Belgo Comics 2022 [EN]

News from independent publishers of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Belgium)

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by Rebecca Rosen

Building on the success of its three previous issues, Belgo Comics is back in 2022 to present the latest publications of the independent publishing houses from the French-speaking community of Belgium.

These publishers are proud of the originality of their catalogue and of the specificity of their readers. They share common points: � a vision of their profession as being a demanding cultural operator, concerned above all with the development of the art of comic strips, in all its diversity; � an unfailing curiosity, a concern to experiment, to explore the limits of the medium, to connect it with other arts, or to enhance its heritage;

� attention to the quality of the works, their content, but also their material aspect. These publishers offer a large majority of long-term publications, for which interest is maintained over time; � an international outlook, through editorial partnerships and the publication of authors from various countries, while remaining firmly rooted in Belgian cultural reality.

Micro-edition has a strong presence too in this edition of Belgo Comics, with a pool of dynamic and changing collectives. Their fanzines and book objects, whose core content is focused on drawing and narration, are the witnesses of an innovative creation always concerned with moving lines.

Bruno Merckx Head of the Comic books and Children’s literature Department at the Ministry of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.

INDEPENDENT COMICS FROM BELGIUM: GRANTS AND INFORMATION ASSOCIATION OF COMICS AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATORS (ABDIL)

This nonprofit association aims at supporting comics authors and illustrators in their contacts with institutional interlocutors, more specifically political structures and their representatives.

Rue de l’Instruction 51, 1070 Bruxelles contact@abdil.be www.abdil.be

ILLUSTRATED LITERATURES SPACE (ELI)

This nonprofit association has been created in 2018 to gather and federate all actors in the field of graphic arts by providing a multifunctional space for meetings, workshops or other activities related to their profession of authors and artists.

Chaussée de Wavre 150, 1050 Bruxelles association.eli@gmail.com

TONER WORKSHOP – ILLUSTRATED LITERATURES SPACE

A cooperative co-working space of self-publishing authors that offers tools and training programs to enable them to create and print their own books and images.

Chaussée de Wavre 150, 1050 Bruxelles toner@framalistes.org

STUDIO FOR TEXT AND IMAGE (ATI)

Center for management, conservation and promotion of the collections in children’s and graphic’s literature.

Complexe “Ilot Saint-Georges”, 4000 Liège www.lesati.be

BAIE DES TECKS (read: ‘bédéthèque’ or comics library)

A library specialized in comics: publications, workshops, activities.

Traverse des Muses 17, 5000 Namur +32 81 74 49 05 baiedestecks@skynet.be

GRANDPAPIER – L’EMPLOYÉ DU MOI

Comics and digital stories portal. https://grandpapier.org/

LE VECTEUR

Boulevard Léopold II 44, 1080 Bruxelles www.promotiondeslettres.cfwb.be

Place Sainctelette 2, 1080 Bruxelles www.wbi.be

SABAM SOCIÉTÉ D’AUTEURS, GESTION DE DROITS

WALLONIA-BRUSSELS CENTER IN PARIS (CWB)

Rue de Marcinelle 30, 6000 Charleroi bibliotheque@vecteur.be - www.vecteur.be

Professional support for all aspects of copyright questions in Belgium and abroad.

LITTLE BELGIAN FANZINE LIBRARY

Rue d’Arlon 75-77, 1040 Bruxelles contact@sabam.be www.sabam.be

Cultural institute in charge of the promotion of artists of the WalloniaBrussels Federation in Paris as well as in France.

Le Rayon, specialized library in independent comics; Livresse annual festival; and artist residency.

Collection of independent and self-produced publications, monthly encounters on the fanzine culture, annual festival.

Bunker Ciné-Théâtre, Rue des plantes 66A, 1210 Bruxelles - www.fanzinorama.be

COMICS MUSEUM – BELGIAN COMIC STRIP CENTER

Permanent and temporary exhibitions, research library.

Rue des Sables 20, 1000 Bruxelles www.cbbd.be - visit@cbbd.be

COMICS AND YOUTH LITERATURE – GENERAL OFFICE OF LITERATURE AND PUBLISHING OF THE WALLONIA-BRUSSELS FEDERATION

Public entity in charge of the funding policy for authors, publishing houses and comics stakeholders in Brussels and Wallonia. It offers various types of grants and other forms of financial support.

Boulevard Léopold II 44, 1080 Bruxelles www.bandedessinee.cfwb.be

TRANSLATION SUPPORT – BELGIAN LITERATURE DIRECTION OFFICE

Various grants and subsidies for the translation of literary works by authors of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. The support can be either a direct subsidy to foreign publishers or a residency for foreign translators.

SACD-SCAM

127-129, rue Saint-Martin, 75004 Paris +33 1 53 01 96 96 info@cfwb.fr www.cwb.fr

Professional support at any moment of an author’s career.

WALLONIA-BRUSSELS BOOKSHOP IN PARIS

Rue du Prince royal 87, 1050 Bruxelles info@scam.be www.scam.be

EUROPEAN WRITERS HOUSE (MEDAA)

A place open to all authors and book professionals, for informal contacts as well as (co)working facilities.

Rue du Prince royal 87, 1050 Bruxelles mba@maisondesauteurs.be https://medaa.be/

INTERPROFESSIONAL PARTNERSHIP OF BOOK AND ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING (PILEN)

Association supporting the digitalization of the book industry through free professional training programs and other activities.

