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Kim Thompson (trans) and
Andre Franquin
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Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Publication date
December 30, 2016
Pages
72
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781606996218
ISBN-10
1606996215
Dimensions
0 by 7.25 by 10.50 in.
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Publication Cancelled
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$16.99
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The Franco-Belgian gag cartoonistâs darker work, translated into English for the first time.
André Franquin, the creator of arguably the greatest Franco-Belgian gag strip of all time (Gaston Lagaffe) and the custodian, for close to a quarter century, of the second greatest Franco-Belgian comedy-adventure strip (Spirou, behind the untouchable Tintin), was also a moody guy who suffered from crushing bouts of depression. With his late-career âIdées Noiresâ series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial, Franquin harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview, and the result was a series of joyfully morbid âblackoutâ pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable, and hopeless hell â executed in a phenomenally controlled, exquisitely dark black-and-blacker symphony of pen lines. (Franquin had intended to work with stylized silhouettes, but his obsessive doodlerâs nature overpowered him and resulted in an utterly unique look that he himself once complained looked like his regular style âcovered in soot.â) Franquin may have been hanging on by his fingernails, but his graphic mastery was undimmed, and the bracing despair, hopelessness and misanthropy he laid down onto the paper evidently helped him survive many a bleak day and night. Most of these strips have never been read in English. Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete âIdées Noiresâ collection (under the title Franquinâs Last Laugh), with a new translation and introduction by editor Kim Thompson. YesEditions
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About: The Franco-Belgian gag cartoonistâs darker work, translated into English for the first time.
About: The Franco-Belgian gag cartoonistâs darker work, translated into English for the first time.
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