[FRENCH ONLY]
Dimanche 21 Octobre, dans le cadre du week-end LIRE EN FÊTE consacré à la Bande Dessinée, le Centre Culturel de Chelles (77) avec la librairie Album Val d'Europe, organise une séance de Questions/Réponses avec Fabrice Sapolsky, Rédacteur en Chef de Comic Box autour du thème "Comics et Cinéma".

Quand : Dimanche 21/10
À quelle heure : 16 heures
Où : Centre Culturel de Chelles, place des Martyrs de Châteaubriant à Chelles (77).
Combien : C'est gratuit !


Faites passer le mot…

[French] Salut à tous,

Oui, le blog est resté trop longtemps sans mise à jour… Je sais. Mais des nuits courtes (dues aux préparation de nos nombreux magazines) ont eu raison de mon assiduité sur le blog.
Enfin… Comic Box est parti à l'imprimerie il y a deux heures et nous en sommes plutôt contents. Certains d'entre vous, qui ont été sur le nouveau site de CB ont pu avoir un aperçu de la splendide couverture Spawn signée Greg Capullo. Exclusive comme toujours.
Pour le reste du magazine, voilà quelques infos pour vous faire saliver :
des interviews de Jim Lee (All Star Batman), Alan Davis (FF: The End, Excalibur), Robert Kirkman (Walking Dead, Marvel Zombie), Daniel Way (Wolverine Origins) et Michael Golden (Micronauts, The Nam).

Côté articles, vous saurez tout sur les coulisses de la mort de Captain America, sur les comics Star Wars prévus pour 2008, sur le projet The Initiative et bien plus !

Comme toujours, Comic Box ouvre ses colonnes à la BD avec cette fois : une aventure de Virgin Comics, en exclusivité française, et une aventure de Stan Lee et du Silver Surfer, dessinée par le regretté Mike Wieringo.

On attends vite votre avis…

FS

Comic Box49 sera en vente dès le 13.10 partout en France et en Belgique.

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[English] Hi all !

Yes, I know. The blog was like the desert for a month or so. Well, blame the deadlines and the numerous magazines we had to complete with our small dedicated team.
But rush is behind us (while we wait for the next wave…). Comic Box49 was sent to the printer a few hours ago and we're pretty satisfied with it. Those of you who browsed the www.comicbox.com website were already able to get a glimpse of the splendid Spawn cover made exclusively for us by Greg Capullo.

This issue also included its share of interviews : Jim Lee (All Star Batman), Alan Davis (FF: The End, Excalibur), Robert Kirkman (Walking Dead, Marvel Zombie), Daniel Way (Wolverine Origins) et Michael Golden (Micronauts, The Nam).

And many features covering both the French US comics market and the American one, as usual. We also publish comic stories that are completely exclusive to the French market like one of the Virgin0 stories and the Silver Surfer tale by Stan Lee and Mike Wieringo, our homage to this unforgettable and extraordinary artist gone too soon.

As always, Comic Box is available in French starting 10.13.07.
Don't forget to check our website often with more and more content in english (and even more to come !).

Waiting for feedback from you guys…

FS

Hi !

Comic Box49 will be in stores in about a month or so but we already have something to show you about it… Check it at : www.comicbox.com

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Salut à tous !

Comic Box49 sera disponible dans un peu plus d'un mois, mais nous avons déjà quelque chose à partager avec vous… Connectez-vous sur : www.comicbox.com pour en savoir plus !

Hello !

C'est un nouveau jour pour Spider-Man et voilà un nouveau Comic Box en ce pluvieux mois d'août. À défaut de le lire sur la plage, lisez le chez vous (ou chez des amis), bien tranquillement.

COMIC BOX48 donc, au menu :

• 2 BD inédites de Flash (McGuinness/Loeb) et des New Gods (Simonson/Miller/Lee). Du gros gibier pour les fanboys & girls !
• Des interviews comme s'il en pleuvait (c'est de saison) : John Romita Jr, Christos N.Gage, Matt Fraction, Brian Bolland et notre cover artist de choc : David Finch !
• Iron Man le film (avec l'interview de Robert Downey Jr, l'homme qui joue Tony Stark) et… la série animée ! Premières infos sur la nouvelle série consacrée au Vengeur doré et réalisée en France !
• Le compte-rendu du Comicon
et bien plus !

Courez vite chez votre marchand de journaux ou dans le comic shop le plus proche !

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Hi all !

It's a "brand new day" for Spider-Man and here's a new Comic Box on this rainy month !
Issue 48 will leave you wanting for more with numerous and terrific features such as :

• 2 comic stories from DC and still unpublished in France : Flash (McGuinness/Loeb) and Tales of the New Gods (Simonson/Miller/Lee). Great value for fanboys & girls !
• It's raining interviews ! (alleluyah) : John Romita Jr, Christos N.Gage, Matt Fraction, Brian Bolland and our INCREDIBLE cover artist : David Finch !
• Iron Man the movie (we got words from Robert Downey Jr, AKA Tony Stark) and… the animated series ! Get the first glimpse of the new show starring the golden Avenger and created… in France !
• All the news and coverage from the Comicon
And MUCH MORE !

Comic Box48. In newsstands and comic shops NOW ! (still here ? What are you waiting for ???)

