Morvan and Bucher on Wolverine

[kelvingreen]

Great news, as it'll no doubt be spectacular, but I do think it's a shame that they didn't do something like buy the rights to publish Sillage/Wake or something, rather than tying these guys to the same old superhero stuff. Oh well...

[Peter Bangs]

I love Morvan's writing on Spirou and Fantasio. Along with Thorgal it was the comic that inspired me to learn French so I could actually read them. Spirou is a wonderful action comic with a decent splash of humour. Can't say I care about him writing Wolverine, too many other fine Eurocomics to read.

[kelvingreen]

Currently, I'm reading their work in translated form, but soon I'll be moving back to Blighty, and I'll brush up on my GCSE French so I can hop across the channel and buy the original comics.

[Winslow]

When did Marvel start publishing graphic novels? (NOT TPBS - collections of montly pamphlets)

I'll pick this up because I love WAKE. But it's hard for me to imagine Buchet's 9 panel's per page on a standard American-sized pamphlet.

[XIII]

This is supposed to be part of a wider initiative from Panini, the company that reprints Marvel across Europe, to bring European authors to do original stuff with Marvel characters.

The first and only effort so far was made in Italy with Spiderman, an original graphic novel set in Venice, which was also published in France under the banner MARVEL TRANSATLANTIQUE (http://www.paninicomicsfrance.com/NosParutions.jsp?Action=Carica&Id=8410)

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[Ivan Isaacs]

When did Marvel start publishing graphic novels?

Hmmm... 1982? ;)

Morvan is a great writer (but his first Spirou volume wasn't THAT good) and Buchet is a hell of an artist. I'm looking forward to this.

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Yeah, I have that (not that I'm able to read it but, oh well...). It's by two Disney creators (Tito Faraci and Giorgio Cavazzano). Gemstone recently released the Disney GN "Dragonlords" drawn by Cazzano (who also does a lot of Duck stories as well as the short lived series "The great Mouse Detective" (sp?). Great artist, too.