Belgo Comics #2023 [EN]

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

Building on the success of its four previous issues, Belgo Comics is back in 2023 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.

Chaussée de Wavre 150, 1050 Bruxelles contact@abdil.be www.abdil.be

ILLUSTRATED LITERATURES SPACE (E.L.I ASBL)

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

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 http://ateliersdutoner.com/ contact@ateliersdutoner.com

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

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

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

LA PETITE FANZINOTHÈQUE BELGE

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

BELGIAN COMIC STRIP CENTER

Permanent and temporary exhibitions, research library.

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

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.

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

SABAM

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

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

SACD-SCAM

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

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.

Place Sainctelette 2, 1080 Bruxelles www.wbi.be

Belgo Comics 2023 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), Diane Moquet (d.moquet@cwb.fr)

Contacts FWB: Bruno Merckx (bruno.merckx@cfwb.be), Silvie Philippart de Foy (silvie.philippart@cfwb.be)

Graphic design: Alexia de Visscher Coordination: Juliette Framorando and Eléonore Scardoni

Translation: Luca Magnenot

WALLONIA-BRUSSELS CENTER IN PARIS (CWB)

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

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

WALLONIA-BRUSSELS BOOKSHOP IN PARIS

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

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

SCHOOL FOR GRAPHIC

RESEARCH (ERG)

Bachelor and Master in Comics and Publishing.

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

NAMUR FINE ARTS ACADEMY

Artistic education with reduced schedule.

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

Frémok was born in 2002 from the merger of Fréon and Amok, two independent publishers who in the 1990s dug the furrow of an experimental comic strip form, in which storytelling through image prevails. Frémok seeks to question and renew the comic strip medium, notably by using other artistic practices and techniques that are not usually associated with it:

woodcut, metal engraving, painting, chalk, sculpture, etc. Frémok presents works that explore the margins of graphic narration, investing in the political, strange and poetic fields, a comic strip in which the reader is invited to perform an act of creation.

Le Divin trébuchement

978-2-39022-032-9 23,00 € 244 pages B/W Offset 17 × 23 cm August 2022

MIGUEL ANGEL VALDIVIA

Collection Amphigouri

He rises into the air, attracted and inspired by an image of the Blessed Virgin. He is Giuseppe. A simple, frustrated, clumsy man, born in Puglia. This illiterate man touched by grace soon becomes the object of a real popular devotion. But all this is not to the taste of the Inquisition...

978-2-39022-034-3 23,00 € 64 pages 4-colour offset 24 × 30 cm October 2022

Métempsychose

ALEX BARBIER

Collection Amphigouri

Métempsychose is Alex Barbier’s first comic book entirely composed of paintings, a stroll through the timeless universe of the inventor of direct colour. This posthumous work shows the other side, serene and luminous, of a pioneer, by unveiling the large formats of which he wished to make a story.

978-2-39022-033-6 20,00 € 64 pages B/W Offset 24 × 30 cm October 2022

L’Apocalypse Tonnerre d’Ether-Nuée.

BIG BAND BIBLE DORÉ BRIGADE Knock Outsider

By reinterpreting Gustave Doré’s engravings, The Big Band, which associates disabled creators from La “S” Grand Atelier and invited artists, discovers another story of the Old Testament and Love, the silly saga of all the bearded women whose names are concealed by the Holy Writings.

978-2-39022-036-7 20,00 € 264 pages B/W Offset 14 × 17,8 cm January 2023

Défense d’entrer ici PATRICK KYLE

Collection Amphigouri Défense d’entrer ici is a book that doesn’t want to be read, a room that shuts its door behind you, a closedsession experimental comic that is having fun disorienting our sense of reading. A vast flat is constantly mutating, the rules of the game keep changing, a simple joke melts the walls...

L’employé du Moi was founded by authors in Brussels at the turn of the 21st century. This publisher offers many eclectic projects revolving around comics and creation. Ranging from intimate chronicles to wild adventure stories and unbridled science fiction,

L’employé du moi’s books invariably deal with teenage themes, as if the coming of age and everything that revolves around it turned into a fertile ground for developing stories.

978-2-36990-306-2 24,00 € 320 pages Two-colour offset 14 × 21 cm August 2022

Keeping two JORDAN CRANE hors collection

Stuck in a traffic jam, Will and Connie have a heated argument. When they get home, she leaves to run some errands. Hours go by and Connie does not come back. Will considers every possible scenario regarding his girlfriend’s disappearance.

