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9781606996218 English 1606996215 Andr Franquin, the creator of arguably the greatest Franco-Belgian gag strip of all time (Gaston Lagaffe) and the custodian, for close to a quarter century, of the second greatest Franco-Belgian comedy-adventure strip (Spirou, behind the untouchable Tintin), was also a moody guy who suffered from crushing bouts of depression. With his late-career "Ides Noires" series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial, Franquin harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview, and the result was a series of joyfully morbid "blackout" pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable, and hopeless hell - executed in a phenomenally controlled, exquisitely dark black-and-blacker symphony of pen lines. (Franquin had intended to work with stylized silhouettes, but his obsessive doodler's nature overpowered him and resulted in an utterly unique look that he himself once complained looked like his regular style "covered in soot.") Franquin may have been hanging on by his fingernails, but his graphic mastery was undimmed, and the bracing despair, hopelessness and misanthropy he laid down onto the paper evidently helped him survive many a bleak day and night. Most of these strips have never been read in English. Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete "Ides Noires" collection (under the title Franquin's Last Laugh), with a new translation and introduction by editor Kim Thompson., Andre Franquin, the creator of arguably the greatest Franco-Belgian gag strip of all time (Gaston Lagaffe) and the custodian, for close to a quarter century, of the second greatest Franco-Belgian comedy-adventure strip (Spirou, behind the untouchable Tintin), was also a moody guy who suffered from crushing bouts of depression. With his late-career Idees Noires series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial, Franquin harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview, and the result was a series of joyfully morbid blackout pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable, and hopeless hell executed in a phenomenally controlled, exquisitely dark black-and-blacker symphony of pen lines. (Franquin had intended to work with stylized silhouettes, but his obsessive doodler s nature overpowered him and resulted in an utterly unique look that he himself once complained looked like his regular style covered in soot. ) Franquin may have been hanging on by his fingernails, but his graphic mastery was undimmed, and the bracing despair, hopelessness and misanthropy he laid down onto the paper evidently helped him survive many a bleak day and night. Most of these strips have never been read in English. Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete Idees Noires collection (under the title Franquin s Last Laugh), with a new translation and introduction by editor Kim Thompson., André Franquin, the creator of arguably the greatest Franco-Belgian gag strip of all time (Gaston Lagaffe) and the custodian, for close to a quarter century, of the second greatest Franco-Belgian comedy-adventure strip (Spirou, behind the untouchable Tintin), was also a moody guy who suffered from crushing bouts of depression. With his late-career "Idées Noires" series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial, Franquin harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview, and the result was a series of joyfully morbid "blackout" pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable, and hopeless hell -- executed in a phenomenally controlled, exquisitely dark black-and-blacker symphony of pen lines. (Franquin had intended to work with stylized silhouettes, but his obsessive doodler's nature overpowered him and resulted in an utterly unique look that he himself once complained looked like his regular style "covered in soot.") Franquin may have been hanging on by his fingernails, but his graphic mastery was undimmed, and the bracing despair, hopelessness and misanthropy he laid down onto the paper evidently helped him survive many a bleak day and night. Most of these strips have never been read in English. Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete "Idées Noires" collection (under the title Franquin's Last Laugh), with a new translation and introduction by editor Kim Thompson., Andr� Franquin, the creator of arguably the greatest Franco-Belgian gag strip of all time (Gaston Lagaffe) and the custodian, for close to a quarter century, of the second greatest Franco-Belgian comedy-adventure strip (Spirou, behind the untouchable Tintin), was also a moody guy who suffered from crushing bouts of depression. With his late-career "Id�es Noires" series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial, Franquin harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview, and the result was a series of joyfully morbid "blackout" pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable, and hopeless hell - executed in a phenomenally controlled, exquisitely dark black-and-blacker symphony of pen lines. (Franquin had intended to work with stylized silhouettes, but his obsessive doodler's nature overpowered him and resulted in an utterly unique look that he himself once complained looked like his regular style "covered in soot.") Franquin may have been hanging on by his fingernails, but his graphic mastery was undimmed, and the bracing despair, hopelessness and misanthropy he laid down onto the paper evidently helped him survive many a bleak day and night. Most of these strips have never been read in English. Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete "Id�es Noires" collection (under the title Franquin's Last Laugh), with a new translation and introduction by editor Kim Thompson., Created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine 'Fluide Glacial', Andre Franquin's 'Idees Noires' harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview, and the result was a series of joyfully morbid 'blackout' pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable and hopeless hell, executed in a phenomenally controlled, exquisitely dark black-and-blacker symphony of pen lines. This volume presents the complete 'Idees Noires' collection, with a new translation and introduction by Kim Thompson.", Franquin's Last Laugh is the complete collection of Andre Franquin's underground comic series 'Idees Noires', with a new translation and introduction by editor Kim Thompson. Andre Franquin is considered one of the founding fathers of the Franco-Belgian comic tradition. With his late-career 'Idees Noires', a series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, was created mostly for the underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial. The result is a series of joyfully morbid 'blackout' pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable and hopeless hell., Renowned Franco-Belgian gag cartoonist Andre Franquin suffered from depression. With his late-career "Idees Noires" series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial, Franquin harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview. Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete "Idees Noires" collection under the title Franquin's Last Laugh.
