2/26/2010

Mome vol.18

cover by Nate Neal.



Finally, i got some of my work published in the U.S., i'm really happy about this, hope it will not be the last time btw...
More info and a video preview about the Mome project here.

From the Fantagraphics website:
"Every "period" in modern comics history has had its anthology that tapped into the zeitgeist and foreshadowed a new "generation" of cartoonists (Zap in the '60s; Arcade in the '70s; RAW and Weirdo in the '80s, etc.). For the new millennium, there is Mome. This quarterly book will spotlight a regular cast of a dozen of today's most exciting cartoonists. Mome features the same collective of artists every issue, allowing the artists and audience to grow together and build an ongoing identity that is highly unusual for the world of contemporary comics."

"If the world of alt-comics feels appealing but intimidatingly vast (what doesn’t these days), Mome is the perfect place to start. ... An anthology is only as good as the sensibilities of those who compile it, of course, so it’s worth noting that a subscription of Mome equals four issues per year of work culled from the depths by an outfit that not only has keen vision in such matters, but also a stake in finding the very best. What’s not to trust?"

2/21/2010

Cover Studies



Cover studies for my upcoming book...
Ball pen and computer coloring.

2/16/2010

Suburban Wasteland

Flash back... I stumbled across this old 2005 painting while getting some film developed, and it brought me back a lot of memories, many things did happen in the last five years, and since 2007 and the recent capitalist crisis, be sure our world will never be the same again.
This painting was some sort of commission for a strange project called the "Reverse Cinema", where six different artists were doing a fake cinema poster, then, some people will imagine a scenario and shoot a short film out of it. Ironically, seem that i had been the loser of the bunch, nobody did a short film out of my poster, the painting wasn't hung properly and fell on the street, it was stored somewhere, supposed to be sold and then disappeared forever. These poor quality photos are the only remaining trace of that painting.
Fun fact is that was painted in September 2005, one month before the french ghetto riots erupted...




A short glimpse of the painting appear at 1'21''and 2'17''shot during the opening night.


2/08/2010

Bez Komentarza pt. 3

Party time at the 20 miedzynarodowy festiwal komiksu y gier, after the award ceremony.

Later on, some books were signed.

Naked ladies were drawn on request...


The steel pipe stuck inside the urethra is an all-time classic...

1/15/2010

Bez Komentarza - Press




The book eventually got some press, but i really can't tell if the reviews are positive or negative... Try reading Polish.
The article below was taken from the website Sadurski.com, which is from what i can understand, is a Polish cartoonist / Internet portal & at the same time a publishing company releasing satiric & political cartoon magazines. Displaying the book among a pile of garbage, with used condoms & cigarette butts was quite a fun idea.

Rysunek satyryczny Plastyka
Bez komentarza - recenzja komiksu 2009-09-16
Bez komentarza - recenzja komiksu Oto recenzja komiksu "Bez komentarza", napisana dla portalu Sadurski.com przez Jarosława Marcina Chudzika.

Bez komentarza - czyli cała prawda o homo sapiens

Po przeczytaniu tego komiksu ze 100% pewnością złapiecie doła. Nie może być inaczej, jeśli autor Ivan Brun bezlitośnie pokazuje nam ludzką naturę. „Bez komentarza” to chyba najbardziej poruszający z wydanych do tej pory komiksów w Polsce! Okładka może mylić; narysowana twarz młodej kobiety w stylu mangi odstraszy zapewne przeciwników japońskiego komiksu. Na szczęście to tylko zmyłka, w środku mamy europejską kreskę.

Rysownik pochodzi z obszaru komiksu frankofońskiego, przesłaniem jednak, bliżej mu do rysunków amerykańskiego mistrza undergroundu Roberta Crumba. Autor zniekształca ludzkie postacie, powiększając im głowy, resztę zostawia w poprawnych proporcjach, rysuje realistycznie. Może, sugeruje nam tym celowym powiększeniem, że jesteśmy jak lalki, kukiełki, uwikłani w rzeczywistość, gramy jak nam karzą niewidoczni „władcy marionetek”?

