#clement oubrerie

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Out this week: Aya: Claws Come Out (Drawn and Quarterly, $24.95): 

Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie’s first volume of Aya, released back in 2006, won the “First Comic” prize at Angouleme that year. Now, more than a decade after the last volume was released, the husband and wife duo return to the Ivory Coast for more stories featuring the college student and her friends.

See what else is arriving in comic shops this week!

[leonardcohenofficial]

i watched 120 new-to-me films this year; here are the posters from a few of my favorites in no particular order!!

faults (riley stearns, 2014) out of the blue (dennis hopper, 1980) wake in fright (ted kotcheff, 1971) entergalactic (fletcher moules, 2022) histoires d'amérique: food, family and philosophy (chantal akerman, 1989) the woman king (gina prince-bythewood, 2022) waking life (richard linklater, 2001) on the count of three (jerrod carmichael, 2021)  thank you and good night (jan oxenberg, 1991)

i’ll tag @lesbiancolumbo / @draftdodgerag / @localpubliclibrary / @calicoskiesacoustic / @jerrylandis / @columbosunday / @harrierdoobie  / @sightofsea and anyone else who’d like to do this!! 🌟

entire watchlist from 2022 is below the cut:

the world to come (mona fastvold, 2020)

nancy (christina choe, 2018)

la bouche de jean-pierre (lucile hadžihalilović, 1996)

run (aneesh chaganty, 2020)

the mosquito coast (peter weir, 1986)

mass (fran kanz, 2021) 

a field in england (ben wheatley, 2014) 

angels wear white (vivian qu, 2017)

a cape cod christmas (john stimpson, 2021) 

shook (jennifer harrington, 2021)

outing riley (pete jones, 2004)

love & mercy (bill pohlad, 2014) 

small engine repair (john pollono, 2021) 

the fallout (megan park, 2021) 

clemency (chinonye chukwu, 2019)

red elvis (thomas latter, 2022) 

calendar girls (nigel cole, 2003) 

the little hours (jeff baena, 2017)

out of the blue (dennis hopper, 1980) 

aya of yop city (marguerite abouet and clement oubrerie, 2013) 

fresh (mimi cave, 2022)

jesus camp (rachel grady, 2006) 

bamboozled (spike lee, 2000)

master (mariama diallo, 2022)

the world of us (yoon ga-eun, 2016) 

jezebel (numa perrier, 2019)

the cat, the reverend and the slave (alain della negra and kaori kinoshita, 2009)

cohabitation (lauren barker, 2022)

the queen of versailles (lauren greenfield, 2012)

secret ceremony (joseph losey, 1968)

the northman (robert eggers, 2022)

the silent partner (daryl duke, 1978)

in secret (charlie stratton, 2013)

the ground beneath my feet (marie kreutzer, 2019)

the man who haunted himself (basil dearden, 1970)

woodlands dark and days bewitched: a history of folk horror (kier-la janisse, 2021)

the miseducation of cameron post (desiree akhavan, 2018)

roadrunner: a film about anthony bourdain (morgan neville, 2021) 

karen dalton: in my own time (richard peete and robert yapkowitz, 2020) 

fire music (tom surgal, 2018)

histoires d'amérique: food, family and philosophy (chantal akerman, 1989)

fruit of paradise (věra chytilová, 1969)

a different image (alile sharon larkin, 1982)

preparations to be together for an unknown period of time (lili horvát, 2020) 

candyman (nia dacosta, 2021)

fan girl (antoinette jadaone, 2020)

chicago 10 (brett morgen, 2007)

pray away (kristine stolakis, 2021)

mavis! (jessica edwards, 2015)

