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posted December 23, 2008
 

Conversational Euro-Comics is the catch-all column covering Bart Beaty's interactions with European comics -- their best works, their most creative artists and their most popular festivals. We are honored to run it on The Comics Reporter.

Dr. Beaty is a former columnist at The Comics Journal and a professor at the University of Calgary. He has written extensively on comics for academia and the mainstream press. Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s is his survey of the growth of independent, formally audacious comics publishing houses over the last twenty years. His Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture and its sympathetic portrayal of the much-demonized social reformer may be the most controversial book of comics scholarship to be published in the last 20 years. A full bibliography may be found in the initial name link.

Conversational Euro-Comics appears on the occasional Thursday and whenever else Dr. Beaty might see fit to post. He can be reached

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ALL POSTS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, NEWEST POST FIRST
* Bienvenue a Boboland And Grand Prizes (12/11/08)
* Emile Bravo's Spirou/Fantasio Book (12/4/08)
* Two By Mika Lietzen (11/13/08)
* Le Petit Christian 2, by Blutch (10/9/08)
* Museumification And The Blab! Show In Kansas (9/25/08)
* New Publications About Euro-Comics (8/14/08)
* Two By Francois Ayroles (8/7/08)
* La Veritable Histoire de Futuropolis (7/24/08)
* Ma Maman (7/17/08)
* In Luzern 02 (4/26/08)
* In Luzern 01 (4/21/08)
* The New Actus Book, How To Love (4/15/08)
* Campo Di Baba, by Amanda Vahamaki (3/25/08)
* Fokke & Sukke, Drinks A Free Beer (3/18/08)
* Un Peu avant la fortune (2/15/08)
* From Angouleme 01/27/08 (1/27/08)
* From Angouleme 01/25/08 (1/25/08)
* From Angouleme 01/24/08 (1/24/08)
* Previews Angouleme Festival 2008 (1/23/08)
* The Angouleme '08 Nominees (1/17/08)

* La Vie secrete des jeunes, by Riad Sattouf (11/13/07)
* Bandes de Sonnets (11/3/07)
* Greffier (11/3/07)
* RG (11/3/07)
* L'Enrage (11/3/07)
* Faire semblant c'est mentir (11/3/07)
* L'Enrage, by Baru (8/10/07)
* Ab Bedex Compilato, by Henriette Valium (6/7/07)
* Le jeu des Dames, by Francois Ayroles (5/29/07)
* La Venenuese aux deux eperons, by Stephane Blanquet (5/10/07)
* Gus, by Christophe Blain (4/19/07)
* NonNonBa, Shigeru Mizuki (4/5/07)
* Panier de Singe, Florent Ruppert and Jerome Mulot (3/15/07)
* Sergent Laterreur, Gerald Frydman and Touis (3/8/07)
* Canicola, Various (3/6/07)
* Lupus Vol. 4, Frederik Peeters (2/22/07)
* Pourquoi j'ai tuee Pierre, Alfred and Olivier Ka (2/16/07)
* Lewis Trondheim and the Fate of L'Association (2/8/07)
* In Angouleme 2007 (1/29/07)
* World Trade Angels, Laurent Cilluffo (1/18/07)
* Priape, Nicolas Presl (1/12/07)
* On the ACBD Status Report for 2006 (1/3/07)

* Le Photographe Vol. 3, Emmanuel Guibert (12/14/06)
* Lucille, Ludovic Debeurme (11/22/06)
* Mon Fiston, Olivier Schrauwen (10/29/06)
* La Trilogie de Monsieur Ahi, Franco Mattichio (9/7/06)
* La Fugue, Pascal Blanchet (8/14/06)
* Les Complots Nocturnes, David B. (8/3/06)
* L'Eprouvette, Various (7/27/06)
* Bardin le Superrealiste, Max (7/13/06)
* I Am Not These Feet, Your Name is Krishangi and Two Stories, Kaisa Leka (7/11/06)
* L'Association en Inde, Various (7/7/06)
* Bebe 2000, Caroline Sury (6/29/06)
* On Danijel Zezelj (6/23/06)
* Pattes De Mouches, Various (6/14/06)
* Chasseur-Cueilleur, Joann Sfar (5/16/06)
* L'Etrangleur, Jacques Tardi (5/5/06)
* What SPX Can Learn From Fumetto (4/14/06)
* Report from Fumetto 2006 (4/10/06)
* Honey Talks, from StripBurger (3/22/06)
* Mister I by Lewis Trondheim; Louis au ski by Guy Delisle (3/9/06)
* Cargo: Comic Journalism Israel-Germany, Various (2/24/06)
* Angouleme 2006 Report and Photo Gallery (1/31/06)
* Angouleme Preview (1/25/06)
* L'Elite a la portee du tous, Etienne Lecroart (1/20/06)

* Scroubabble, L'Association (12/29/05)
* La Malle Sanderson, Jean-Claude Gotting (11/8/05)
* Total Jazz, Blutch (11/1/05)
* Crazyman, Edmond Baudoin (10/17/05)
* Meder, Jean-Christophe Menu (9/20/05)
* Safari Monseigneur, Florent Ruppert and Jerome Mulot (9/7/05)
* Prestige de l'uniforme, Loo Hui Phang and Hugues Micol (8/11/05)
* Hante, Philippe Dupuy (8/3/05)
* Should we hate the new Futuropolis? (7/19/05)
* L'Aventure des opposants, Boris Bakulin (7/13/05)
* Va & Vient, Emmanuel Guibert (6/20/05)
* CHRZ, Stefan van Dinther (6/16/05)
* Laurence Harle's Passing (6/7/05)
* Live From London (Ontario) (6/2/05)
* Melancholia, Aymeric Hainaux (5/24/05)
* Cinema Panopticum, Thomas Ott (5/5/05)
* Dateline: Luzern (5/3/05)
* Dateline: Geneva (4/12/05)
* Dateline: London (4/7/05)
* Plates-bandes, Jean-Christophe Menu (3/30/05)
* Desoeuvre, Lewis Trondheim (3/25/05)
* Hic Sunt Leones (3/16/05)
* Smart Monkey, Winshluss (3/8/05)
* Incognito: Victimes Parfaites, Gregory Mardon (2/26/05)
* Salvatore: Transports amoureux, Nicholas de Crecy (2/22/05)
* Panorama, Cedric Manche and Loo Hui Phang (2/17/05)