Don't Mess with Cops...

Seems things are changing drastically regarding freedom of speech in our beautiful country of milk and honey.
After Rap bands being sued for lyrics dealing in bad terms with the national police forces, it's time for a cartoonist to meet the justice for a drawing depicting a cop face with a strangely looking pig nose.
No big deal you may think, but it raises some interesting questions for the years to come: Who will guard the guardians? Are we quiting a fake democracy to enter a soft dictatorship?

more details about the case here:
http://touscochons.blogspot.com/

Exposure

This illustration had been recycled for the cover of the cultural news magazine Kiblind, which is printed at 10000 copies and which can be found for free in many trendy places in our lovely city of Lyon. A city which claims to value arts and culture but where the people don't know how to party until 6 a.m. ... Before going to sleep, there's the possibility to download a pdf version of the mag there . Good Night.

Another variation on the same image, how to make those stupid bears fit in a "punk" looking image. trying to re-create the cheap cut and paste feel while using a computer...

CARE BEARS

http://www.purevolume.com/carebears
CARE BEARS // LYON HxC THRASH 1989

That was the second band were i performed some vocal duties.
the band existed for 9 months, between September 1989 to June 1990.
You can click on the links to hear some audio samples.

Yoshikawa

Graphite and acrylic on paper, sizes approximatively 80 by 120 centimeters, done back in 1998, original got lost. Doesn't matter anyway... by the way, i was not completely satisfied by that drawing. Just check how the legs are attached to the hips...

Don't Mess...

I had often been told that messing art with politics is a very bad thing.
The magazine where i published my recent works had been closed by the media giant Lagardère Active Media last December. Seems now there's little or almost no room to express different opinions within the mainstream media.

More info about the magazine demise here
Transnationale.org has some detailed info about the Lagardere Group as well as for other multinational corporations.

Rock in Squatt

Here are some vids i took to document the musical activity of a squatted venue that had opened recently in Lyon. Those kind of places are unfortunately kind of short-lived in France and chances are the squatt will be closed in the next months...
Shooting those cheap videos are also a fun way to experiment sequential art and narration in a different field than what i'm doing with comics.
you can check my Youtube channel there: (^_^)


December 09 2006, Shit, Organ Grinder, Chewbacca, Senoys...


December 30 2006, Passion Armée, Aguirre, J'M'En Fous, Gasmask Terrör, Amanda Woodward...


January 20 2007, Ken Park, Plaine Crasse, Out With A Bang! (Italy)...

Doodle Doodle

did this while answering to phone calls...

Senseless Asbtract Crap

Found this rummaging into my things, seems naming this blog Dump Site is quite appropriate.
the sketch is like one of those doodles made while talking on the phone, tried to make a painting out of it, attempting to make more neutral, consensual and "sellable" paintings. These last from 1999, rather post it there before it returns to the dump and therefore fall into oblivion...

Home Sweet Home

Things had been a bit hectic these days...
Have to relocate and go back to work as soon as the situation will be back to normal...

Bananas... at the Audience

Record cover for the third album from the local band Bananas at the Audience... possibility to check their sound there: http://attheaudience.free.fr
Click on the pictures to enjoy a full detailed view.

Liquidators

Both were made mid-August at an open-air rock festival along with the painters from the Organic Comix collective, it's been raining all the week-end and as a result the panels were soiled with grass and mud.

Here's a lil' video about a little painting intervention of 20 minutes we did later in the night...

Untitled 1994

Painting done back in 1994, this oil on canvas sizes 150x210 cm, it was made from a photograph i took inside our local shopping mall.

EYES

Eyes - page 2

Eyes - page 3

Eyes - page 4

WASTED DREAMS

Wasted Dreams

Serie of portraits done from pictures found on online dating sites.
Painted with acrylic on discarded cardboard.

Erotica..... " SKIN JOB "

Finally, it's summer time, as there's more skin exposed on the streets, thought it was time to display some erotic orientated work. SKIN JOB is a strange graphic novel which tells the story of a Colombian girl emigrating in a bit "surreal" California. She ends up being involved in the online porn business by her lover/boyfriend.

That 110 pages story got published between 2002 and 2004 in the french magazine "Geisha", ( http://www.geishavpc.com/boutique/liste_rayons.cfm?code_lg=lg_fr) which includes mostly translated japanese material, The story is actually published in the pages of the italian "Blue Magazine". ( http://www.coniglioeditore.it/riviste.php )

Click on the pictures to enjoy the full-view.

" SKIN JOB " a trip in a surreal Californian porn valley

Here's some random panels from the story, yes, these are not the actual pages, which are filled with too much sexually explicit material...