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"Je t'aime" & "To Be or Not To Be" Ben Aalbers. Enzinck, Willem. BEN AALBERS AND THE ART OF CALLIGRAPHY. [SN11991] $50 Lahnstein, Germany: Calatra, nd. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 96pp, b&w, wraps. VF. Inscribed by the artist. A showcase of the work of the Dutch calligraphic artist. Text in English, French, & German.
Yoshitoshi Abe. YOSHITOSHI ABE LAIN ILLUSTRATIONS. [SN19383] $60 Tokyo: Wanimagazine, 2005. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 160pp, color and b&w, boards. VF in VF illustrated slip case. A collection of color illustrations by this contemporary Japanese manga artist/illustrator. The pencil versions are sometimes reproduced opposite the finished versions and a chapter of pencil drawings finishes the volume. Text in Japanese. Pierre Alary The Belladone Trilogy
Preview the opening pages of this album Pierre Alary. Ange, BELLADONE TOME 1: MARIE. [SN23216X] $29 Toulon: Soleil, 2004. 4to (11-13"), 48pp, color, pictorial boards. Fine. This French album is a beauty. Set in 1680 Paris (the era of the three musketeers), this rousing adventure is the story of Marie, code name Belladone, a beautiful female spy seeking to thwart the assassination of Louis XIV. Pierre Alary is a former animator at Disney's studio in France. (He was one of the animators of Tarzan under Glen Keane.) This is his third French album. His work is fluid and nimble and full of charm. And these strengths are multiplied with a beautiful long-haired heroine and the billowy fashions of the era. Text in French.
Pierre Alary. Ange, BELLADONE TOME 2: MAXIME. [SN20588X] $29 Toulon: Soleil, 2005. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 48pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. Marie and Maxime pursue the would-be assassin of Louis XIV who escaped them at the end of Tome 1. Like the first volume, this volume has several great action sequences. Text in French.
Pierre Alary. Ange, BELLADONE TOME 3: LOUIS. [SN23205X] $29 Toulon: Soleil, 2007. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 48pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. With the King's musketeers after her, Marie must act alone and in secret in the conclusion of the Belladone saga. Can she get close enough to the King to prevent his assassination" This volume, like the others, has several great action sequences. Text in French.
Pierre Alary. ALARY SKETCHBOOK (COMIX BURO). [SN27727X] $30 Paris: Comix Buro, 2009. 1st. 8vo (8-9"), 48pp, color, wraps. VF. One of the first 900 copies which are numbered & signed by the artist. A new collection of drawings, character designs, and color renderings by one of our favorite artists. Some lovely color pieces of Belladone created for prints, ex-libris, and promotion. Sketches and drawings of Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four, Echaudeurs, Moby Dick, and other miscellaneous subjects. And some autobiographical comic strips (in French). Short bio and bibliography. Minimal text in French. (A quarter or more of this material has been previously published in our own 2006 and 2007 Alary Sketchbooks.) Pierre Alary's First Series
Pierre Alary. LES ECHAUDEURS DES TENEBRES TOME 1: LES DENTS DU BONHEUR. [SN19338X] $28 Toulon: Soleil, 2004. 4to (11-13"), 48pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. This rousing detective thriller is like a 1960s Hammer horror film. A masked man breaks into homes under cover of night stealing the teeth of his victims. An aged detective and his Indian companion are set on the case. A monkey pet. A rooftop chase. Rats. An army of amputees. All manner of outrageousness and a feverish & satisfying finale, all told visually. Written as well as illustrated by the artist of Belladone. Text in French.
Pierre Alary. LES ECHAUDEURS DES TENEBRES TOME 1: LES DENTS DU BONHEUR. [SN22038X] $28 Toulon: Soleil, 2001. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 48pp, color, pictorial boards. Fine. This is a first printing with a different cover (painted) and illustrated endpapers. Text in French.
Pierre Alary. Alary, Pierre and Rodolphe. LES ECHAUDEURS DES TENEBRES TOME 2: ZUBROWKA -DELUXE EDITION. [SN22494X] $55 Lille: Folle Image, 2003. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 56pp, color, cloth. VF/VF. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the artist, writer, and colorist. This is a very limited deluxe edition with an eight-page sketchbook section. The book itself is numbered and signed by Alary & Rodolphe and a matching numbered color print signed by the colorist (with an printed overlay of Alary's line art) is laid in. Text in French.
