Blood Song: Une ballade silencieuse

Comics & Graphic Novels

Drooker,Eric

Manga

TANIBIS

Paolo Pinocchio

Varela, Lucas

During the years 1974 to 1986, after working as an assistant to Wally Wood, Paul Kirchner created several comic strips such as Dope Rider for High Times magazine and the bus for Heavy Metal. In 2012, French publishing house Tanibis published an anthology of the bus strips that was nominated at the Angoulême International comics festival, proving that even a 30-year old public transportation vehicle can take part in a Grand Prix.In 2013, Paul Kirchner surprised commuters when he decided to start working again on the bus. He fixed the old vehicle up, took it out of the garage and called its iconic passenger in the white overcoat back on duty, waiting to be taken on new, exotic adventures. The bus' unpredictable personality causes him to mimic classic pop culture icons such as King-Kong or Steve Martin while in turn analyzing or teleporting his passenger. And that's only when it's not cheating on him with other commuters.Kirchner's new ideas are on par with the original strips, proving that his creativity didn't end with the 80's. The crazy cartoon logic of the original strips is still present, and wackiness is the norm. Some details, such as the so-called « smart » phones or the passengers' looks, root the stories in the 21st century, but Paul Kirchner's universe retains a timeless vintage aesthetic that blends eras, lending these new stories a hint of nostalgia.The bus 2 will be published in hardcover horizontal format identical to the previous collection published in 2012.Back in that twilight dimension he calls home, it is rumored that Paul Kirchner is at work on new material for his psychedelic western Dope Rider. After all it seems that the bus' passenger is not the only one who gets caught occasionally in strange time warps...

The Bus 2 (English Edition)

Kirchner, Paul

The bus comic strips were first published in 1978 in Heavy Metal magazine, where they appeared regularly for seven years. From the simple, mundane premise of a man waiting for his bus, the strips quickly slip into a weird yet hilarious world where cities are surreal labyrinths and bewilderment is just around the corner. Six to eight wordless panels is often all it takes Kirchner to display his sense for the bizarre. In the bus, fire hydrants come alive, buses chose to stray away from the law, the distant horizon might be just an arm's length away and the whole world might just turn out to be a two-dimensional panel messing with our sense of depth. More bizarre yet, in 25 years since its original publication in the USA by Ballantine Books in 1987, the bus had never been republished. This new edition contains the entire collection of strips drawn by Paul Kirchner, including a dozen previously unreleased. It also includes a new postscript and a new cover drawing by Paul Kirchner.

The Bus (English Edition)

This third collaboration between French publishing house Tanibis and comic book artist Paul Kirchner is a collection of the artist's works, most of them initially published in counter-culture magazines in the 1970s and the 1980s and some dating from his return to comics in the 2010s. Roughly a third of the stories star Dope Rider, the pot-smoking skeleton whose psychedelic adventures take him through colorful vistas equally reminiscent of Sergio Leone's spaghetti western films and of the surrealistic paintings of René Magritte and Salvador Dalí. These stories were originally drawn for the marijuana-themed magazine High Times but were also for Kirchner an excuse to create his very own brand of visual poetry. An other third of the book is a miscellaneous collection of comics whose stories range from the loony (the sextraterrestrial invasion of Earth in "They Came from Uranus") to the satirical ("Critical mass of cool") and the outright subversive (if you ever wondered what games toys play at night, read "Dolls at Midnight"). This book also features a broad selection of the covers Kirchner made for the pornographic tabloid Screw in the 1970s. Awaiting the Collapse finally contains a previously unpublished essay by Paul Kirchner about his career and his influences, which helps put in perspective the works published in this book.

Awaiting the Collapse: Selected Works 1974-2014 (English edition)

Voici Jheronimus, pauvre hère condamné à subir tous les outrages en Enfer accompagné de Bosch, son stoïque canard en bois. Depuis leur trépas, ils endurent brimades et humiliations de la part de démons facétieux et leurs tentatives pour gagner le paradis se soldent toutes par de fumants échecs.Dans cette centaine de pages de gags muets, blasphématoires et scatologiques, Paul Kirchner s’inspire autant d’une certaine imagerie médiévale de l'au-delà, telle qu'illustrée dans les vers de Dante ou les triptyques de Jérôme Bosch, que de la mécanique absurde des cartoons de la Warner. Il met en scène avec un malin plaisir le sadisme de diablotins malicieux auquel répond l'entêtement masochiste du pauvre Jheronimus.L'Enfer décrit par Kirchner obéit à des lois bizarres, source d'un humour absurde qui n'est pas sans rappeler celui de sa série Le bus. Mais si le passager du bus sortait le plus souvent indemne, quoique déboussolé de ses aventures, on ne peut pas en dire autant de nos infortunés anti-héros. À la fois fosse septique pour les anges du paradis et terrain de jeux pour des démons en manque de torture, l'enfer dans lequel ils sont coincés est source de brimades aussi drôles que cruelles. Le boss en personne, Satan, fait quelques apparitions remarquées et dévoile une facette comique inédite. Il signe aussi la postface de l’ouvrage.

Hieronymus & Bosch (English Edition)

Connexions: 1. Faux accords

Jeanneau, Pierre

Dope Rider is back in town! After a 30-year hiatus, Paul Kirchner brought back to life his iconic, bony stoner hero whose first adventures were a staple of the psychedelic counter-culture magazine High Times in the 1970s and 1980s. The new stories collected in this book were all created after 2015 and despite the years, Dope Rider has stayed essentially the same, still smoking his ever-present joint, getting high and chasing metaphysical dragons through whimsical realities in meticulously illustrated and colorful one-page adventures. Fans of the original Dope Rider comics will still find the bold graphical innovations, dubious puns and wild dreamscapes inspired by classical painting and western movies that were some of Dope Rider’s trademark. This time though, Kirchner draws from a much larger panel of influences, including modern pop – and pot – culture (lines and characters from Star Wars as well as references to Denver as the US weed capital can be found here and there) and a wider range of artistic references, from Alice in Wonderland to 2001: A Space Odyssey to Ed Roth’s Kustom Kulture. Native American culture and mythology, only hinted at in the classic adventures, is also much more present in the form of Chief, one of Dope Rider’s new sidekicks. Kirchner’s playful, tongue-in-cheek humor binds together all these influences into stories that mock both the mundane and the nonsensical alike. Paul Kirchner lives in Connecticut. He started his career in the 1970s as an assistant to Wally Wood. His original Dope Rider stories are collected among other early works in the book Awaiting the Collapse. He also created the bus, a surrealistic monthly strip published in Heavy Metal magazine from 1979 to 1985 and illustrated the graphic detective novel Murder by Remote Control written by Janwillem van de Wetering. Paul Kirchner went back to comics during the 2010s with the bus 2 in 2015 and Hieronymus & Bosch in 2018.

Dope Rider: A Fistful of Delirium (English Edition)

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Fontaine, Sylvie

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