A VERY UNIQUE ENCOUNTER This project was formed as part of the celebrations of the 120th anniversary of Franco-Korean diplomatic relations with the support of the French Embassy in Seoul. "In the very heart of Seoul, close to the Central Station and a stone's throw from the hotel where the French authors of this collection stayed, a huge billboard illustrates a visionary picture. The French high-speed TGV train route (KTX in Korean) links Seoul to Paris and Paris to Seoul with just a single line. For the Koreans it is not a joke, nor wild imagination, it is a project! So while you are waiting to travel to Seoul by land, here is the magic of the graphic novel with twelve Korean and French stories: escape to Korea for a while. Bon voyage." -Nicolas Finet, author, editor and journalist.
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Pseudonym of Catherine Muller, who has also published as Catherine Muler, Cathy Muller, and Catel Muller. Source: http://www.catel-m.com/Site-officiel-... Catel Muller, diplômée des Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, débute sa carrière en publiant des albums pour enfants aux éditions Hachette, Épigones, Nathan, Dupuis et Hatier. Une sélection au festival international du livre de jeunesse de Bologne et une cinquantaine d’ouvrages illustrés jalonnent cette partie de son œuvre. Catel illustre également L’Encyclo des filles chez Plon qui s’impose comme un best-seller auprès des adolescentes depuis dix ans. Parallèlement, Catel Muller s’adresse pour la première fois aux adultes en 2000 avec la série Lucie qui ouvre la voie à une certaine bande dessinée féminine aux préoccupations contemporaines. En 2005, elle obtient le prix du public au festival d'Angoulême pour l'album Le Sang des Valentines illustré et écrit en collaboration avec Christian de Metter. En 2007, elle reçoit le prix RTL puis en 2008 le prix du Public Essentiel à Angoulême pour le roman graphique Kiki de Montparnasse mis en image d’après le scénario de José Louis Bocquet. Depuis, Catel Muller poursuit ses évocations de destins de femmes avec des albums consacrés à l’historienne d’art Rose Valland, la chanteuse Edith Piaf et l’actrice Mireille Balin. Ce dernier album, intitulé Dolor et écrit par Philippe Paringaux, a été sélectionné Hors-compétition au festival d’Angoulême 2010. Actuellement, Catel Muller prépare un roman graphique sur Olympe de Gouges chez Casterman avec José-Louis Bocquet. Elle travaille également sur un ouvrage inspiré d’entretiens particuliers avec Benoîte Groult à paraître chez Grasset. 1990 - Maitrise d’Arts plastiques - Faculté de Stasbourg. 1989 - Diplôme d’illustration des Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg.
Igort is an Italian illustrator, comic book artist, writer, publisher, film director and musician. He is considered a key figure in the development of European graphic novels. Igor Tuveri was born in 1958 in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. At age 20 Tuveri moved to Bologne and started publishing comics with the pen name Igort. His early works appeared in 'Linus', a famous Italian comic magazine aimed at an adult readership, of which Igort himself will become editor-in-chief in the 2000's. In the 80's Igort founded the independent magazines 'Il Pinguino' and 'Dolce Vita' with fellow cartoonists from the so-called 'Valvoline' collective. The collective included artists Daniele Brolli, Roberto Baldazzini, Lorenzo Mattotti, Giorgio Carpinteri, as well as American cartoonist Charles Burns. Igort's works from this period include Goodbye Baobab (1982), a story set in Japan in the 40s and co-created with Daniele Brolli, and Ishiki no kashi - Il letargo dei sentimenti (1984), a comic taking place in a futuristic version of Japan. Igort is also one of the first Western authors to have worked in the Japanese manga industry, most notably with the series Yuri (1996) for Kōdansha. In 2000, Igort founded his own publishing house, Coconino Press. The publisher played an important role in the development of the 'graphic novel movement' in Italy, releasing new works by national and international authors, as well as classic works by cartoonist like Jacques Tardi, Daniel Clowes, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Will Eisner, and so on. In 2017 Igort left Coconino to found a new publishing house, called Oblomov Press. Between 2008 and 2009, Igort travelled through the Ukraine, Russia and Siberia, carrying out research for the books Quaderni Ucraini (2010, Ukrainian Notebooks) and Quaderni Russi (2011, Russian Notebooks). Together with the two volumes of Quaderni Giapponesi (2015-2017, Japanese Notebooks), these form a trilogy of illustration travel notebooks. In 2019, Igort directed the live action film adaptation of his most famous graphic novel, 5 is the Perfect Number (2002), starring actors Toni Servillo and Valeria Golino. Besides drawing, writing, publishing and occasionally working in cinema, Igort has also been a life long musician. Since 2022 he hosts a Youtube Channel on the medium of comics, called 'lezionidifumetto·it'.