Rue du Prince royal 85/87, 1050 Bruxelles +32 2 290 08 07 pilen@futursdulivre.be www.pilen.be

WALLONIA-BRUSSELS INTERNATIONAL (WBI)

Agency in charge of the international valorization of the talent of francophone Belgian artists living in Wallonia and Brussels.

Belgo Comics 2022 is an initiative of Wallonia-Brussels International, in collaboration with the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and independent Belgian comic publishers.

Contacts WBI: Marie-Eve Tossani (me.tossani@wbi.be) Contacts FWB: Bruno Merckx (bruno.merckx@cfwb.be), Silvie Philippart de Foy (silvie.philippart@cfwb.be) Graphic design: Alexia de Visscher Coordination: Matthias Rozes and Juliette Framorando Translation: Thibault Saillant

Book launches and encounters, books and comics by French-speaking Belgian authors and publishers.

46, rue Quincampoix, 75004 Paris +33 1 42 71 58 03 librairie.wb@orange.fr - www.librairiewb.com

ESA ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES BEAUX-ARTS DE LIÈGE

Bachelor and Master in Comics.

Rue des Anglais 21, 4000 Liège www.esalv.be

ESA SAINT-LUC BRUSSELS

Bachelor and Master in Comics and Publishing.

Place Louis Morichar 30, 1060 Bruxelles +32 2 533 08 80 http://www.stluc-bruxelles-esa.be

SCHOOL FOR GRAPHIC RESEARCH (ERG)

Bachelor and Master in Comics and Publishing.

Rue du Page 87, 1050 Bruxelles http://www.erg.be

ESA SAINT-LUC LIÈGE

Bachelor in Comics.

Bd de la Constitution 41, 4020 Liège https://www.saint-luc.be

ESA FINE ARTS ACADEMY TOURNAI

Bachelor and Master in Comics.

Rue de l’Hôpital Notre-Dame 14, 7500 Tournai www.actournai.be

NAMUR FINE ARTS ACADEMY

Artistic education with reduced schedule.

Rue du Lombard 20, 5000 Namur academie.beauxarts@gmail.com

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by Tommi Musturi

LA 5e COUCHE

Comic books are a contemporary art form among others. La 5e Couche holds it and its readers in high esteem. 5C is interested in everything related to comic book, although it also tends to depart from it. Its

Trufje

Cracking

978-2-39008-075-6 25 € 132 pages - CMYK 24 × 34 cm September 2021

TOMMI MUSTURI

978-2-39008-078-7 15 € 52 pages - B/W 15 × 15 cm January 2022

field of action is, by definition, porous and unlimited.

5C structures. 5C sets up conditions to make creation possible. 5C’s books are its manifesto.

Depuis un crâne

978-2-39008-080-0 25 € 56 pages - Bichro 32 × 28 cm March 2022

L.L. DE MARS & GWLADYS LE CUFF

CHANIC

Hors collection

Hors collection

Gwladys Le Cuff is an art historian.

She gets hold of L.L. de Mars’ epistemological experiment and turns it into her own subject of study, her own work of art.

Chanic provides infinite variations on one unforgettable scene, a picture that originally praised tenacity and was already an iteration.

Cracking is a survey of Tommi Musturi’s graphic works since 2013, encompassing a wide array of media.

It features his own personal visual creations, press illustrations, album covers, sketches, pixel art, and more.

La Marque jaune Roman

978-2-39008-083-1 10 € 124 pages - B/W 13,5 × 18,5 cm April 2022

EDGAR P. JACOBS Collection Essaim

Le titre ne convient pas

MARTIN LOPEZ LAM Hors collection

TÉTSHIM & FRANK MUKUNDAY Hors collection

Machini reveals the deadly consequences of mineral exploitation and depicts the pollution and destruction of human being by human being.

Hors collection

20 € 160 pages - CMYK 20,5 × 30 cm April 2022

Machini

978-2-39008-056-5 20 € 72 pages - CMYK 24 × 32 cm March 2022

Before starting his story board, Jacobs wrote his script in the form of a text with a literary feel… From the outset, this text highlighted the redundancy between the dialogue and the description of the actions. In the end, a good part of this text was kept in the narrative.

Voyage accompagné

978-2-39008-064-0 30 € 54 pages - CMYK 22 × 32 cm May 2022

DORIANE MILLET Collection f.

This book parallels the themes of travel and couple life. Each stage of the journey is a metaphor to describe the many phases in a love relationship. The couple is set in a symbolic universe, both contemporary and timeless.

Le titre ne correspond pas draws on connections between objects and ideas that are distant in time and space, but all eventually bring us to an inhospitable, nocturnal place.

La 5e Couche - address: Avenue des Tropiques 2, 1190 Bruxelles - email: info@5c.be - website: www.5c.be

L’Enfant prodige

978-2-39008-081-7 20 € 228 pages - B/W 13,2 × 18,8 cm June 2022

MICHAEL KUPPERMAN Hors collection

Joel Kupperman was the child prodigy, the nice Yankee boy from World War II, famous in every American household thanks to his spot-on appearances on the famous show Quiz Kids. He solved math problems in no time, but no one could help him find the solution to another issue: what he would do when he grows old.

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by Mortis Ghost

L’EMPLOYÉ DU MOI

Founded by comic book artists in Brussels at the turn of the 2000’s, L’employé du moi is a publishing house that offers a variety of eclectic projects dedicated to indie comics. From intimate chronicles of wild adventure stories to unbridled science fiction tales, L’employé du moi’s books invariably, but sensitively,

Pour l’amour de l’Art

978-2-39004-086-6 7€ 52 pages - B/W 13 × 22,5 cm August 2021

NOAH VAN SCIVER Hors collection

For Art’s Sake is a follow-up to My Hot Date, in which the author was already questioning his relation to the world in an autobiographical narrative. Here, the storyline begins a few years after adolescence and focuses on the ridiculous side of life.