M (yolande zauberman, 2018)

wake in fright (ted kotcheff, 1971)

thomasine & bushrod (gordon parks, 1974)

desire me (released uncredited; jack conway, george cukor, mervyn le roy, and victor saville, 1947)

faults (riley stearns, 2014)

premature (rashaad ernesto green, 2019) 

mother joan of the angels (jerzy kawalerowicz, 1961) 

the loft (erik van looy, 2014)

the black phone (scott derrickson, 2022) 

no exit (damien power, 2022)

nope (jordan peele, 2022)

paprika (satoshi kon, 2006)

our eternal summer (émilie aussel, 2021)

playground (laura wandel, 2021) 

not okay (quinn shephard, 2022) 

everything everywhere all at once (daniel kwan and daniel scheinert, 2022)

pressure point (hubert cornfield, 1962)

sharp stick (lena dunham, 2022) 

on the count of three (jerrod carmichael, 2021) 

martha marcy may marlene (sean durkin, 2011)

waking life (richard linklater, 2001)

sicaro (denis villeneuve, 2015)

arrival (denis villeneuve, 2016)

this magnificent cake! (emma de swaef and marc james roels, 2018) 

chevalier (athina rachel tsangari, 2015)

young and wild (marialy rivas, 2012)

alice (krystin ver linden, 2022)

shame (steve mcqueen, 2011)

good madam (jenna cato bass, 2022) 

black bear (lawrence michael levine, 2020)

speak no evil (christian tafdrup, 2022)

wet sand (elene naveriani, 2021)

the catholic school (stefano mordini, 2021)

poly styrene: i am a cliché (celeste bell and paul sng, 2021)

the violators (helen walsh, 2015)

the woman king (gina prince-bythewood, 2022)

the killing kind (curtis harrington, 1973)

oleanna (david mamet, 1994)

entergalactic (fletcher moules, 2022)

the more the merrier (george stevens, 1943)

primrose path (gregory la cava, 1940)

watcher (chloe okuno, 2022)

enemy (dennis villenueve, 2013)

darlin' (pollyanna mcintosh, 2019)

sissy (kane senes and hannah barlow, 2022)

till (chinonye chukwu, 2022)

black panther: wakanda forever (ryan coogler, 2022)

the hunt (thomas vinterberg, 2012)

the other side of the underneath (jane arden, 1972)

barbarian (zach cregger, 2022) 

the intervention (clea duvall, 2016)

sorry to bother you (boots riley, 2018)

the silent twins (agnieszka smoczyńska, 2022)

tahara (olivia peace, 2020)

arranged (diane crespo and stefan schaefer, 2007)

swimming (luzie loose, 2018)

#like (sarah pirozek, 2019)

babysitter (monia chokri, 2022)

chico and rita (tono errando, fernando trueba, and javier mariscal, 2010)

pleasure (ninja thyberg, 2021)

john the violent (tonia marketaki, 1967)

fat girl (catherine breillat, 2001)

lemon (janicza bravo, 2017)

thank you and good night (jan oxenberg, 1991)

what about me (rachel amodeo, 1993)

the KKK boutique ain’t just rednecks (camille billops and james hatch, 1994)

sun don’t shine (amy seimetz, 2012)

zero fucks given (emmanuel marre and julie lecoustre, 2021)

piggy (carlota pereda, 2022)

ladyworld (amanda kramer, 2018)

wolf's hole (věra chytilová, 1987)

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Comics, die ich gerade lese

Ich bin immer wieder hoch erfreut, wenn mit zufällig riesige Schätze in die Hände fallen. Das wundervolle Comic Isadora von Julie Birmant und Clement Oubrerie ist so ein Fund.

Weder kannte ich die Zeichnerinnen noch die Protagonistin des Buches: Isadora Duncan. Sie ist es, die den modernen Tanz geprägt und entscheidend entwickelt hat. Eine starke Frau voller Sehnsüchte, Kreativität, Mut und Enttäuschungen. Sie hat ein Leben wie auf einer Achterbahn erlebt, das so tragisch wie skurril enden musste.

