I vowed off linkblogging a while back since there’re plenty of great full time comics news blogs around these days, but this seemed like a news item that might fall under the radar, so…
It looks like there’s a new Christophe Blain book out–alas just in French for now. Blaine is one of my absolute favorite cartoonists working today, so I’m always keeping an eye out for new stuff from him, even if its something that I can only get from Amazon.fr and then just kind of muddle through/stare at rather than actually read. Based on my entirely half-assed reading of the article on ActuaBD.com, it looks like this book is a fictionalized political drama written by Abel Lanzac (apparently, an actual French politician of some sort) and illustrated by Blain. This seems to be atypical material for Blain, who is known (at least stateside) for things like Gus and His Gang, Isaac the Pirate, and Dungeon. Given how French-centric the topic seems to be here, it seems unlikely that this book will wind up translated into English and published domestically, but you never know…
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