this blog / that blog

A lot has been happening over the past few months and years. If you're interested, please refer to the French version of this blog, first. I will try to keep good on my promise that this one will be updated one of these days, but... well... the average day still has only 24 hours... sigh!

Signage & so on

For a better look at the signage and menus I created for Le bar des mots, all you need to do is find your way to their new locale, at 36 rue de la Krutenau (Strasbourg, France) the next time you're craving a light bite at lunchtime. A warm welcome and good eats await you! (Soon to come: a few photos...)

Go... Growl?

I had a lot of fun with this project: a game of something like Go Fish, created with one of the groups of children who participated in my studio classes this year. I'm going to miss this group, with their smiles, their stories, their imaginations and, of course, their monstrous drawings!

Central Vapeur will have a stand at the international comix-festival Fumetto (Lucerne, Suisse) the weekend of April 9-10.

But before that happens, we're organizing a "Before Fumetto" weekend in Strasbourg, the weekend of April 1-2, including a conference, sales stands and festivities, with David Basler (founder of Edition Modern and Strapazin - THE Swiss comix-magazine) and illustrator/author Kati Rickenbach.

For information about Central Vapeur (in French): www.centralvapeur.eu

And for more about the Fumetto festival: www.fumetto.ch

And more about...

Edition Moderne : www.editionmoderne.ch

Strapazin : www.strapazin.ch

Kati Rickenbach : www.katirickenbach.ch or www.strapazin.ch/kati

Travel sketches / 25.12.2010-01.01.2011

drôle d'oiseau

It's finished! It's being printed! And it will be out on the market soon! 
Drôle d'oiseau (Strange Bird) was a project I had the first bits of an idea for about a year ago. When it started coming together, I sent it to Éditions MeMo, one of my favourite French publishers, and... the rest is history — or so the saying goes!


It's already on the Amazon.fr and Fnac.com sites. And you can click on their name for a closer look at what Éditions MeMo does.  

sketching - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)

Sketching while watching films is good for developing quick sketch techniques, but it's also good for expressions and movements one wouldn't otherwise think of. These are a couple that came from last night's watching of the 1962 version of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.