Twórca (rocznik 1971) jest absolwentem ASP w Lyonie, poza tworzeniem komiksów śpiewał w hardcorowej grupie Coche Bomba. Publikował często pornograficzne historie obrazkowe w licznych zinach. Komiksy zebrane w albumie „Bez komentarza” były wcześniej w większości publikowane w miesięczniku „L`Echo des Savanes”. Wszystkie historie są pozbawione tekstu. Rysunki klarownie i dosadnie opowiadają nam ludzką wegetację. Przez to, że autor celowo nie komentuje opowieści, zyskują na sile i dają do myślenia długo po zamknięciu i odłożeniu albumu na półkę. Gdyby jakiś obcy w rodzaju ET przejrzał ten komiks stwierdziłby, że ludzie nadają się tylko do najcięższych robót w kopalniach uranu. Homo sapiens nie reprezentują ani jednej zalety, to chodzące potworki pełne zawiści, złości, pożądania. Undergroundowy rysownik przedstawia narkomanię, debilistyczne media ze swoimi kolejnymi odmianami Big Brothera, umierające środowisko, skorumpowaną i gnijącą władzę, egoistyczne podejście bliźnich do siebie. Czasem zamiast słowa artysta używa w dymku powszechnie zrozumiałych symboli. Ivan Bruno tym otwierającym nam szeroko oczy komiksem bez ogródek wystawia same jedynki na świadectwie współczesnej ludzkości. Jak napisał T.S. Eliot w swoim wierszu "Wydrążeni ludzie:
„..tak oto kończy się świat
tak oto kończy się świat
tak oto kończy się świat
nie hukiem ale skomleniem”./*

Ivan Brun już słyszy ten zwierzęcy skowyt. A Wy, Drodzy Czytelnicy?

Recenzja i foto: Jarosław Marcin Chudzik - www.jmc.za.pl

Bez Komentarza, Kultura Gniewu 2009, cena 44,90

/* Wydrążeni ludzie w przekładzie Krzysztofa Boczkowskiego

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Here's what we have with the help of an automatic Polish to English translator...

Review of comics No Comment.
, for portal by jaroslaw of marcin written Sadurski.com Chudzika.

Without comment - or you will tackle about after reading with 100% certitude whole truth this comics homo sapiens doła. Otherwise, it can not be, if author shows human nature pitilessly Ivan Brun. Probably, till now it without comment from issued in poland most comics „ ” underway < move >! Plate can mislead; drawn face of young woman will frighten away opponents of japanese comics in style surely mangi. It on luck only zmyłka, in center (means) european line mum < have >. Designer (drawer) dates from area of comics frankofońskiego, however, message, for drawings of american champions closer it (him) undergroundu Roberta Crumba. Author distorts human forms, heads play increasing memorial < they (their) >, it leaves the rest in correct proportions, it draws realistically. It can, it suggests these expedient increases , that we are as doll, kukiełki, to reality involved, play we punish invisible „ ruler puppet ”? Framer is graduate in lyons academy of plastic arts ( age group (year-book) 1971 ), it sang beyond creation of comics in (to) group bomb hardcorowej Coche. It published pornographic illustrated histories in (to) numerous often zinach. Comics assembled (collected; convened) were published in album without comment in (to) majority in monthly „ ” earlier „ ” L`Echo des Savanes. They are stripped all histories text. Drawings clearly tell and they tell human abruptly wegetację. As result, that it does not comment author expediently story, they gain on power and they give for reflection after closure (shutdown) long and on shelf putting off of (putting aside of) album. If it comics in kind some (certain) foreign review ascertain ET, that people (people) be suitable for roughest (heaviest) jobs in mines of uranium only. They do not represent Homo sapiens neither one advantage, it walking freak full envy, it will irritate, coveting. It presents drug addiction designer (drawer) Undergroundowy, die with next changes media debilistyczne Big Brothera, environment die , corrupt < corrupt > and putrefying authority, egoistic identical approach for . It uses artist instead of word in (to) sometimes intelligible (apprehended) generally dymku symboli. It exposes (set out) eyes without on certificate of (testimony of) modern mankind comics one it opening we widely Ivan Brun. As it has written T.S. In poem " excavated people (people) Eliot here, here, here, world world world „ finish so finish so finish not rumble ..tak but ” skomleniem. / *

