{"id":35578,"date":"2020-02-23T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T02:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=35578"},"modified":"2020-02-23T05:00:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T02:00:26","slug":"line-and-frame-a-survey-of-european-comic-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/02\/23\/line-and-frame-a-survey-of-european-comic-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Line and Frame: A Survey of European Comic Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News of a new spring exhibition in New York City, &#8220;Line and Frame: A Survey of European Comic Art&#8221;. It opens with a Thursday evening launch event on 27th February 2020 (6pm-8pm) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danesecorey.com\/exhibitions\">Danese\/Corey<\/a> (511 West 22nd Street) and then runs until 14th March 2020.  <\/p>\n<p>The show will feature the work of 40 comics artists &#8220;who specialize in science fiction and fantasy&#8221;, including Moebius, Bilal, Breccia, Druillet, Nicole Claveloux, Guido Crepax, Milo Manara, among others.  I doubt there&#8217;s a chance of seeing Lovecraft related art, but names such as Moebius, Bilal, and Breccia certainly overlap with Lovecraft comics.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/moebius-sketch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/moebius-sketch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"665\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35579\" \/><\/a>  Sketch by Moebius, being used to promote the show.<\/p>\n<p>In other quality comics news, a &#8220;new 250-page graphic-novel <em>Monsters<\/em> from British writer\/ artist Barry Windsor-Smith&#8221; is apparently due sometime in 2020 from an as-yet-unknown publisher.  The basic premise, originating in a rejected pitch to Marvel for a <em>Hulk<\/em> storyline, is that&#8230; &#8220;an abandoned Nazi project in genetic engineering had been covertly revived by the U.S. government&#8221;.  Judging from the sparse publicity it now appears to have become a graphic-novel somewhat similar to Alan Moore&#8217;s <em>Providence<\/em>, 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?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/monsters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/monsters.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"265\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-35609\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of a new spring exhibition in New York City, &#8220;Line and Frame: A Survey of European Comic Art&#8221;. It &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/02\/23\/line-and-frame-a-survey-of-european-comic-art\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}