Work-life-balance

AISHA FRANZ hors collection

Anita, Rex and Sandra are struggling to fit in the working world. They dream of higher life standards, of a fulfilling job in a start-up company, or of artistic acknowledgment. But, confronted to the harsh reality, they will have to survive and maybe even resist.

978-2-39004-100-9 26,00 € 152 pages B/W Offset 19,5 × 28 cm February 2023

Tango volver HANNERIINA MOISSEINEN hors collection

Finland, 1989: Seppo Moisseinen is staying on a small, secluded island with his colleagues. For no reason, Seppo walks away from the group. He will never return. Hanneriina is only 11 years old when her father disappears. She has to grow up in an emotionally and financially fragile family.

Astra Nova LISA BLUMEN hors collection

978-2-39004-102-3 24,00 € 176 pages 4-colour offset 16 × 22 cm March 2023

After a long training, Nova is getting ready to embark on a scientific one way mission. Before the big departure, she must comply with one final formality: renew with old friendships at a farewell party organized in her honor in a sumptuous villa.

hors collection

Sibylla Schwarz was born 400 years ago, in the midst of the Thirty Years’ War. During her short life, she wrote more than a hundred poems, demonstrating a remarkable talent. A Germanic poetess of the 17th century who was ahead of her time, yet very little-known in her own country.

Gratin de Chat ADÈLE MAURY hors collection

Nana and Loulou are on holidays with their mother and the family cat. Beware, Chacha is not just any cat, it’s a talking cat, at least it talks to who is willing to listen. The animal unwittingly ends up at the heart of the tensions between the two teenagers and their mother.

L’employé du Moi - address: Rue du Pont-Neuf 1, 1000 Bruxelles email: info@employe-du-moi.org website: http://employe-du-moi.org - facebook.com/employe.du.moi - instagram : @employedumoi

Sibylla MAX BAITINGER

LES IMPRESSIONS NOUVELLES

With graphic novels by authors such as Aurélia Aurita, Frédéric Boilet, Jimmy Beaulieu, Chantal Montellier and Bed-deum, Les Impressions Nouvelles put also a strong emphasis on essays about comics, conceived as real tools to grasp the specificities of the medium’s

language, to understand its history and its current issues. Founded in 1985 and rich of a 400-title catalogue, Les Impressions Nouvelles publish books that combine readability, a taste for commitment as well as a desire for intelligent popularization.

978-2-87449-921-0 36,00 € 704 pages 4-colour offset 17 × 24 cm November 2021

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

Collection Réflexions faites

This essay traces back in detail the chronological history of the publication of Hergé’s comics in various periodicals around the world (more than 300 in 40 countries). The book is packed with exclusive information and features many rare or unpublished illustrations.

978-2-87449-920-3 28,00 € 448 pages 4-colour offset 17 × 24 cm January 2022

Collection Réflexions faites

Robida was a visionary writer and draughtsman, a contemporary of Jules Verne, who knew better than anyone how to imagine the 20th century. A fascinating collective work, richly illustrated with mostly unknown images.

978-2-87449-929-6 29,50 € 200 pages 4-colour offset 20 × 24 cm January 2022

La bande dessinée réinventée

JACQUES SAMSON ET BENOIT PEETERS

Collection Réflexions faites

The reference book on the greatest living comic book artist, winner of the Angoulême Grand Prix in 2021. Richly illustrated with rare or unpublished images, this first French monograph offers several crossings of an already impressive work, although still in full development.

978-2-87449-940-1 12,00 € 128 pages B/W Offset 13 × 19 cm March 2022

Milou Humain, trop humain

RENAUD NATTIEZ

Collection La Fabrique des Héros Snowy is much more than a sidekick or his master’s shadow, he is a key element of Hergé’s work. He appears right from the beginning in the first panel of Tintin au Pays des Soviets, and will be the last member of the Tintin family to speak in the last unfinished album, Tintin et L’AlphArt

L’Intégrale ! (relisted)

AURÉLIA AURITA

Collection For intérieur

An unvarnished autobiography, an erotic confession both raw and tender, a report on contemporary life across the continents, a feminine look at things sexual, but above all a fresh and brilliant comic book.

A beautiful book with impressive iconography. A goldmine of discoveries on a little-known period of the history of comics. This album is a trailblazing publication, combining first-class scholarship and an exceptional and lavishly reproduced set of totally unknown images.