Mario Alberti. Enoch, Luca. MORGANA, TOME 2 - LE SECRET DES KRITT. [SN24290X] $29 Paris: Les Humanoides Associes, 2003. 4to (11-13"), 56pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. Only the first album in this sci-fi series was published in English by Humanoids. Text in French.
Mario Alberti. Enoch, Luca. MORGANA, TOME 3 - LES DEUX PHÉNIX. [SN24289X] $29 Paris: Humanoides, 2005. 4to (11-13"), 56pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. Only the first album in this sci-fi series was published in English by Humanoids. Text in French.
Preview pages from Morgana Tome 1 - 4 Mario Alberti. Enoch, Luca. MORGANA, TOME 4 - LA VOIX DES EONS. [SN23099X] $29 Paris: Humanoides, 2006. 4to (11-13”), 56pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. Text in French.
Sergio Algozzino. PLUIE D'ETE. [SN23106] $36 Paris: Humanoides, 2007. 8vo (8-9”), 84pp, b&w, color wraps. VF. Text in French. From the publisher: "An auto-fiction (so-called) in which a young Italian author recounts with a lot of humor, charm and poetry his dreams and desires, basically everything that made him what he is - a big child! "After working for Panini Comics and Red Whale, in particular on the colors of Monster Allergy, Algozzino has produced a book about the ligne claire in comics, is Art Director of Mono magazine, and teaches at a Comic Book Art School."
Ludwig Alizon. Duval, Fred. TRAVIS, TOME 2: TOPKAPI. [SN24494] $20 Paris: Delcourt, 2004. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 48pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. Text in French.
Jeremie Almanza. Gauthier , Severine. ARISTIDE BROIE DU NOIR. [SN27751X] $26 Paris: Delcourt, 2008 . 1st. 4to (11-13"), 32pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. A child is afraid to fall asleep all too aware of the horrors that await him in his dreams. Similar in style and tone to Dave Cooper's dreamlike narratives. Text in French. "Every evening it is always the same, the infernal procession, a parade of monsters and their solemn, sepulcral songs. Aristide is fighting, all by himself, against what seems to be a fatal sleep. This one is for children who are afraid of the dark..."
Yoshitaka Amano. THE ILLUSTRATIONS FOR TAROT CARD OF YOSHITAKA AMANO. [SN11652] $75 Tokyo: Kofusha Shuppan, 1991. 4to (11-13”), 112pp, 56 color and 57 b&w illustrations, wraps. Fine/Fine. Amano's lovely illustrations for a tarot card set are reproduced as full page color plates
Yoshitaka Amano. MATEN: THE ART OF YOSHITAKA AMANO. [SN25646] $50 Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama, 1984. 4to (11-13"), 106pp, 63 color and 47 b&w illustrations, wraps. VG/VG+ (lower corner lightly water stained otherwise NF) . Amano's first collection. Works in acrylic, watercolor, pen & ink. Text in Japanese.
Ji An. NIUMAO 1 - GARE AU CHAT CHINOIS!. [SN23946X] $26 Paris: Xiao Pan, 2006. 4to (11-13"), 48pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. A charming French album about the artist's cat. By a Chinese comic book artist working in the French style. Text in French.
Ji An. NIUMAO 2 - LE CHAT CHINOIS FAIT DES SIENNES . [SN23947X] $26 Paris: Xiao Pan, 2007. 4to (11-13"), 48pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. A charming French album about the artist's cat. By a Chinese comic book artist working in the French style. Text in French.
Gilles Aris. LUNE DE JOUR. [SN24301X] $15 Paris: Carabas, 2006. 1st. Square 16mo (6-7"), 28pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. A beautiful little book from France. As night falls, the stars cavort among the clouds and one star in particular gets lost and must be helped by the moon. Graphic storytelling entirely with pictures, no words.
Marshall Arisman. HEAVEN DEPARTED. [SN5973] $75 Tokyo: Tokyo Designer School, 1989. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 108pp, 59 full-page and double-page color illustrations, wraps. VG+. A series of dark paintings musing on the Pandora's box of nuclear weapons.
Virginie Augustin. AUGUSTIN SKETCHBOOK. [SN23448X] $30 Paris: Comix Buro, 2008. 1st. 8vo (8-9”), 48pp, color, wraps. VF. One of 950 numbered copies signed by the artist. A collection of sketches and drawings by the former Disney animator and the artist of the French series Alim de Tanneur. Minimal text in French. For more Comix Buro sketchbooks click here.
