News of a new spring exhibition in New York City, “Line and Frame: A Survey of European Comic Art”. It opens with a Thursday evening launch event on 27th February 2020 (6pm-8pm) at Danese/Corey (511 West 22nd Street) and then runs until 14th March 2020.

The show will feature the work of 40 comics artists “who specialize in science fiction and fantasy”, including Moebius, Bilal, Breccia, Druillet, Nicole Claveloux, Guido Crepax, Milo Manara, among others. I doubt there’s a chance of seeing Lovecraft related art, but names such as Moebius, Bilal, and Breccia certainly overlap with Lovecraft comics.

Well-timed, the show comes at a point when the continental European comics industry is making a very belated push to produce and market more English translations in the USA. The show is supported by the various national cultural agencies in France, Belgium, Spain, etc.

Sketch by Moebius, being used to promote the show.

In other quality comics news, a “new 250-page graphic-novel Monsters from British writer/ artist Barry Windsor-Smith” is apparently due sometime in 2020 from an as-yet-unknown publisher. The basic premise, originating in a rejected pitch to Marvel for a Hulk storyline, is that… “an abandoned Nazi project in genetic engineering had been covertly revived by the U.S. government”. Judging from the sparse publicity it now appears to have become a graphic-novel somewhat similar to Alan Moore’s Providence, in terms of its adult nature and ambition. Just my guess, but I wonder if there may be some back-story links into aspects of the Lovecraft mythos?