The mutations of the famous Franco-Belgian twentieth-century publisher, from the arrival of Hergé to the development of graphic novel, via Martine. Relying on rich and never studied company archives, Florian Moine tells in a lively and rigorous way the hectic history of a major publishing house.

A superb poetic and sensual graphic novel. A suggestive and dreamy world with new ways of seeing the body, both desired and desiring, of becoming sensitive to the play of light and dark, of crossing known and unknown boundaries. Romain Renard’s drawings immediately create a powerful and endearing atmosphere.

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

Albert Robida De la satire à l’anticipation

LA DIRECTION DE CLAIRE BAREL-MOISAN ET MATTHIEU LETOURNEUX

Chris Ware

ÉDITIONS VITE

Vite prioritises the joy of creating, so our issues represent eclectic visual languages and intense individualism, reflecting facets of a common theme. We are

here to offer artists the agonising independence of creation. Vite is a publisher for young authors, exploring each and every narrative visual art form.

Plein Soleil DAVID WAUTIER

Digital color 21 × 29 cm August 2022

Carnets méditerranéens

David never ceases to amaze us with his travel diaries. For this third edition of his plein air drawings, he offers an excursion to the Mediterranean.

35,00 € 120 pages Two-colour offset 22 × 30 cm November 2021

Gilgamesh CECILIA VALAGUSSA, DENNIS MARIEN, ADLEY, MARIE-BRUNE DE CHASSEY

Gilgamesh, a fearsome warrior and queen of the famous city of Uruk, reigns as a despot over her people. After much prayer, the gods send the wild man Enkidu to defeat Gilgamesh.But instead of fighting, a friendship develops between them.

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

Greetings from Trantalia DAVOR GROMILOVIC

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

Éditions Vite - address: Rue Hôtel des Monnaies, 144, 1060 Bruxelles email: vite.un.contact@gmail.com - website: http://editionsvite.tumblr.com - facebook.com/editionsvite - instagram : @editionsvite

CFC-ÉDITIONS

CFC-éditions was founded in 1987. The Maison CFC develops a project with two complementary aspects: a publishing activity and the life of a bookshop/

Bon pour… Dessins de famille ANDRÉ FRANQUIN 7/107

Bon pour... Dessins de famille is a collection of unpublished drawings by Franquin. The famous cartoonist didn’t have enough time to buy presents for his relatives, so he drew “coupons for...” with tenderness and humour, while waiting for the presents to materialize. An exceptional album.

La Supplication DENNIS MARIEN

18 € 16 pages Risography 21 × 29 cm August 2021

This book tells a simple story without text: that of a very long and arduous journey, with a horrifying reception at its destination.

exhibition space. The 7|107 collection, dedicated to youth and comics, was created in 2017.

J’habite ici aussi MARIE MAHLER ET JEAN-MICHEL LECLERCQ 7/107

Wild animals populate our big cities. J’habite ici aussi is based on testimonies and tells sixteen surprising human-animal encounters. These stories, touching and mischievous, illustrated like little colourful jewels, will intrigue children and their parents alike.

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Panel from Bon pour... Dessins de famille by Franquin

LE DESSABLEUR

20 years after the last issue of Préambulle, the Belgian Comic Strip Center is launching a new quarterly:

Le Dessableur. The aim of this magazine is to shed light on subjects and comic strip authors that are rarely, if ever, discussed by the museum itself. Le Dessableur, instead of dealing with themes that are

already widely covered by other magazines, unearths rare subjects that it entrusts to specialists. Reflections on the form and content of contemporary production, evocation of forgotten and founding works and exclusive pages created for the occasion form the editorial line of the magazine.

Comics are one contemporary form among others. La 5e Couche holds it and its readers in high regard. Everything comic-related is of interest to 5C and tends to distance it from them. Its field of action is,

by definition, porous and unlimited. 5C acts. 5C fosters the conditions that make creation possible. Its manifesto is its books.

Collection f.

Tétshim and Frank Mukunday create, with raw materials (pebbles, chalk, rusty objects), a formal universe that fits their subject.

Machini, adapted from their animated film, is a tribute to their city, the mining town of Lubumbashi, that reveals the fatal consequences of mineral exploitation.

