With all our special comic book guests announced, it’s time to let you all know who else will be at Kings Heath Comic Con. Today we shine a light on Cinebook, a wonderful publisher specialising in English-language translations of European Bande Dessinée, like Lucky Luke, Valerian, Thorgal and many, many more.
As a kid, I found such graphic novels almost impossible to find in the wild. The odd Lucky Luke here and there, but nothing as exotic as Bluecoats or Blake & Mortimer. And now, you lucky lot get to sift through a HUGE collection of books from some of Europe’s greatest creators. I may be tempted myself, with such a variety of titles and genres to choose from. Needless to say, I’ll be stocking up on some comic books myself.
Here’s more about Cinebooks:
Cinebook, Publisher of the best-selling European comic books for all ages.
“For many English-speaking readers, knowledge of European comic books is limited to popular characters Tintin and Asterix.
Lucky Luke, Iznogoud, Blake & Mortimer, XIII, Valerian, Thorgal, Largo Winch, Spirou & Fantasio, Billy & Buddy, Yakari, the Bluecoats, Yoko Tsuno, Buck Danny, Cedric . . . These European comic book characters, already boasting more than 300 million copies sold, are featured stars in Cinebook’s catalogue.
The comic book and its close relative, the graphic novel, are a highly respected art form in France, Belgium and the rest of Western Europe—so well regarded that Cinebook takes our tagline (“The 9th Art Publisher”) from the classification of comic books as No. 9 on the list of plastic arts in Europe (Plastic Art list: 1st-Architecture; 2nd-Painting; 3rd-Sculpture; 4th-Engraving; 5th-Drawing; 6th-Photo; 7th-Cinema; 8th-Television; 9th-Comic books), In fact, one of every eight books sold in France is a comic book.
Since the end of 2005, Cinebook has worked to become the premier publisher of the Franco-Belgian Ninth Art in English in markets dominated by American superhero comics and Japanese manga.
Cinebook selects series and individual titles based on a number of factors in order to please a wide range of readers—factors such as geographic settings, protagonists’ age and gender, historic themes, genres, etc.”
You can check out their entire catalogue and the kind of albums they will be bringing to the con at their official webpage: cinebooks.co.uk
