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French Comics Genius Baru Delivers a Stunningly Violent and Amoral Adaptation of Canicule, Vautrin’s Crime Novel

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • June 3, 2014

Acclaimed for his focus on the working classes, comic creator Baru has created such blue-collar masterpieces as L’autoroute du soleil and Bonne Année. However, he remains criminally below the radar in the Anglophone…

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Enki Bilal’s ‘Méchanhumanimal’ Exhibition Highlights the Versatility of One of Comic’s True Visionaries

  • by Tom Murphy
  • November 5, 2013

Grant Morrison might have had his invitation to Buckingham Palace and Bryan and Mary Talbot might have gatecrashed the literary world by picking up the 2012 Costa Biography Award for…

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