978-2-39008-072-5 20,00 € 160 pages 4-colour offset 17 × 24 cm April 2022

Le titre ne convient pas MARTIN LOPEZ LAM Hors collection

Le titre ne convient pas (The title doesn’t fit) traces the relationships between objects and ideas that are distant in time and space, but which ultimately all lead us to an inhospitable, nocturnal place.

L’enfant prodige

MICHAEL KUPPERMAN Hors collection

Joel Kupperman, the author’s father, was the child prodigy, the nice Yankee boy during the Second World War, famous in all American homes thanks to his remarkable appearances on the famous show Quiz Kids

978-2-39008-084-8 20,00 € 100 pages B/W Offset 17,1 × 24,7 cm September 2022

Léonie leads the boring life of an ordinary teenager, when she discovers she is pregnant. She decides, without conviction, to keep the baby and her life turns into a nightmare: a pandemic of anthropophagous and matricidal newborns descends on the planet.

A limerick is a humorous poem, originally in English, of 5 rhymed lines (AABBA rhymes), often of a saucy, irreverent or irreligious character. A rimelick or rimelique is a Parisian fantasy due to the imagination and rigorous metric of Gérald Auclin.

978-2-39008-047-3 29,00 € 120 pages 4-colour offset 18,7 × 23,7 cm October 2022

Con descendance

SILIO DURT

Hors collection

Con descendance is a series of portraits made by Silio Durt between 2015 and 2020. To these portraits of smiling children, Durt superimposes violent words that they have all heard and which, inevitably, mark and pursue them.

Fastwalkers

ILAN MANOUACH

Collection Essaim

Fastwalkers is the first synthetic comic book entirely produced (text and drawings) by an emerging AI, a non-linear meditation on deep learning (machine learning and modelling methods using non-linear transformations).

Konvalescens

CHRISTOPHE POOT

Hors collection

Around three letters from Lise Waterstone, his missing fiancée, the story of the romantic wanderings of pianist Graham Schalken in Stockholm in 1906. Eight chapters build a restrained and loving elegy, carried by Christophe Poot’s elliptical drawings and his laconic line.

Machini TÉTSHIM ET FRANK MUKUNDAY

Ugly babies NOÉMIE BARSOLLE Collection Extracteur

The Maison Autrique in Brussels is one of the first works by architect Victor Horta. For a century, it remained a private home. This important milestone of heritage owes to comic strips its complete restoration and opening to the public. Indeed, the imagination of the Cités obscures ― the cycle by F. Schuiten & B. Peeters ― presided over the rebirth of the building. Starting from this concrete example, we have imagined comic books dedicated to heritage in all its forms. Support Kronikas in celebrating a universal heritage that belongs to the whole world and that allows people to grow together, side by side, thanks to the message of peace conveyed by images and writing.

978-2-9601963-9-9 15,00 € 208 pages 4-colour offset 21,5 × 27,2 cm September 2022

Kronikas#6 L’inventaire imaginaire COLLECTIF

The Maison Autrique is not the most important institution for heritage or comics, but we are the most convinced of the necessity that Stefan Zweig calls, in his book The World of Yesterday, “THE FIGHT FOR SPIRITUAL FRATERNITY".

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.

Maison Autrique - address: Chaussée de Haecht 266, 1030 Bruxelles - email: info@autrique.be - website: www.autrique.be - facebook/maisonautrique - instagram : @maison_autrique

POIL DANS LA MAIN

Poil dans la main is a self-publishing structure founded in Liege in 1999. As its name does not indicate, it mainly publishes fanzines of all sizes and shapes, by authors or collectives, autobiographical or simply

graphic. At Poil dans la main, craftsmanship and singularity prevail, with limited editions of books and various silkscreened publishing objects.

2,00

Déambulation

FIFI

An 8-page A6 format booklet of sketches taken from drawing walks. Each publication can be enjoyed separately or in a silk-screened pocket that gathers 5 small formats.

Un aventure du commissaire

FIFI

Collection Poster

An 8-page story that ends with a large image that unfolds into a large poster. The entire publication is screenprinted on Munken paper with 2-colour passages.

La paix c’est nul Livre de guerre

FIFI

3,00 € 8 pages Digital color 7,5 × 10,5 cm March 2022

In these troubled times it is important to remember how stupid and absurd war can be. The author portrays very special combatants who end up in situations that are often inextricable.