Although he matured, Van Sciver remains obsessed with his selfimage.

Le Soleil des mages

978-2-39004-094-1 18 € 96 pages - CMYK 17 × 21,5 cm April 2022

MORTIS GHOST Hors collection

While it takes the form of a casual cheerful road trip, Mortis Ghost’s new book inevitably calls to mind a well-known fantasy tale. However, the author’s take on this worldfamous saga deprives it of its epic charge, bringing back heroic fantasy on dry land.

20 KM/H

978-2-390040-88-0 25 € 376 pages - B/W 13,5 × 18,5 cm October 2021

WOSHIBAI Hors collection

The short, silent stories gathered in 20 KM/H are appealing to both poetry and philosophy. Some are imbued with vivid onirism, others tend to be more pragmatic; but all make for a fascinating read, thanks to the sensitivity and the singularity of this young Chinese author’s clear line.

Spa

address adolescent themes. As if the transition to adulthood, and everything it stands for, would turn into fertile ground for storytelling.

Fante Bukowski L’Œuvre complète

978-2-39004-090-3 30 € 448 pages - CMYK 14 × 20,5 cm October 2021

NOAH VAN SCIVER Hors collection

Young Noah Van Sciver launched his career with this character of a failed writer. Now, he’s a prominent figure on the American independent comics scene. The Complete works of Fante Bukowski collect all three volumes, with forewords by Alex W. Inker, and unpublished material.

978-2-39004-092-7 18 € 80 pages - B/W 18 × 26 cm February 2022

Michel La fin, les moyens, tout ça…

PIERRE MAUREL Hors collection

Pierre Maurel’s favorite character Michel is back for a fourth adventure, this time in large-size format. The change of scenery did him good: he seems to be braver than ever, although it doesn’t take much to see the old grouch resurface!

978-2-39004-096-5 26 € 328 pages - B/W 17 × 24 cm June 2022

ERIK SVETOFT Hors collection

A mysterious water damage spreads in a luxury hotel spa.

People disappear without a trace.

A man gets lost looking for his room. A couple struggles to escape the horror of everyday life. A nightmarish tale by Erik Svetoft, the cursed child of Swedish comics.

L’employé du Moi - address: Rue du Progrès 409, 1030 Bruxelles - email: info@employe-du-moi.org - website: http://employe-du-moi.org - facebook.com/employe.du.moi

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by Dominique Goblet

FRÉMOK

Le Frémok is an associative structure fueled by the energy of its volunteers, a UFO in the domain of graphic literatures, a platform launching the most radical experiments, crossing genre-boundaries, blurring the boundaries between poetry and politics. It fosters new perspectives on the world by combining visual

Mad Maxi-Jack

narration, outsider art, philosophical thinking, youth literature, comics, contemporary art, and demonical serials. It believes in collective work, in life as well as in books, and above all in beautiful books. That is why it will survive the death of book itself.

978-2-39022-025-1 34 € 424 pages - CMYK 28 × 15,5 cm June 2021

ÉTIENNE BECK

978-2-39022-028-2 32 € 88 pages - CMYK 32 × 23,8 cm December 2021

Collection Amphigouri

Ostende

An Apocalypse gamebook in which you’ll have to fight against fishmen, ultraviolent punks, superbosses, and take bold–or completely crazy– decisions to avoid over a hundred gruesome deaths and find one of the twenty happy endings planned by Étienne Beck.

Derrière - Volume 1 DOMINIQUE GOBLET

978-2-39022-027-5 32 € 104 pages - CMYK 27 × 38 cm August 2021 I Am the Eye Climax PAKITO BOLINO ET PASCAL LEYDER Knock Outsider

The graphic pile-up of underground publishing figure Pakito Bolino and Pascal Leyder, resident artist at “S” Grand Atelier, an art center for the mentally handicapped. I Am The Eye Climax is an exquisite corpse in which dripping creatures, horror magazines, and naked women blend in a devilish atmosphere.

Fictions modestes

Montrez-nous qu’on a tort

978-2-39022-026-8 20 € 92 pages - CMYK 24 × 32 cm November 2021

GÉRALDINE STRINGER Collection Amphigouri

Géraldine draws while men and women speak about what they’ve been through, or, on the contrary, hide it. In the hinterland of Nice, Hubert became an outlaw by offering them hospitality. Their words and their silence teach us that there’s power in the way we look at things, that refusing despair is a courageous act.

978-2-39022-031-2 34 € 224 pages - CMYK 23 × 30 cm April 2022

La « S » Grand Atelier au MIAM l’aventure utopique d’une humanité sans marges.

Catalogue de l’exposition éponyme présentée au Musée International des Arts Modestes - Sète - du 17 février au 18 septembre 2022.

ANNE-FRANÇOISE ROUCHE ET NOËLIG LE ROUX Knock Outsider

This publication chronicles the human and artistic history of an art center that accompanies artists with mental disability.

Beyond clichés, “S” Grand Atelier supports demanding art through diversity policies and the bursting of categories in gathering both contemporary and outsider artists. Catalogue of the eponymous exhibition held at Musée International des Arts Modestes – Sète – from February 17 to September 18, 2022.

