No Lying, It's Lyon!

So I have a little interview in Lyon based Zyva Magazine (see below post) and I just received a copy of the new Scarce magazine, also from Lyon. It's a whopping issue and inside there is very cool review of my book and some little drawings too. If you like in depth commentary on all things comic books, buy a copy in shops or online.(It's in French)

To celebrate this sudden love affair with France's third largest city here is a Lyon themed post!

Back in May 2012 one of the book shops I stopped at on my little book tour was Librairie Expérience in Lyon.
It's a legendary book shop that everybody seems to know about. It's very cool (literally too in the stinking Lyon heat). It's a few cave-like rooms with hundreds of drawings on the walls by some of the biggest, maddest, talented and amazing cartoonists.


As I was there to sign books, tradition had it that before I left I should squiggle on the walls too. (I picked a really awkward spot on the ceiling next to Cha, Bouzard, Larcenet, Chauzy, Jason, Guarnido and many others that are way out of my league!)

FACTS ABOUT LYON:
- They eat things called Quenelles. Delicious pillowy things in thick sauce that rhyme with 'fuckin 'ell'.
- It gets really, really hot in Lyon.
- It's kind of in the south of France. But not very south.

(click the pictures)

- Lyon has trams.

- Lyon has a big old church called Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière on top of a massive hill that you can go up in an underground funiculaire (2 minutes) and come down in sticky socks (18 hours approx).

- Kings Of Lyon are a Kings Of Leon tribute band and are not from Lyon.

SCARCE special Free Comic Book Day

Oui, oui, avec une histoire inédite et exclusive par moi!

Samedi prochain, le 5 Mai,  rendez-vous dans un de ces magasins de BD pour recevoir un exemplaire GRATUIT du recueil de BDs SCARCE FCBD! ( attention, quantités limitées):

AVIGNON: Comic Book - BORDEAUX: Album - LE HAVRE: Label bulles - LILLE: Astro City - LYON: Comics Zone, Bd en Bulles, L'experience et l'Experience Bis - NANTES: A plein Rêves - NICE: Les Fictionautes - PARIS: Apokalyps, Pop Culture, Déesse et Pulps - REIMS: Bederama - RENNES: Ty Bulle Tome 2. - ROCHEFORT: Bulles en Cavale - STARSBOURG: Cyclops - TOULOUSE: Album - WEB: Gourvy Comics - BELGIQUE, BRUXELLES: Forbidden Zone

Scarce mag #76

Scarce magazine  issue 76 will be out just in time for Angouleme and here is the review for my book which will be in it...

 

(If you don't speak French, it's mostly good stuff with a bit that goes "Seemingly obsessed with the flesh, David Z Greene, a sort of Cheery Cronenberg, promises to be an original author worth following.")

Something a little different....

A little something I did a few months ago for my friends at Scarce Magazine in France. It was my first superhero in about 10 years!