Alles intensiv gezeichnet und coloriert. Gesichtszüge zum verlieben und Tanzszenen, die so leichtfüßig gezeichnet sind, dass man Isadora förmlich über das Papier schweben sieht.

Meine Leseempfehlung

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2023/25. CON LAS MANOS DESNUDAS. LEILA SLIMANI/CLEMENT OUBRERIE. LIANA EDITORIAL.

[pacingmusings]

Seen in 2021:

Aya of Yop City (Marguerite Abouet & Clement Oubrerie), 2013

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[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

Wait there's a comic version of Voltaire in Love??

It's not Mitford's Voltaire in Love, it's its own thing. It's a graphic novel by Clement Oubrerie; there's two volumes out now: Voltaire Amoureux and Voltaire très Amoureux.

[nestofstraightlines]

I feel as if not so many people know about the wonderful graphic novel version of Northern Lights/ The Golden Compass so I want to recommend it!

It was adapted by Stephane Melchior and drawn by Clement Oubrerie in French and was published in the last couple of years for the English speaking markets.

It took me a second to acclimatise to Ouberie’s style but I soon adored it. It’s so wild and free but detailed at the saem time. His vision of Lyra’s world feels so close to the feeling I got from the book. I love how he uses colours. Of the adaptations this is the one that includes that sense of the gritty and visceral that Pullman does. You feel the grubbiness of Trollesund, the stink of Lyra’s furs by the time she gets to Bolvangar etc.

I think the directors and/or writer of the BBC/HBO His Dark Materials definitely read this and took some ideas. Look at those second two pages - Lyra hiding in a space behind an ornate grill instead of the book’s wardrobe; escaping a lesson with a scholar out the window (even the angles are very similar there).

I also really love his Iorek. He reminds me a little of Kevin O'Neill’s Mr. Hyde from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen sometimes, and I love that. The screen adaptations (and most cover art) stick pretty close to what polar bears look like and make him look kind of immediately appealing, not really embodying the scary alien uncanniness Lyra feels when she first encounters him. But my idea of Iorek, perhaps because the first cover of the book I encountered was this, was always far more like this, occupying a sometimes uneasy middle ground between person and animal.

I also love what Ouberie does with Svalbard, it’s just how it should look, all incongruous classicism and rotting seal carcasses.

I believe Melchior has already published the first volume of The Subtle Knife in France, this with a new artist, I hope they translate it to English too!

Here’s the UK link to buy

And here’s the US one

[thenearsightedmonkey]

Outtake from Making Comics. This is an early format attempt. In the beginning I just like to start building pages and then try to figure out what they are trying to turn into. You can learn so much by copying frames of comics. These images were copied from the brilliant “Aya:Life in Yop City” by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie @drawnandquarterly https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx3wEcQjfkI/?igshid=844ilui9md7n

[eli-spencer]

my bad if this has already been asked but, what are some of your main inspirations for your art? Love the style!

here we go, in numerical order! - goya, medieval drawings, old disney stuff (this ones by milt kahl), watership down, chris riddell, dark crystal, hayao miyazaki, kentaro miura, ff9, tezuka, clement oubrerie! i have a million others, too. haha! and this is purely visual stuff, if we get onto music i’ll be here for hours

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Can’t Wait for Comics | Love & ThunderCats

New comics and graphic novels arrive this week by Declan Shalvey, Drew Moss, Zoe Tunnell, Dani Pendergast, Bryan Hill, Stefano Caselli, Ram V, Chris Claremont, Amy Jo Johnson, Marguerite Abouet, Clement Oubrerie and more.

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Athena, clement oubrerie  (comic book Isadora)

[connieashford]

Monday lecture- Comics and Visual Narrative 18th Feb 2019

Today’s lecture was all about comic books and the sequential art as a particular mode of visual narrative. I really am not keen on manga as a style and have never found any liking towards it but this does not mean I wasn’t interested when Maggie showed us some of the first examples of Manga. I also do respect that comic books have a long history or entertainment for adults and kids and I myself enjoyed reading Dennis the Menace as well as my mums old Tin Tin comics. 