Ostende Carnets

978-2-39022-030-5 22 € 124 pages - CMYK 17 × 23,8 cm January 2022

DOMINIQUE GOBLET Collection Amphigouri

These sketchbooks bring together the missing pieces of the puzzle that is Ostend. Formal research, objects, textures, accidents: all drift to abstraction, disclose what happens behind the scenes of peaceful Ostend. The characters’ secret life is shown in greater detail, described in transcript form.

978-2-39022-029-9 25 € 88 pages - CMYK 24 × 32 cm March 2022 Malgré une fin proche PAZ BOÏRA Collection Amphigouri

This silent work portrays the life of a couple in a burning world, haunted by past and future catastrophes.

Their thoughts drift away, nightmares and visions intrude: humans and animals dying by the flames or communing in a lyrical ode to wildlife.

Frémok - address: Rue de l’Instruction 51, 1070 Bruxelles - email: thierry@fremok.org - website: www.fremok.org

Collection Amphigouri

Behind the levee, in a farm, on a beach, a ceremony is being prepared. Ostend is ready to burst, inhabited by hypotheses, flesh and abstractions. We make the acquaintance of Irene, who likes to undress in the open, under the male gaze, to see and to reveal what’s boiling under the surface of things.

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by Jacques Samson & Benoît Peeters

LES IMPRESSIONS NOUVELLES

The publisher of Aurélia Aurita, Frédéric Boilet and Jimmy Beaulieu, Les Impressions Nouvelles also offers many essays on comics and graphic novels, considered as key tools for a better understanding of the general mechanisms, the history and the current

978-2-87449-890-9 24 € 400 pages - B/W 15,5 × 22 cm August 2021

Edgar P. Jacobs Un pacte avec Blake et Mortimer

978-2-87449-921-0 36 € 616 pages - CMYK 16,25 × 23 cm November 2021

BENOÎT MOUCHART & FRANÇOIS RIVIÈRE

Hergé et la presse Ses bandes dessinées dans les journaux du monde entier

Collection Traverses

GEOFFROY KURSNER

Featuring rare documents and unpublished interviews, this biography sheds light on the discreet, insecure, and charming personality of Edgar P. Jacobs, who has well earned his place in the pantheon of comic books.

Collection Réflexions faites

De Blueberry à L'Incal Lire Giraud/Mœbius

This essay gives a detailed and chronological account of Hergé’s comics publication history in periodicals (over 300) worldwide (more than 40 countries). The volume teems with new information and features numerous illustrations, rare or never seen before.

stakes of visual narrative. Founded in 1985 and having already published more than 400 books, Les Impressions Nouvelles focuses on readability, social and intellectual commitment and the love of attractive vulgarization.

978-2-87449-929-6 29 € 192 pages - CMYK 20 × 24 cm January 2022 Chris Ware La bande dessinée réinventée JACQUES SAMSON & BENOÎT PEETERS Collection Réflexions faites

The reference publication on the greatest comic book artist alive, recipient of the 2021 Grand Prix d’Angoulême. Richly illustrated with rare and unpublished visual documents, this first monograph in French provides multiple perspectives on an already impressive body of work, yet still in the making.

Albert Robina De la satire à l’anticipation

SOUS LA DIRECTION DE CLAIRE BAREL-MOISAN ET MATTHIEU LETOURNEUX Collection Réflexions faites

A contemporary of Jules Verne, Robiba was a visionary writer and illustrator, who envisioned the 20th century like no other. A richly illustrated reference book.

978-2-87449-924-1 23 € 336 pages - B/W 14,5 × 21 cm January 2022

JEAN-CLET MARTIN Collection Réflexions faites

The aim of this book is to offer both a complete and original interpretation of Giraud/Mœbius’s work through the lens of his two major series: Blueberry and The Incal.

978-2-87449-940-1 13 € 144 pages - B/W 13 × 19 cm March 2022

Collection LA FABRIQUE DES HÉROS

With cheerful erudition, the “Fabrique des Héros” series (“The Heroes’ Factory”) does not seek to look back at the life of a character and is not meant to be a fan’s Bible either. In a hundred pages, each

978-2-87449-920-3 28 € 360 pages - B/W 17 × 24 cm January 2022

issue presents itself in the form of an encounter between an author and a pop culture hero or heroine. Simply put, it offers both a journey and a rediscovery.

Milou Humain, trop humain RENAUD NATTIEZ

Collection La Fabrique des Héros

Much more than the companion or the shadow of his master, Snowy is an essential part of Hergé’s work.

Snowy appears in the first illustrated vignette of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, and is the last of the Tintin family to express himself in the unfinished and final volume, Tintin and Alph-Art.

Les Impressions Nouvelles - address: Avenue de la Jonction 51-53, 1190 Bruxelles - email: info@lesimpressionsnouvelles.com - website: www.lesimpressionsnouvelles.com

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by Benoît Lacroix

ÉDITIONS DU TIROIR

Éditions du Tiroir are sustaining the rich heritage of French-speaking comics and helping contemporary authors as well as future ones to promote their work in the best conditions. Éditions du Tiroir intends to

978-2-931027-24-0 16 € 64 pages - CMYK 22,7 × 30,7 cm March 2021

La Soupe au sang Et autres scènes mortelles du quotidien BENOI Classique

Sometimes everything goes wrong.

Tragedy is near, fear sets in. Often, Death is so close that we can hear it cringe. It can happen to anyone. In these eight short, dense and dark stories, we don’t always know if there’s a glimmer of hope left.