Mobilisation Livre de guerre FIFI

3,00 € 8 pages Digital color 7,5 × 10,5 cm May 2022

Continuation of the serie.

Poil dans la main - address: Rue Dony 33, 4000 Liège - email: atelieranous@skynet.be - facebook.com/Editions poil dans la main - instagram :@philipppesadzot

COLLECTION KRONIKAS

DU NOIR SOUS LES ONGLES ÉDITIONS

Du Noir Sous les Ongles is a small independent publishing house founded in Brussels in 2019. Specialized in lithography and documentary comics, it also publishes collaborative fanzines and generally any project the team feels like doing.

HAMILCARO-BERLIN The days got longer and I was angry. I was writing. It’s nice... to want to get so much rage out of yourself. Sondje VALENTIN AUBEN

young girl and a young man, dark woods and an evil king, a stolen sun... This could be a tale. But it’s worse, it’s a belgian legend.

L’APPÂT

L’appât is an artisanal print shop located in downtown Brussels, founded in 2013 by Rebecca Ann Rosen and Quentin Pillot. L’appât publishes handmade books and posters in limited quantities using silkscreen and letterpress techniques.

The artists are invited for a residency at the workshop, in order to print a work in which they master all the stages of production. This represents a first approach to artisanal printing for some of them. L’appât’s productions are the result of a collaborative effort between artist and printer.

DITIONS

En 3000 éditions proposes to put collective dreams on paper, ideas and possibilities for a better life together, stories of hope for a different life on our planet. En 3000 éditions offers fiction to escape from reality, fiction to make room for the imaginary, and fiction to reinvent reality.

En 3000 éditions explores narration as a free adventure, drawing as a contemporary experience, and comics as an independent struggle. Beyond the collective dimension of the Forgeries comic magazine project, En 3000 éditions opens its collections to new authors.

Le Chagrin du Cairn

ROMANE ARMAND

978-2-9602242-4-5

978-2-9602242-5-2 19,00 € 22 pages Risography 20 × 28 cm January 2023

Anouk and Nelle, two teenagers, are walking for the first time in the the heights of the Alps. They are headed for the Calcaire camp, where a funeral march for a missing glacier is organised.

Nettwerk

ÉLÉONORE SCARDONI

ET ROMANE ARMAND

In the land of fjords, electric cars and well-mown lawns, Lothe and Johan, two Norwegian activists on the run, seek to join the Network.

978-2-9602242-3-8 25,00 € 200 pages Colour inkjet 19,8 × 27 cm March 2022 Au-delà de la toile

12,00 € 16 pages Risography 17 × 21,5 cm May 2022

ÉLÉONORE SCARDONI

Space low-angle shot, from her computer, from click to click, Éléonore explores up there. The headlines spin and weave the web of a story about the extent of the garbage that revolves around our Earth.

Au-delà des rochers

ANTOINE CARCANO Collection Point de fuite Alone in a video game world, guided by an immobile narrator, the avatar explores. But with each passing level, he drifts further and further away from his quest to accomplish what no one has done before : To go out of bounds, to go beyond the rocks.

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

ESPACE DE LITTÉRATURE ILLUSTRÉES (E.L.I) & LES ATELIERS DU TONER

E.L.I ABSL has been bringing together the actors of Brussels’ graphic creation since 2017.

The association is established in the Camille Lemonnier house, and hosts the Ateliers du Toner (a collaborative printing space), but also the Paratoner (a mobile bookshop), printing residencies, exhibitions, a book shaping space, a meeting room and an open library.

The machines of the Ateliers du Toner (mainly Risograph, laser and Comcolor) print and shape all types of publications, from posters to fanzines, artists’ books, photo books, graphic poetry, comics and illustration.

During these workshops, the authors can therefore get hold of the entire book production process independently, and learn collectively on professional equipment. It is not a “printing shop” where you place orders, but a studio of self-learning to publish your own works.

The Paratoner is a mobile fanzinothèque/bookshop that travels from festival to festival. It shows the richness of Belgian micro-publishing with the works of some sixty artists, collectives, illustrators and comic book authors.

What is micro-publishing?

It is a selfmade paper publication with a small print run, produced independently from creation to distribution by the authors themselves.

The artists or collectives are often close to their audience and distribute their creations from hand to hand, without going through a classic publishing network.

Ranging from fanzines (small photocopied booklets, generally inexpensive) to artist’s books, micro-published objects are full of confirmed or novice authors, alone or in groups, and offer great freedom in their content and form. This type of handmade publishing is always an original creation for each work.

