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JAPAN Anthology

Seventeen authors (nine from France or French-speaking countries, eight from Japan) brought together in the same book, a succession of freely created short stories about the same universe : Japan.
The French, of course, journeyed to Japan for the occasion. Each cartoonist was sent for two weeks to a different city in the archipelago (Joann Sfar in Tôkyô, Emmanuel Guibert in Kyôto, Nicolas de Crécy in Nagoya, etc.) to bring back an original creation.
The Japanese tell us about their district, the city where they live or where they originally come from (Kazuichi Hanawa's story being about the northern island of Hokkaido, Jiro Taniguchi's about the town of Tottori, etc.)

Guy Delisle, a 42 years old Canadian, draws comics. On behalf of a Western producer he supervised the implementation of an animation film series in the Chinese boom-town Shenzhen. In a simple, yet very distinctive way, the exhibited drawings illustrate his time in Shenzhen, tell about encounters, observations and reflect his role as the «watch dog» and foreigner from the West with a lot of moderate self-irony. «Shenzhen» presents a modern China that still differs from the West in many ways and everyday rituals. «Shenzhen» is published in French as a comic book by «L'association» and will soon be available in German by the publisher «Reprodukt».

This sounds really interesting. I wonder how they came up with this idea.

«Shenzhen» is published in French as a comic book by «L'association» and will soon be available in German by the publisher «Reprodukt».

In other Ponent Mon news (for the four of you who care)...

Fantastic news, I think. (I'm still waiting for Blue to come in the mail with vast anticipation.)