Caroline Baldwin

978-2-931027-35-6 14,50 € 48 pages - CMYK 22,7 × 30,7 cm September 2021

Double dames

offer a solid, reliable framework to creators, using methods inspired by “big” publishers, while innovating and remaining a small structure.

Timothée Octave Wang

MARC WASTERLAIN

LUC WARNANT

Caroline and Roxane have planned to meet up at the ski resort where Roxane works as a guide. She had an appointment scheduled with two clients, a father and his son, but they suddenly decided to cancel the hike.

Despite that, Roxane decides to go hiking by herself. Then why does she stumble upon the son on the hiking trail? Caroline, for her part, is held up in Quebec. What trap awaits our friends?

Timothée Octave Wang, a Tibetan scholar with the ability to solve mysteries thanks to his supernatural gifts, embarks on wild adventures with Professor Lafouille and his nephew Philbert. The Living Statue is the second and last volume in the “Timothée O. Wang” series. This edition is presented in a restored version following the author’s original instructions.

La Révolte des esclave NICO VAN DE WALLE Ger Monastry

978-2-931027-49-3 18 € 96 pages - CMYK 17,5 × 24,5 cm March 2022

JACQ Roman graphique

His last memory is the sight of the Blue Tower at Sükhbaatar Square in Ulaanbaatar. However, when he wakes up, he’s in a monastery close to Russia. There’s also these inscriptions in Tibetan and Cyrillic characters… Peter Jennings is in Mongolia. But what is he doing here?

The last remaining monk at the Ger Monastery will help unravel this mystery, in his own special way.

Classique

Classique

Eden

978-2-931027-37-0 14,50 € 48 pages - CMYK 22,7 × 30,7 cm September 2021

Chroniques d’autres mondes

Classique

Adelin et Irina

The capital of the Amazon Empire is thrilled with joy: Her Highness the Imperatrix is going to celebrate her 11th birthday, for the greatest pleasure of her subjects. But not everyone is in a festive mood…

On the other side of the political spectrum, the sinister Baroness Ulcera intends to overthrow the power that be.

Tucker

La Statue vivante

ANDRÉ TAYMANS

978-2-931027-45-5 16 € 64 pages - CMYK 22,7 × 30,7 cm January 2022

Classique

978-2-931027-36-3 14,50 € 48 pages - CMYK 22,7 × 30,7 cm September 2021

978-2-931027-47-9 15 € 48 pages - CMYK 22,7 × 30,7 cm June 2022

Une saison au enfer ANDRÉ TAYMANS Classique

A Season in the Underworld is the second part of this miniseries started with Return to the Lost World. Our group of hippies carries on its quest, but the search for Eden is much more complicated than expected. Once there, the waking dream quickly turns into a nightmare as they face prehistoric creatures.

Tucker lands his superb FZ-105 on a distant planet. He’s been called on a mission by the natives to fetch spare parts at the Bantan junkyard, but his plans change when he makes an unexpected encounter: Anja, flanked

by Tao, a little man with a martial look. She asks Tucker for help, and trouble begins.

Kid Cassonade

978-2-931027-5-16 15 € 48 pages - CMYK 22,7 × 30,7 cm June 2022

BALOO ET BLATTE Roman jeunesse

The boat carrying taxidermist Lord Appelpie’s collection of living animals has been wrecked. Lady Appelpie managed to escape.

Her husband and their baby have disappeared. The animals and the baby end up on a deserted island.

Carnivores and vegetarians must survive and get along. The baby, Kid Casonada, is their only hope of leaving the island.

Éditions du Tiroir asbl - address: Clos du Champ d’Abeiche 5, 1420 Braine-L’Alleud - email: christian@editions-du-tiroir.be - website: www.editions-du-tiroir.be

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64_PAGE

The great authors of tomorrow are already in 64_ page. This magazine launched in 2014 wishes to provide a springboard for young authors by offering them a creative space. A place for them to confront their readers and show off their storytelling skills, with no limits set for the techniques and topics.

Since its inception, 64_page has published about 125 projects from 125 authors.

At times, 64_page focuses on specific themes, such as issue #22, dedicated to “crime fiction”. The aim is to stimulate creativity among authors, young and not so young. Our slogan could be “The magazine for authors from 14 to 64 years old”. Our youngest authors, Ines and Daran, are 14, Michel is 64…

Only the quality of the graphic story motivates us!

978-2-94075-100-9 9,50 € 64 pages - CMYK 17 × 23 cm December 2021

64_page

64_page #22

LES SCÉNARISTES

Spécial Polar

Divers

Divers

Comics – or children’s books – closely combine a drawing and a narrative. Both are important, and the deficiency of one undeniably weakens the other. This introduction to the work of the greatest comics writers is part of our role as cultural transmitters.

978-2-940721-08-5 12,50 € 128 pages - CMYK 17 × 23 cm Février 2022

28 hard-hitting short stories to shake up the crime fiction of yesterday, today, and after-tomorrow. from deep dark to acid-colored, from the bloodiest to the most off-beat tales…

34 talented writers, aged 14 to 64, coming from five EU countries.

64_page (Ti Malis asbl) - address: Rue de Roumanie 10, 1060 Bruxelles - email: 64page.revuebd@gmail.com - website: www.64page.com - Instagram: @64_page

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by Guillaume Bouges

L’APPÂT

L’Appât is an artisanal print studio created in 2013 by Rebecca Rosen and Quentin Pillot, two print-loving illustrators. Using silkscreen and letterpress printing techniques, L’Appât publishes handmade books and prints in limited editions.