The desire of our association is to promote, discover and give space to fanzines and micro-publishing, as it is at the heart of our workshop.

This is why the Paratoner stand now includes a “rotating stand", featuring four new young collectives who come from different Belgian cities.

You can discover this year :

— Fémixion (Bruxelles);

— Que scay je & Triple sec (Tournai);

— BDC (Liège);

— Mardi Soir (Bruxelles).

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SEC COLLECTIF

The “triple sec” is a cocktail base, which can be found at a very reasonable price in supermarkets. It has been used on many occasions during festivities between students of the Tournai Beaux-Arts school. The whole thing is spiced up with various binders to

make a very suitable drink. This principle is applicable to comics: individuals are brought together under a common banner, hence the cocktail, the collective emulsion, well you get the idea, don’t you?

3,00 € 14 pages Digital B/W 13 × 19 cm October 2022

3,00 € 14 pages Digital B/W 13 × 19 cm October 2022

8,00 € 64 pages Digital B/W 14,2 × 20,5 cm November 2022

20,00 € 92 pages Digital B/W 21 × 29,7 cm December 2022

Le Serpent

CHO7 ET TRIS KOTRO

Collection attention

An individual moves into his new flat. After a few days, through a window of the building across the street, he thinks he sees a motionless snake enthroned on a bed.

La Fosse LOUIS CORNÉLIS

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A social worker goes to the countryside to assess the living conditions of little Charly. In order to do so, she has to meet his father.

Nuisible

CHABELISA ET LOUIS CORNÉLIS

Que scay-je ?

The various stories that compose Nuisible ("Pest") make us wonder about the very definition of the word, which is often used as a rolled-up newspaper: to get rid of anything that seems hostile.

Soleil de Chien CHABELISA

Collection rebelle

A silent story about a friendship between a little girl and a soldier from the enemy camp. Despite the conflict, life goes on in the remote countryside where everyday life banality contrasts with the reality of a conflict that seems far away.

Femixion is a feminist science fiction fanzine founded in 2019 by a collective of 4 creators (Morgane Somville, Loriane Panel, Laureline Mahéo and Marie Baurins). The fanzine is about thirty pages long, printed and assembled at the Toner workshops in Brussels.

Each issue of Femixion is built around a theme and brings together comics, illustrations, texts and photos by contributors who all bring into question the patriarchal system and gender stereotypes.

at the Ateliers du Toner.

MARDI SOIR

The story goes that every Tuesday night a group of people gather in the print lab of a school called the ERG, their laughter and dismal cries echoing through the cold corridors. One can sometimes find obscure books that have survived those terrible Tuesday nights, among empty beer bottles and the paper cutting machine. These surviving editions are then col-

lected and presented at various events. The members of this tiny group do not hesitate to use all means at their disposal to express their love of printing, whether it be silk-screening, risography, engraving, sewing, ink printing, laser printing, or even sometimes with their tears. Maïa

I. Musique – Métro – Disco BASTIEN-CHRISTOPHE

Battle Of Music Artists Chart : Between Sound, Music, Explosion and Fights. Maïa watches the final from behind the bar counter she works at, dreaming of participating in this tournament. During a party, several encounters happen that will change the life of Maïa and her best friend.

Grisou ANOUK SIPOS

Grisou takes us from question to question. Grandma used to say: “You know, in life, nothing is all white or all black. Grey always wins. This does not prevent a form of radicalism.”

Astro Pizza COLLECTIF MARDI SOIR

Feeling hungry in space? You live 6 light years away from Earth? Hold on, Astro Pizza is here for you! Your pack is delivered every Tuesday evening between 4pm and midnight. Includes 8 gastronomic fanzines, 2 gourmet posters, a pizza sculpture and a beautiful t-shirt.

Hyper triste IV. Hyper Trip

COLLECTIF HYPER TRISTE

The principle of being HYPER TRISTE consists in submitting a 24-page fanzine. In each issue a guest takes possession of our central double page. They submit a theme that will bring tears to our eyes...

BDC

BDC is a participatory sequential art and narrative experimentation fanzine.

