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French Signings of 1001 BD in Paris & Angoulême
Posted: March 6, 2012
1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die is gradually spreading around the globe. The French and Spanish editions are being published this month by Flammarion and Grijalbo respectively. The Spanish version is a straight translation of the English-language British original though in hardback, whereas the French paperback version has replaced around 100 entries with different French choices, co-ordinated by collaborator and co-author Nicolas Finet, and substituted Terry Gilliam’s Foreword for a new introduction by writer, theorist and historian Benoît Peeters. It also goes by the slightly more optimistic title of the ‘1001 Comics You Must Have Read In Your Life’. Shortly, within the 1001 Comics section of this site, I will be adding a translation of Peeters’ introductory text and details of these fascinating French additions.
Meantime, I will be joining Peeters and Finet on the Flammarion publisher’s stand, N63, at the Salon du Livre in Paris on Saturday March 17th, from 11.30am to 1.30pm, for a signing session and celebration of the book’s release. It’s already garnered some glowing critiques. Then on the following Wednesday March 21st , while I am back in the International City of Comics, Angoulême, to give some lectures to students at the Ecole Supérieure de l’Image, I will talking about and signing copies from 5pm in the wonderful Bookshop at the Musée de la Bande Dessinée. I then jet off to Madrid to help launch the Spanish edition at the Museo ABC on Saturday March 24th as part of The British Council’s UK Comics promotion. I am looking forward to meeting and making friends through comics during this exciting three-city European mini-tour!
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