Small Tragedies

During the course of residencies in the print studio, illustrators and cartoonists are invited to participate in every stage of the production process. For many of these artists-in-residence, it is their first experience with artisanal printing. The featured books below are a small sample of the L'Appât catalogue.

10 € 12 pages - Silkscreen 20 × 20 cm January 2022 Heartache Inn

REBECCA ROSEN

“It’s not the large things that send a man to the madhouse. death he’s ready for, or murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood… no, it’s the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhouse… ” — Charles Bukowski, The Shoelace

Chiribim

20 € 18 pages - Silkscreen 22 × 31 cm March 2022

NADIA BERZ

This book illustrated with pencil drawings interprets the lyrics to the popular Yiddish song Chiribim, a both absurd and playful tune. The edition includes the score from the Barry Sisters’ version. Book with cover flaps, printed in duotone.

Trouble fête

15 € 24 pages - Silkscreen 30 × 45 cm April 2022

GUILLAUME BOUGES

Trouble fête follows the adventures of two friends in a futuristic universe blending surrealism with disorder.

This book takes us on a joyful and chaotic stroll with exalting hints of freedom.

L’Appât - address: Rue de Laeken 122, 1000 Bruxelles - email: lappatelier@gmail.com - website: https://lappatelier.com

25 € 24 pages - Silkscreen 15 × 30 cm June 2022

JAMIYLA LOWE

Canadian artist Jamiyla Lowe is known for her futuristic and psychedelic universe depicting monstrous characters in their everyday life. Heartache Inn plays with codes of tourist brochure to tell the story of a budget hotel chain reconverted into a place of accommodation for people recovering from recent tragedies.

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by Hell’O collective

CFC-ÉDITIONS

Maison CFC is developing a project with two complementary components: editorial activity and a bookshop's daily life.

Its policy of publishing, distribution and promotion of books as well as the running of the bookshop is reflected in the publication of works and the organisation of events such as exhibitions, conferences, meetings, workshops, guided tours, concerts and performances. Its primary aim is to promote the heritage, creativity and artistic life of Brussels and French-speaking literature.

978-2-87572-078-8 12 € 10 pages - CMYK 25 × 33 cm 2022

978-2-87572-077-1 22 € 136 pages - CMYK 17 × 24 cm 2022

Elle est où la fête ? Where’s the party at? Waar is da feestje?

Reste avec moi

HELL’O COLLECTIVE

MASSON-SQUARCI

7|107

7|107

With its trilingual title, this leporello sets the tone for universality. On the eve of Summer, a bunch of characters join together in a single movement on their way to a great celebration, where they honor the return of the sun with music and dance. A coloring leporello version is also included.

Florence’s relationship with her daughter is one of complicity and mutual affection. Yet when she recalls her own relationship with her mother, she realizes that a feeling of abandonment prevailed during her childhood. Nothing has been resolved up until now, and this feeling became a disturbance in her daily life. She nevertheless tries to reconnect with her mother…

CFC-Éditions - address: Maison CFC (éditions & librairie), Place des Martyrs 14, 1000 Bruxelles - email: info@maisoncfc.be - website: www.maisoncfc.be

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by Maxime Gillot

The BLOW BOOK is a new window of expression, in small format and at a low price. The author is in charge of his publication from front to back cover. He also oversees the artistic direction and thus makes his mark. The BLOW BOOK format as well as its first content was conceived by Alfred Mazure, the author of BLOW BOOK #1: JIU-JITSU. The book, the size of a deck of cards, fits in a pocket and can be passed from hand to hand. Its format is neither that of a COMIC BOOK, nor a FUMETTI, nor a MANGA, nor a MANHUA, nor a GRAPHIC NOVEL… No label can reduce it to a specific genre or audience. There are no collection guidelines other than the physical limits of size and paging: 7.6 x 11.6 cm, 224 pages. Eight titles are available, notably via a network of vending machines.

BLOW BOOK

5€ 224 pages 7,6 × 11,6 cm September 2021

5€ 224 pages 7,6 × 11,6 cm September 2021

5 € 224 pages 7,6 × 11,6 cm September 2021

5€ 224 pages 7,6 × 11,6 cm September 2021

BLOW BOOK N° 5 Pluton

BLOW BOOK N° 6 Autopsie d’un dépressif

BLOW BOOK N° 7 La Comète

BLOW BOOK N° 8 Recherches

QUENTIN ROUX

JEAN BOURGUIGNON

MAXIME GILLOT

JEAN-MICHEL MEYERS, PHILIPPE CAPART, LUCIEN DE ROECK

A book where the reader is the sole protagonist of his own story. Quentin Roux’s first silent creation, with coloring by Dimitri Piot (author of BLOW BOOK #2: SALARYMAN) and Manuel at the maieutic (author of BLOW BOOK #4: AU TRAVAIL).

Suicide can be the work of an entire life.

A voluble account in which Jean Bourguignon removes any trace of reality in his fiction. Or is he removing any trace of fiction in his reality?

Maxime Gillot’s first publication slips our eye into an electric pinball machine. A narrative made legible by the juxtaposition of images. Life as well as meaning are held by movement. A silent science fiction story.

BLOW BOOK - address: Galerie Bortier 16, 1000 Bruxelles contact: + 32 2 514 14 92 / +32 474 42 06 42 - email:blowbook.eu@gmail.com - website: www.blowbook.eu - facebook et instagram: @blowbook.eu

Sketch by sketch, draft by draft, the “makingof” of selected works by graphic designer Lucien De Roeck (1915–2002), including the iconic “Expo 58” star logo. A trilingual heritage monograph by Jean-Michel Meyers and Philippe Capart.

