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In front | PANORAMA
(Illustration: Henning Studte)

A punch sound like POW in English but ALA in Polish. Weekly idiom comparisons

by Jesús Ramírez Morales // 08/10/08

INTERVIEW
And fuck you too (Photo: www.blog-sine.com)

Siné: ‘Satire has to be iconoclastic‘

Interview with the former caricaturist from French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, who founded his own newspaper after he was sacked for his anti-semitic tendencies

by Francesca Barca // 23/09/08

REVIEW
Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi (Photo: ©2007 PROKINO Filmverleih GmbH)

Cinema: Persepolis hits the UK

Released on 25 April in an English-dubbed version, a review of Franco-Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi's Oscar-nominated animation of a girl displaced in Vienna

by Jens Wiesner // 25/04/08

Meet Marzena Sowa and partner Sylvain Savoia, Marzi's creators (Photo: Sylvain Savoia)

Marzena Sowa: 'in communist Poland I'd dream about getting a Barbie from Pewex'

At 28, the author of comic series 'Marzi' – about a little girl living in the Polish People’s Republic - on her own story as a Pole between France and Belgium

by Aleksandra Szukiewicz // 04/02/08

AGENDA

Swedish ice hotels and Norwegian culture capitals

Plus carnival fever in Venice, cartoons in the south of France and Arab hip hop in Brussels - our guide to the month's best cultural titbits

by Katharina Kloss // 15/01/08

Named after Ho Chi Minh and Che Guevara (Photo: Emanuele Grifoni)

Ho Che Anderson: I never actually said 'hey mom, this is my sex book'

The London-born Canadian graphic novelist, 38, is relaxed and frank as he discusses being chosen as the only black cartoonist to portray Martin Luther King, a series which took him ten long years to complete

by Marco Riciputi // 23/11/07

FEATURE
Greece (Photo: MR)

Komikazen: European comics go independent

The third international festival of reality comics is underway. It's a new kind of neo-realism with innovative trends, small budgets and international celebrities

by Marco Riciputi // 25/10/07

Enki Bilal and his heroine (Photo: JB)

Enki Bilal: 'My cartoons evoke a past out of step with reality'

The Czech-Bosnian cartoonist, 55, weaves between cartoons, cinema and geopolitics, taking his readers on a trip into a futuristic universe where political commitment is key

by Prune Antoine // 07/07/07

FOCUS
Striking designs on an album published by the 'Association' (Photo: l'Association)

'The Association': revolutionary publishing house

Independent Parisian comic-book publisher The Association formed their own comic publishing house in 1991, celebrating their first bestseller with Marjane Satrapi's 'Persepolis' six years ago

by Anne-Laure Murier // 02/02/07

FOCUS
Iovinelli and Dall’Oglio, the thirty-something creators of Underskin (Photo: Immagine Iovinelli/ Dall’Oglio)

When manga becomes European

There's a new breed of European-borns, brought up on bread and TV cartoons, who are taking on the famous Japanese comic-strip genre and making it their own

by Silvia Cravotta // 01/02/07

Marjane Satrapi (Photo: Maria Ortiz)

Marjane Satrapi: 'the Iraq war was about nothing but oil'

We spoke to the Iranian graphic novelist, 37, in January, after she shot to fame with her black-and-white comic book ‘Persepolis’. It's currently hitting movie screens in its animated French version

by Inga Pietrusiska // 27/01/07

PORTRAIT
Hergé locked in conversation with Andy Warhol (Photo: Hergé-Moulinsart 2006)

Hergé at 100: man without a quiff

May 22 marks the 100th birthday of Hergé, ‘father’ and creator of comic boy-hero Tintin. Events have been organised around the globe to celebrate a man who has been somewhat eclipsed by his creation

by Louise Bongiovanni // 25/01/07

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