I enjoyed learning about the global like the German broadsheet and Toba Sojo the artist/monk who was I think the first to do Japanese manga. I also did like the comic books that weren’t in a manga style like ‘Aya’ by Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie. 

An topic I found myself writing a lot about what a historical moment that happened in the USA in the 1950′s when there was a comic book controversy and people began to burn them. Comics allegedly promote violence, racism and criminality in juveniles according to Frederic Wertham. Crime and horror within comic books was now linked to juvenile delinquency and so a ‘comic code’ had to be introduced which severely impacted what could be represented in comics. 

I was slightly switching off during the section about formatting comics and how the multi frames can affect the reading experience, however I think Maggie is a really great lecturer and so it wasn’t too bad. 

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Catching up on September 2016 releases from Knopf Publishing!

The Golden Compass Vol. 2 TP by Philip Pullman, Clement Oubrerie. The second volume in a graphic novel adaptation of one of the most celebrated books of all time! In this three-volume graphic novel adaptation of The Golden Compass, the world of His Dark Materials is brought to visual life. The stunning full-color art will offer both new and returning readers a chance to experience the story of Lyra, an ordinary girl with an extraordinary role to play in the fates of multiple worlds, in an entirely new way. This second volume finds Lyra in the far North, rescuing the children held captive by the notorious Gobblers with the help of Gyptian fighters, new-found witch allies, and the armored bear Iorek Byrnisson. $9.99 MSRP

You can ask your local comic shop to back order this item for you by using Diamond Distribution order code JUL161715

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My Year in Reading: 2019

Here is every book I read over the last year, listed in the order I read them (with the exception of the comix collections at the end of the list). These are the books I read cover-to-cover and completed. Books I particularly enjoyed are in boldface; asterisks indicated a book I’ve read more than once. Sarah Moss - Ghost Wall

Aravind Adiga - Selection Day

P. Djeli Clark - The Black God’s Drums

Charles Forsman - The End of the Fucking World

Bob Dylan - The Nobel Lecture

George R. R. Martin - Nightflyers

Irvine Welsh - Porno

Seanan McGuire - Every Heart a Doorway

Colm Toibin - Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

Andrew O’Hagan - The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age

Anders Nilsen & Cheryl Weaver - Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow

Martha Wells - Artificial Condition

Alistair Cooke, ed. - The Vintage Mencken

Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern (Autumn 1998)

Granta 102: The New Nature Writing

Marguerite Abouet & Clement Oubrerie - Aya

Jeff VanderMeer - Borne

Alan Moore - Jerusalem, Book 2: Mansoul

Dave Eggers - The Parade

Seanan McGuire - Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland - The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

Mary Robinette Kowal - The Calculating Stars

Louis Begley - Wartime Lies

Martha Wells - Rogue Protocol

Tillie Walden - On a Sunbeam

Jill Lepore - This America: The Case for the Nation

Nick Hornby - State of the Union

Emma Glass - Peach

Elliot Ackerman - Waiting for Eden

Tillie Walden - Spinning

Geoff Dyer - The Missing of the Somme

Martha Wells - Exit Strategy

Dave Sim - Cerebus*

Dave Sim - High Society*

COMIX COLLECTIONS

Amazing Spider-Man: The Clone Conspiracy

Old Man Logan: Old Monsters

Kaijumax: Terror and Respect

Old Man Logan: Past Lives

Bitch Planet: Extraordinary Machine

Batman by Ed Brubaker

Hellboy: Wake the Devil

Old Man Logan: Days of Anger

Hellboy: The Chained Coffin and Others

Old Man Logan: Scarlet Samurai

X-Men Gold: Back to the Basics

Immortal Hulk: Hulk in Hell

Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom

Old Man Logan: To Kill For

Captain America & Black Widow