1/13/2010

Bez Komentarza


No Comment's Polish edition, published by Kultura Gniewu back in July 2009.
This was an enhanced version compared to the original edition with some extra pages and illustrations. Despite being a wordless comic book, they took care of translating the few remaining words and letterings in Polish, great job!

1/06/2010

Lexomyl



Record cover for a little seven inch vinyl featuring two Punk Rock bands, Lexomyl from Lyon, and The Sioux from Metz, France.
Just a plain pen & ink drawing, no color, no half-tones, back to the roots: the old times when my drawings were designed to be xeroxed instead of being offset printed.

12/24/2009

Arms Race

Four page short story published in "L'echo des Savanes" September issue.
This one is about asymmetric warfare.




12/23/2009

Desintegration

Eight page story published in the July issue of the magazine "Echo Des Savanes". Note the summer themed cover of the mag...




This short story deals with the plight of the Young Urban Unemployed youth living in western Europe.

12/16/2009

1969 pt 2

Some of the details that were inserted in some panels of that 1969 story...The Beatles "Abbey Road" cover for the nostalgia factor...

The cover of a tasteless porn DVD for the eroticism...

12/15/2009

1969

Pilote Special Summer edition, commemorating its 40 year-old anniversary.
Last year, there was a special anniversary issue focused on 1968, but this time, for the 1969 issue, the authors were asked to work on erotica, hippie nostalgia and such...
Judging by the cover, there's a great selection of comics artists, not to say the cream of the crop of the french comic scene...


My modest contribution to the mag...



More detailed views here...

12/14/2009

Grosso Gadgetto - self produced

He has a meth lab inside his head.


Inspired by a famous propaganda poster from the WW2.


The printed result.



12'' vinyl record for the local Abstract Hip-Hop band Grosso Gadgetto. That was released last November, have to mention that the recording and mastering job on this slab is quite impressive. 500 copies were pressed, don't sleep.

12/13/2009

No More Seasons pt. 2


Well, Eight months without posting anything on this blog...
It's time for a little summary of the different activities done lately before the end of the year, the end of the zeroes, the turn of the decade... Be sure the next decade will be full of good surprises.

About the picture above, well, the Cd sampler went out, the printing quality is Okay, meaning the colors are bright and not so distorted compared to the original drawing, and the four bands featured on the record are doing fine.

Pizzza / Nunc Est Bibendum / Apraxie / Tête De Cerf
Available for 5 Euros - mostly in mailorder lists or some bookstores in Paris...

4/28/2009

" No More Seasons "

CD and booklet cover. Click to enlarge.

Design for the CD.
Cover design for an upcoming CD sampler featuring 4 different independent Hip-Hop bands. Bands featured are Apraxie, Nunc Est Bibendum, Pizzza and Tête De Cerf...

4/24/2009

Book Sign... pt.2

This character is supposed to represent the famous dead painter Paul Cezanne...

...who lived and worked in the beautiful and posh city of Aix-en-Provence...

A nod to the cover of the latest comic book drawn by Tanxxx...

Hand-made T-shirt design made on the spot.

4/23/2009

Book Signatures




Dedication doodles done during the Bd Aix festival / comics fair.
Lines are quite loose, this is what you can call "drunk drawing"...
the three last pictures are a nod to the G-20 summit happening the same week-end, where the world leaders were busy finding solutions to refuel the global financial system... Alleluia.