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Blossoms in Autumn – Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’s Graphic Novel is a Raw, Honest, Poignant and Quite Beautiful Meditation on Love and Ageing

  • by Andy Oliver
  • March 21, 2019

What one immediately takes from Zidrou and Aimée de Jongh’s Blossoms in Autumn – a tale of love in later life and the newest book in SelfMadeHero’s range of European graphic novel…

Les Trois Fruits (Three Fruits) & Bouffon (The Jester)by Zidrou and Oriol

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Zidrou Emphasizes the Dark Psyche of Humanity in His Fairy Tales with a Twist – ‘Les Trois Fruits’ and ‘Bouffon’

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • October 9, 2015

Belgian writer Zidrou’s flair for depicting the flaws in humanity is ever-present in his medieval fairy tales Bouffon (The Jester) and Les Trois Fruits (The Three Fruits). Coupled with two magnificent Spanish artists,…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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Zidrou and Porcel’s ‘Folies Bergère’ Presents a Mesmerising Metaphorical Odyssey into the Purgatory of the WWI Trenches

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • August 12, 2014

Since its publication in 1993, Tardi’s It Was the War of the Trenches (C’était la Guerre des Tranchées) has set the standard for World War I comics. But after 20 years there’s a…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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What Challenge Awaits a Ghostly Heart?

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • January 28, 2014

We travel from the classical child drama of Michel from Zidrou & Roger to the crime ridden sewers of turn of the century Paris in The Fury of Fantomas by…

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The Kid’s Alright

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • October 8, 2013

This one’s for the youngsters with all-ages European books aimed squarely at young readers: Kill Your Mothers 2 & The Adventures of Timo. Kill Your Mothers 2 (of 2) The…

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Kill Your Mothers

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • August 20, 2013

Zidrou, Borecki and Ers deliver a truly chilling series in Kill Your Mothers when they turn every teenybopper’s dream into a nightmare: what happens when the things you wish upon…

Columns · Crossing Borders · Eyecatcher

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The Client

  • by Bart Croonenborghs
  • August 6, 2013

Falling in love with a prostitute and kidnapping the pimp’s daughter to locate her after her disappearance is on top of the list of humongously bad ideas. Especially if you…

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