plenty more info from the original press release over on Chris Butcher’s blog, including the list of appearances, all of which unfortunately are on the West Coast. Have fun hanging out with Christophe Blain, ya’ damn hippies! […]