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by Robin Hendrix

BRUMEVILLE

One day, when there was nothing left to drink, Docteur Lunet, Thomas Vermeire and Aniss El Hamouri got lost in the fog. Ever since, there have been rumors of a city arising from the mist. Brumeville is not a city characterized by the anecdotes crawling between its buildings, but rather by the rhythm of its breath, undetectable, federative, chaotic. It is the ground for

Head/Body/Feet

3 x 21 pages Digital B/W 2022

GABRI MOLIST & POM KOO

Meditations

all kinds of rumors that birth strange urban legends.

Since 2017 Brumeville is publishing stories, dreams, visions, and conspiracy theories, mostly in comic books. It will be dissolved in 2023 for reasons that are still unknown.

24 pages Digital color 2022

ROBIN HENDRIX

An inner story about abandonment of thought and self-discovery.

Gabri Molist and Pom Koo are relentlessly looking for the ideal guy.

Maybe without realizing it, they’ve already found him. Here is a set of three fanzines to create “mannekes” and get all you can from them.

Dipôle

1€ 2 pages - Digital B/W 10,5 x 14,8 cm 2022

DOCTEUR LUNET Dipôle

Dipole. A series of comic strips in two panels.

Brumeville - address: Avenue Everard 35, 1190 Bruxelles - email: allobrumeville@gmail.com - facebook: facebook.com/brumeville

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FORGERIES - EN 3000 ÉDITIONS

Our desire to publish comes from the will to put collective dreams on paper, stories to (better) live together, narratives of hope which will help us to inhabit this world differently. Using fiction allows us to escape the real, to make room for imagination and to reinvent both reality and the present time.

En 3000 éditions stirs up our ideas and our possibilities; it’s not about denouncing or fleeing the world’s upheaval. We must make proposals, invent stories and project ourselves into the future to take a different look at the present.

La Grande Utö ÉLÉONORE SCARDONI

Utö emerged from the water a long time ago. Today, new settlers have come to visit it. These visitors will be affected body and soul. They’ll have no other choice than to transform, to fit in the landscape, because, in the island within, life exists. On this island, the deafening silence of the deserted sceneries intermingles with the voiceless tumult of the story’s protagonists.

978-2-9602242-2-1 23 € 128 pages - CMYK 21 × 32 cm 2021

Forgeries - address: Rue Cervantès 66 Bte 6, 1190 Bruxelles - email: forgeries.eras@gmail.com - website: https://forgeries.be - instagram et facebook: @forgeries.eras

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by Eliot Vandenheede

MAISON AUTRIQUE

Maison Autrique, Victor Horta’s first building of note, is a milestone in Brussels’ architectural heri­ tage. For a century, it remained a private dwel­ling.

Maison Autrique owes its complete restoration and opening to the public to comics. Indeed, the imagery of “The Obscure Cities” series created by F. Schuiten & B. Peeters presided over the rebirth of the building.

Based on this specific example, we have designed publications dedicated to cultural heritage in all its forms, seen through the lens of the comic book medium.

978-2-9601963-6-8 12 € 64 pages Digital color 22 × 27,7 cm October 2021

COLLECTION KRONIKAS

Kronikas

Kronikas is a publication dedicated to cultural heritage in all its forms, but more especially to the fictions and reveries that emerged from the relationship one has with its architectural, musical, social, historical environment… Kronikas invites you to an imaginary inventory.

Numéro spécial Trains

Kronikas #5

978-2-9601963-5-1 15 € 192 pages - CMYK 21,5 × 26,7 cm October 2021

L’inventaire imaginaire

COLLECTIF

COLLECTIF

Quadri

Quadri

In the trepidation of the journey, in the smoke, in the wind and rain that crosses the cabin, we become completely one with the engine, we see the energy that moves these heavy trains. And it is then at the same time a wonder, a frightening fascination and an immense admiration for these lords of the railways.

Kronikas is a territory that shows itself, cities that explore their past and question their future, with the constant concern of sharing with as many people as possible what brings us together. Awareness of the value of heritage in comics must be in all its diversity. Our mission is to cover all the facets of this heritage.

Maison Autrique - address: Chaussée de Haecht 266, 1030 Bruxelles

contact: +32 2 215 66 00 - email: info@autrique.be - website: www.autrique.be

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by Léa Jarrin, Jean-Baptiste Geze & Loraine Ami

DU NOIR SOUS LES ONGLES ÉDITIONS

Du Noir sous les ongles Éditions stems from the meeting of three oddballs who wished to question social relationships through stories and illustrations. Driven by the desire to gather and exchange, they publish books with critical viewpoints with a touch of causticity and humor.

L’Évasion

979-1-06994-786-3 18 € 96 pages - Bichro 17 × 24 cm 2020

ÉTIENNE MARTINET, WILHEM DE BAERDEMAKER, YVAN FERNANDO ZAMORA

At the Dispositif Relais, people extend a helping hand to those who were sentenced to jail, to those who could have been sentenced to, to those who don't want to go there. It's been a few years that Wilhem and Fernando organise a theatre action workshop with them.

They also met Étienne, who draws everything that happens.

Des Tensions, their fith play, went on tour in Italy. Here's its story.