Virginie Augustin. Lupano, Wilfried. ALIM DE TANNEUR TOME 1: LE SECRET DES EAUX. [SN23128X] $29 Paris: Delcourt, 2004. 2nd. 4to (11-13"), 48pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. Augustin was an effects animator at Disney's French studio. This is her first comics work and it's great. This is the story of Alim, a humble tanner, and Alim's daughter who live in a huge, imperial city by the sea. Their lives are turned upside-down when Alim discovers "the secret of the waters." Augustin's artwork has incredible appeal. She expertly handles the complicated city scenes and her expressions in all the intimate scenes is equally impressive. The storytelling is quite visual and I see a hint of Miyazaki in the art. Text in French.
Virginie Augustin. Lupano, Wilfried. ALIM DE TANNEUR TOME 2 - LE VENT DE L'EXIL. [SN23133X] $29 Paris: Delcourt, 2006. 4to (11-13"), color, pictorial boards. VF. In volume 2, having escaped the imprisonment of the high priest, Alim, with his daughter and elderly father, seek refuge in the high mountains. Unfortunately the mountains contain perils of their own, but eventually they are taken in by a village of cattle farmers. Meanwhile, the priest proves he will stop at nothing to see Alim dead. Text in French.
Virginie Augustin. Lupano, Wilfried. ALIM LE TANNEUR, TOME 3 - LA TERRE DU PROPHETE PALE. [SN23435X] $29 Paris: Delcourt, 2007. 1st. 4to (11-13”), 48pp, color, pictorial boards. VF. "This critical and popular success is THE series that revealed to the public Virginie Augustin, alongside Wilfrid Lupano." This is the next-to-last volume! Ten years have passed since the end of Tome 2, Alim has joined a desert tribe, without news of his daughter Bul or of the outside world. However his old pursuers, the high priest and the worshippers of Jézameth, crossing oceans in order to propagate the good word to the secular regions have come to him. Text in French.
Tex Avery. Brion, Patrick. TEX AVERY. [SN24997] $95 Paris: Chene, 1984. 1st. 4to (11-13"), 176pp, over 300 color and b&w illustrations, boards. VG+/VG+ (edges of covers rubbed, boards exposed at the top of the spine and upper corner, 1/8-inch closed tear to three pages, otherwise interior sound). A detailed filmography for Avery's Warner Bros, MGM & Universal films with credits & illustration. An 8pp animation drawing sequence for Slap Happy Lion printed on vellum. Facsimiles of 24 layout/animation drawings for Symphony of Slang.
Tex Avery. Brion, Patrick. TEX AVERY: LES DESSINS. [SN8585] $60 Paris: Nathan Image, 1988. Square 4to (11-13"), 96pp, 2 gatefolds, about 82 full-page color illustrations, wraps. VF in shrinkwrap. Reproduces in color drawings from Avery's MGM cartoons 1943-1955. Mostly animation layout drawings, some animation drawings and model sheets. Chronology. MGM Filmography. Text in French.
François Avril. PARIS, TOKYO, NEW YORK, BRUXELLES. [SN25682X] $95 Brussels: Editions Champaka, 2006. 1st. Oblong 4to (11-13" wide), 200pp, color and b&w, pictorial boards. VF/VF. Limited to 3000 numbered copies. "Francois Avril’s career started with illustration. Sometimes working alone, sometimes in collaboration with scriptwriters, he produced many children’s books as well as comic strips that flirted with the French “Nouvelle ligne claire” or “New clear line” style seen in the work of Chaland, Floc’h and Ted Benoit. In common with his friends Loustal and Dupuy & Berberian, he took immense pleasure in creating narrative illustrations into which the reader could project his own story. The city remains his preferred setting, the place into which he can project his slender and elegant creatures. Paris was, at the beginning, his setting of choice. He captured the living pulse of the city of light and revealed a predilection for those areas that have retained their identifiable “village” quality. Rather than waste his efforts on replicating the august monuments of the city, he chooses instead to convey the street-level viewpoint of the passer-by. In doing so he echoes some of the Surrealists (Breton, Aragon…) who in their day elevated the act of aimless wandering to the level of art. Tokyo, New-York and Brussels would in time enjoy the same magical treatment. Though the fascinated observer might claim to recognize the tantalisingly familiar scene sketched by Avril, he has nonetheless been gently hoodwinked by the artist’s affectionate trickery, because Avril takes great pleasure in reshaping the cityscape to his own ends. This hint of déjà vu invites the delighted observer to lose himself in this “other” place basking in harmonious colour. “Paris – Tokyo – New-York – Bruxelles” brings together his best of his delightful urban studies."
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