9781606996218 English 1606996215 Andr Franquin, the creator of arguably the greatest Franco-Belgian gag strip of all time (Gaston Lagaffe) and the custodian, for close to a quarter century, of the second greatest Franco-Belgian comedy-adventure strip (Spirou, behind the untouchable Tintin), was also a moody guy who suffered from crushing bouts of depression. With his late-career "Ides Noires" series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial, Franquin harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview, and the result was a series of joyfully morbid "blackout" pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable, and hopeless hell - executed in a phenomenally controlled, exquisitely dark black-and-blacker symphony of pen lines. (Franquin had intended to work with stylized silhouettes, but his obsessive doodler's nature overpowered him and resulted in an utterly unique look that he himself once complained looked like his regular style "covered in soot.") Franquin may have been hanging on by his fingernails, but his graphic mastery was undimmed, and the bracing despair, hopelessness and misanthropy he laid down onto the paper evidently helped him survive many a bleak day and night. Most of these strips have never been read in English. Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete "Ides Noires" collection (under the title Franquin's Last Laugh), with a new translation and introduction by editor Kim Thompson., Andre Franquin, the creator of arguably the greatest Franco-Belgian gag strip of all time (Gaston Lagaffe) and the custodian, for close to a quarter century, of the second greatest Franco-Belgian comedy-adventure strip (Spirou, behind the untouchable Tintin), was also a moody guy who suffered from crushing bouts of depression. With his late-career Idees Noires series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial, Franquin harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview, and the result was a series of joyfully morbid blackout pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable, and hopeless hell executed in a phenomenally controlled, exquisitely dark black-and-blacker symphony of pen lines. (Franquin had intended to work with stylized silhouettes, but his obsessive doodler s nature overpowered him and resulted in an utterly unique look that he himself once complained looked like his regular style covered in soot. ) Franquin may have been hanging on by his fingernails, but his graphic mastery was undimmed, and the bracing despair, hopelessness and misanthropy he laid down onto the paper evidently helped him survive many a bleak day and night. Most of these strips have never been read in English. Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete Idees Noires collection (under the title Franquin s Last Laugh), with a new translation and introduction by editor Kim Thompson., André Franquin, the creator of arguably the greatest Franco-Belgian gag strip of all time (Gaston Lagaffe) and the custodian, for close to a quarter century, of the second greatest Franco-Belgian comedy-adventure strip (Spirou, behind the untouchable Tintin), was also a moody guy who suffered from crushing bouts of depression. With his late-career "Idées Noires" series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial, Franquin harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview, and the result was a series of joyfully morbid "blackout" pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable, and hopeless hell -- executed in a phenomenally controlled, exquisitely dark black-and-blacker symphony of pen lines. (Franquin had intended to work with stylized silhouettes, but his obsessive doodler's nature overpowered him and resulted in an utterly unique look that he himself once complained looked like his regular style "covered in soot.") Franquin may have been hanging on by his fingernails, but his graphic mastery was undimmed, and the bracing despair, hopelessness and misanthropy he laid down onto the paper evidently helped him survive many a bleak day and night. Most of these strips have never been read in English. Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete "Idées Noires" collection (under the title Franquin's Last Laugh), with a new translation and introduction by editor Kim Thompson., Andr� Franquin, the creator of arguably the greatest Franco-Belgian gag strip of all time (Gaston Lagaffe) and the custodian, for close to a quarter century, of the second greatest Franco-Belgian comedy-adventure strip (Spirou, behind the untouchable Tintin), was also a moody guy who suffered from crushing bouts of depression. With his late-career "Id�es Noires" series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial, Franquin harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview, and the result was a series of joyfully morbid "blackout" pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable, and hopeless hell - executed in a phenomenally controlled, exquisitely dark black-and-blacker symphony of pen lines. (Franquin had intended to work with stylized silhouettes, but his obsessive doodler's nature overpowered him and resulted in an utterly unique look that he himself once complained looked like his regular style "covered in soot.") Franquin may have been hanging on by his fingernails, but his graphic mastery was undimmed, and the bracing despair, hopelessness and misanthropy he laid down onto the paper evidently helped him survive many a bleak day and night. Most of these strips have never been read in English. Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete "Id�es Noires" collection (under the title Franquin's Last Laugh), with a new translation and introduction by editor Kim Thompson., Created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine 'Fluide Glacial', Andre Franquin's 'Idees Noires' harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview, and the result was a series of joyfully morbid 'blackout' pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable and hopeless hell, executed in a phenomenally controlled, exquisitely dark black-and-blacker symphony of pen lines. This volume presents the complete 'Idees Noires' collection, with a new translation and introduction by Kim Thompson.", Franquin's Last Laugh is the complete collection of Andre Franquin's underground comic series 'Idees Noires', with a new translation and introduction by editor Kim Thompson. Andre Franquin is considered one of the founding fathers of the Franco-Belgian comic tradition. With his late-career 'Idees Noires', a series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, was created mostly for the underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial. The result is a series of joyfully morbid 'blackout' pages that postulated the world as a bleak, miserable and hopeless hell., Renowned Franco-Belgian gag cartoonist Andre Franquin suffered from depression. With his late-career "Idees Noires" series of gags from the late 1970s and early 1980s, created mostly for the independent/underground comics magazine Fluide Glacial, Franquin harnessed his still-virtuoso graphic style to his increasingly morbid worldview. Fantagraphics is proud to present the complete "Idees Noires" collection under the title Franquin's Last Laugh.