978-2-9602891-0-7 18 € 144 pages - CMYK 17 × 24 cm 2021

Les Oubliés de la nation Enquête sur l’extrême droite en Belgique francophone

LÉA JARRIN, JEAN-BAPTISTE GEZE, LORAINE AMI

In late 2019, 3 french students set out to meet far right activists in Wallonia. Schisms, “cordon sanitaire” in place and pitiful results in the last federal election... Belgian democracy hasn’t much to fear. Between the muddy past of those movements and their internal conflicts, these youths discover the vices of those party.

Room Tour

978-2-9602891-1-4 12 € 80 pages Com color 14,5 × 16 cm

KANE MOONEY

Don’t read this comic book as a containment diary, such as the ones you’ve seen back in March and April 2020. Think of it more as that stranger who sits next to you on the train and starts ranting nonsense.

Du noir sous les ongles Éditions - address: Avenue Van Volxem 299, 1190 Forest - email: dunoirsouslesongles@gmail.com - website: www.du-noir-sous-les-ongles.fr facebook & instagram: @dunoirsouslesongles

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by Davor Gromilovic

ÉDITIONS VITE

Vite prioritizes the joy of creating, therefore our books feature a set of eclectic visual languages and intense individuality, reflecting the many facets of one common theme. We are here to offer artists the agonizing

18 € 16 pages Risographie 21 × 29 cm August 2021 La Supplication DENNIS MARIEN

This wordless book tells a simple story: that of a long and hard journey, and a horrifying welcome upon arrival.

independence of creation. Vite is a publishing house for young authors, exploring any visual and narrative art.

17 € 40 pages - Digital color 21 × 29 cm November 2021

25 € 80 pages - Digital color 29 × 42 cm January 2022

Greetings from Trantalia

Carnets méditerranéens

DAVOR GROMILOVIC

DAVID WAUTIER

A journey into the worlds of Serbian artist Davor Gromilovic. His exquisite drawings recall childhood memories as much as the fear of the surrounding world.

David never ceases to amaze us with his travel notebooks. For the third edition of his “open-air drawings”, he takes us on a trip to the Mediterranean.

17 € 24 pages Risographie 19 × 24 cm February 2022

Horizontales Bouba Verticales Kiki

NINA COSCO ET JANA VASILJEVIC

Jana and Nina speak only through their drawings. Each one took the other’s work as a source of inspiration to create drawings and texts. A startling dialogue.

Éditions Vite - contact: Dennis Marien, vite.un.contact@gmail.com - website: http://editionsvite.tumblr.com

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POIL DANS LA MAIN

Éditions Poil dans la main is a self-publishing structure based in Liège since 1999. It primarily publishes fanzines from single authors or collectives, of all sizes and shapes, be it autobiographical or simply illustrative.

Tranche de quartier

30 € 12 pages Digital B/W 21 × 24 cm 2021

FIFI Hors collection

This long leporello puzzle book challenges readers to find several elements within a city landscape.

Poil dans la main - address: Rue Jolivet 30, 4000 Liège - contact: Philippe Sadzot +32 494 058 443 email: atelieranous@skynet.be - instagram: @philippesadzot

5€ 8 pages Silkscreen 10,5 × 14,8 cm 2022 Meurs Chien FIFI Collection fanzine

A series of small-sized 8-pages books with short absurd stories about warfare.

Les Années zines

16 € 120 pages Silkscreen 10,5 × 14,8 cm 2022

FIFI Hors collection

A user’s guide for fanzines taking the form of a comic book, encased in a box set edition featuring 10 notebooks.

Each of the notebooks focuses on one aspect of fanzine’s production: format, printing, page layout, binding… For all ages.

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by Gabri Molist

ESPACE DE LITTÉRATURES ILLUSTRÉES

Since 2017, the ELI association (Espace des Littérature Illustrées) has been bringing together the protagonists of Brussels’ graphic design scene. ELI is located within the Camille Lemonnier house, along with two libraries and an exhibition space. The association’s members organize meetings, workshops or other activities related to their profession as authors, publishers and artists. At the heart of this project, the “Ateliers du Toner” (Toner’s Workshops) are a cooperative self-publishing space dedicated to coeducation,

Léo et les oiseaux

18,00 € 21 pages Risographie 27 × 36 cm March 2021

ANNA SOUGY

Captured by birds, Leo waits to be rescued. In the meantime, he sinks into despair.

Néant brûlant

transmission of knowledge and resource sharing, enabling authors to self-publish by taking part in the making process. After a brief training session, members have access to equipment allowing them to produce a publication from A to Z (computers, scanners, printers, engraving materials, paper cutters, gluing machines, staplers, etc.).

“Paratoner” is Toner’s distro. It displays the workshop’s creations in festivals and book fairs, from fanzines to reviews, comic books and oddities.

20,00 € 200 pages Com color 14,8 × 21 cm June 2021

SYLVAIN BRILLAULT

Sylvain Brillault reflects on Love and its endless ins and outs. He felt compelled to write, to collect love, to put it into words, to capture it through text, to provide images and scribbled drawings at the whim of the senses.

Espace de Littératures Illustrées - address: Chaussée de Wavre 150, 1050 Bruxelles

25,00 € 56 pages Risographie 21 × 29,7 cm November 2021

La Jégende de saint Julien l’Hospitalier K.K.RO

The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller is an adaptation of the eponymous tale by Gustave Flaubert. It chronicles the ascent of a Saint, in the manner of a medieval fable.

contact: +32 222 568 828 - email: association.eli@gmail.com - website: http://ateliersdutoner.com - facebook & instagram: @ateliersdutoner