The "Unthinkable"* has happened last Sunday. Mike Wieringo died at 44. Saying this actually hurts my throat. Gone too soon ? Hell yeah. I know about people dying too young, my own father died at the tender age of 34. But, anyway, Mike passed away and it's not fair.
I can't say Mike was a close friend, but he was a friend of mine and of the entire Comic Box team anyway. I read Cully Hamner's beautiful prose today and he writes that Mike was "everybody's friend". It feels so true. I met Mike in the flesh in 1999 at the Angouleme festival where he was invited to promote Tellos. He always liked Comic Box. I think we were among the first to support strongly Tellos, putting the series on the cover of our magazine (for collectors, it was Comic Box19, Jan.'99). We even granted Tellos a special treatment. At the time, CB was sold under a blister. This very month, we tried the foiled blister with a 4-color printing of the cover over it.
Over the years, we kept in touch from time to time. Late 2005, I called him up and asked him for an interview. We chatted for two hours before i realized that my recorder didn't record anything of the interview. As a result, we had to do it again a few days after. Mike wasn't mad about it. He appreciated that we could talk comics, because he loved comics so much.
And when we asked for an exclusive cover, he was really happy. So happy in fact that he offered it to us. This is how we knew Mike. A very generous guy. By any standards, he was a real "mensch".
Then the issue (CB3/38) came out and he was concerned that the translation didn't reflect what he was thinking of his current work (let's just say that "the Other", the Spider-Man saga, wasn't among his favorites). We argued then put this behind us and move on. This wasn't a very important disagreement anyway and had no consequences.
We cexchanged a few emails after that. He was very supportive and gave me lots of good advice for my personal projects.

Mike can never be replaced or duplicated. He was one of a kind. One of the best pencillers in the cartoony style that he (and I) loved so much. One of the best guys in comics. He kept on saying that his name wasn't selling and that he didn't recognized himself in today's comics, prefering looking at "the old stuff". Mike brought so much. A lot of Europeans like myself encouraged him to come here and try this market. Fate happened and it sucks. We'll never know what his new Tellos adventures will look like. We will miss him very much.

We'll dedicate our next issue to him. May he rest in peace.

Fabrice Sapolsky w/the Comic Box team.


For those who don't know Mike's wonderful works, check : Tellos, Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Superman and so many other stuff !

* Unthinkable is one of the best (if not the best) Fantastic Four storyline ever produced these past years, written by Mark Waid for Mike Wieringo to pencil.

[English Only]

The COMIC BOX crew will be attending the San Diego Comic Con 2007. You're welcome to contact us for any purpose (business with us, coverage of your comics or even a coffee !). To set up a meeting, please contact me : fabrice@fullfx.biz.

F.

Salut à tous !

Non, nous n'avons pas fui pour la Zone Negative… Nous sommes juste un brin en retard. Mais à l'heure où j'écris ces lignes, nous mettons la toute dernière main à COMIC BOX HORS SERIE. Il devrait être en vente la semaine prochaine.
La couverture (à découvrir dans notre banque d'images) est signée par l'incroyable Gerald Parel.
Inclus : une BD exclusive de X-Men : Deadly Genesis.
Ce numéro spécial de 132 pages est bourré d'infos, d'interviews et d'analyses sur les mutants, tels que les X-Men, ainsi que sur les mutants de la télé, les Heroes.

Ne le ratez pas !

Fabrice

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Hi all !

No, we haven't dissapeared in the Negative Zone… We're just a bit late. But at present time, we're putting the finishing touches to the COMIC BOX SPECIAL. It should hit the streets next week. The astonishing cover is from the incredible Gerald Parel.
It was hard to deliver, but I think it'll be worth the wait : 132 pages of info, interviews and comments on the merry mutants, the X-Men, as well as, features on the unescapable Heroes.
Don't miss it if you can !

Fabrice

Hello à tous !

Le temps passe vite… Demain débute la Japan Expo. Comme prévu, l'équipe de Comic Box sera là-bas (stand FD45). Vous pourrez découvrir nos creations BD, rencontrer nos artistes, des rédacteurs de Comic Box et… peut-être repartir avec le badge officiel du magazine !

F.

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Hi all ! (again)

Time flies… Tomorrow is the first day of the Japan Expo where, as planned, the Comic Box crew will be (booth FD45). You'll be able to discover our own comics, meet our artists and CB staffers and… maybe come back home with one of the official "Comic Box : Think Inside the Box" badges !

F.

Hello à tous !

Comme vous le savez, Comic Box aime les fan arts. Ces derniers temps, nous n'avons pas été assommés de dessins de lecteurs. Donc… Pour les artistes en herbes, nous attendons vos œuvres ! envoyez vos dessins à : zemo@comicbox.com

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Hi all !

As you may not know, Comic Box loves fanarts. These past few months, we haven't been floored by the number of drawings we got. So… for all you amateurs of art out there, we need you ! Send your chef d'œuvres at : zemo@comicbox.com.
If the crew loves your work, you'll be published !

Salut à tous !

le site de LCI-TF1 propose une interview de Fabrice Sapolsky, rédacteur en chef de Comic Box à l'occasion de la diffusion en France des premiers épisodes de HEROES, le samedi 30 Juin dès 20h50.
http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/culture/0,,3479263,00-heroes-analyse-phenomene-.html

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Hi all !

HEROES is finally broadcasted in France starting tomorrow, on national channel TF1.
LCI, TF1's sister newschannel has interviewed Comic Box's editor in chief Fabrice Sapolsky about comics and the series.
Available here in French : http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/culture/0,,3479263,00-heroes-analyse-phenomene-.html