Since its creation in 2018 under the name ̏Bruit d’Couloir˝, the main goal has been to bring together very diverse authors, thus creating a community, a network, to promote collaboration between artists. The project was born from Mai Nácher and Maxime Gillot during their last year of studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of Liège. They sought to create a publishing space where their own works and that of their colleagues might exist. The identity of the BDC is the desire to be a platform for all its artists, regardless of their experience.

Le diálogo #0

MAI NÁCHER ET MAXIME GILLOT

This year for Angoulême we are launching a special issue featuring a dialogue between two authors: the diàlogo. Each author chooses a word, and the book consists of two stories built from these two words. “Troubled” and “blurry” are the two concepts that will take our sequential wanderings to a new place.

IMAGES is a joint venture theoretical imagery publishing company resulting from the fusion of iconic semeîon and semiotic eikôn. It was forged in 2018 by Annabelle Dupret. OR BOR is its raw magazine. OR

BOR is non-standard, or barely so: 1 A2 poster | Offset Maestro 150g | 4 issues per year | 1 artist + 1 author per issue | French-English | 4 Folds

ISSN 2684 5970 10,00 € 2 pages 4-colour offset 42 × 60 cm 2022

Les métamorphoses de Valfret

ANNABELLE DUPRET ET JEANCHARLES ANDRIEUX DE LEVIS OR BOR

Valfret’s moults are like his aliases, unique, unpredictable, colourful and captivating. His practice has progressively moved towards a complexification of the image which abolishes the line, in order to invest a resolutely loose and pictorial work.

Les mots de Joseph Lambert

ISSN 2684 5970 10,00 € 2 pages 4-colour offset 60 × 42 cm 2022

ANNABELLE DUPRET ET JEANCHARLES ANDRIEUX DE LEVIS OR BOR

In its continuous flow of cursive letters that would exceed the limits of the notebook, this borderless diary knows variations of colours and their combinations, rather than legible references to significant events. There was a time when the interlacing of signs remained identifiable.

ISSN 2684 5970 10,00 € 2 pages 4-colour offset 60 × 42 cm 2022

Les tirs au but de Jan Bucquoy ANNABELLE DUPRET OR BOR

If ’life is a tombola’ (Diego Maradona), Jan Bucquoy invites us to take all possible tickets, in all directions, and not to be embarrassed by a defined direction at the start. Besides, what do we know about the start?

Following the thread of a derisorylooking intention and an ultimate economy of means, Elke Tangeten has adorned pious images with golden threads and silky materials. She pulverizes the ingenuous looks and innocent attire of the images painted by some unknown amateur.

BLOW BOOK

The BLOW BOOK is a popular book, thanks to its price (5 euros), its size (7.6 x 11.6 cm), the diversity of its contents (local & international, old & new), the specificity of its articulation (one drawing per page) and its circuit (automatic distributors). Eight titles are already available: JIU-JITSU by Alfred Mazure (first issue, by the creator of the format), SALARYMAN by Dimitri Piot, NUIT SUR L’ALLEMAGNE by Carl Meffert, AU TRAVAIL ! by Manuel, LA COMÈTE by Maxime Gillot, RECHERCHES by Lucien De Roeck, PLUTON by Quentin Roux and AUTOPSIE D’UN DÉPRESSIF by Jean Bourguignon.

La plus mauvaise (biographie d’un auteur de) BD du monde.

PHILIPPE VANDEN DRIESSCHE (PÉVÉ)

Blow Book

This book is dedicated to Pévé, alias Philippe Vanden Driessche (1950-2017), the creator of La plus mauvaise BD du monde published in the newspaper SPIROU between 1983 and 1987. This BLOW BOOK was made this summer during a residency at Le Vecteur, workshop located in Charleroi. Editorial team distilled 224 pages of Pévé’s best, from the 45 boxes of archives miraculously preserved from dispersal. What was not bad enough was discarded. The artist remains to be discovered! Special edition limited to 300 copies.

Les innocences pulvérisantes d’Elke Tangeten ANNABELLE DUPRET OR BOR

The size of a deck of cards, a BLOW BOOK is composed of 224 pages. It strips comics down to their essential articulation: one image per page. Its catalogue features contemporary creators rubbing shoulders with older creations, both local and international. They are sold through vending machines, the BLOW BOOK DISPENSER, at the popular price of 5 euros. Machine distribution allows for a decentralized access to culture and reduces the distance between authors and readers. Instead of a robot offering solid or liquid sugar, BLOW BOOK proposes food for the mind. More information on its different titles here:

www.blowbook.be