Archive for: Monthly Stumblings

Monthly Stumblings # 5: Bruno Lecigne

Bruno Lecigne’s “De la confusion des languages” (on the mixing up of the languages) My monthly stumblings are, sometimes, restumblings, really… This past weeks I restumbled at least twice: on Otto Dix’s Der Krieg (the war) and Bruno Lecigne’s ”De la confusion des languages”  (Controverse – controversy -, May 1985). In “De la confusion…” Bruno Lecigne presented eight chapters about [...]

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Monthly Stumblings # 4: Dominique Goblet, Nikita Fossoul

In Chronographie (another quasi-wordless book) they publish ten years of their more or less biweekly portraits of each other (Fossoul was seven years old when they began and Goblet was thirty one).

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Monthly Stumblings # 3: Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Francisco Solano López

Argentinian scriptwriter Héctor Germán Oesterheld raised mainstream adolescent comics much above the business as usual, pervasive formulaic dreck.

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Monthly Stumblings # 2: Frans Masereel

Frans Masereel in the Expanded Field…

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Monthly Stumblings # 1: Pierre Duba

 Racines (roots) by Pierre Duba Sometimes I mumble an inner “Wow!”… It happens when I stumble into a book that I find great. It’s quite possible too that, upon rereading, months or years later, I also say to myself: “How could I like this stuff so much?!” The thing is that we need the right [...]

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