Gosh, I really like to be able to watch this program. Too bad I'm lousy at French and know no German. Maybe this will play on French Canadian television some time in the future and I can watch it with subtitles turned on? Please?
ARTE launches "Comix", a new series documentary devoted to the comic strip. Directed by Benoît Peeters, "Comix" explores the universe of the comic strip through the works and tendencies, of authors of all nationalities. "Comix" invites us to discover the whole wealth and inventiveness of the "ninth art". In this beginning of the 21st century, the comic strip knows a new age of now. "Comix" has for ambition to reveal us, graphic and narrative the whole force of the comic strip as well as the real work of the authors. She puts equally in perspective the relations that the comic strip maintains with the other media. The "ninth art" has not anymore to do its proofs: its train diversified themselves to the extreme one, borrowing from the paint, to the engraving, to the photograph and to the video. The comic strip asserts itself more and more as a language to leaves entire, able to approach not only humor and the adventure, but also the political and social satire, eroticism, autobiography, the report A new series all in bubbles and in colors to discover the enchanting universe of the comic strip, its mythical albums, its big contemporary authors and its new tendencies.
There's going to be an episode featuring Speigelman on Jan 15th Ware on the 29th, and the Mangaka proffession on the 29th:
The film allows us to meet three authors in succession, three "mangakas": Furuya that introduces us in the universe of an action series that is almost industrial in it's manufacture: work in workshop with attending, effectiveness, division of the tasks, excessive productivity. Then we go with Taniguchi, the more European of the mangakas, considered as a master, to the more introspective gait, intimist, deep, butworks equally in workshop. A dived in his history Neighborhood distant allows feeling the universal character of his ouvre. And at last, Kiriko Nananan.
I don't know who any of those artists are, but it sounds good.
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