French publisher Le Lombard has teased the release of Green Witch Village, the latest project from writer Lewis Trondheim and artist Franck Biancarelli, out next month in French.
New York, 1959. Tabatha is preparing for another day as a young city girl, alongside her two roommates and her job search. Except that Tabatha is no longer Tabatha. Her body is now possessed by the mind of a woman from 2025… Who wonders how she has got there. But with no time to come to her senses, she will have to survive this strange time, and its permanent sexism. And then there are the Nazi terrorists and atomic bombs that threaten to destroy the city, too…
Needless to say, the story is intriguing, and art teased by Le Lombard absolutely gorgeous. Check out full details here on the Le Lombard website.
Surely it won’t be long before an English language publisher picks this up?
Lewis and Frank previously worked on the series, Karmela Krimm, for Le Lombard, a gripping detective story set in the heart of Marseilles.
Born in 1964 in Fontainebleau, Lewis Trondheim had a dull childhood and an uneventful adolescence. When he was 15, he copied his cousin, and went to a technical college. He tried for his first diploma — science and mechanics — but he was so bad at it that they repatriated him to philosophy and literature. With his philosophy Baccalaureate in the bag, he started out in comics because he fancied telling stories and wanted to try out drawing. He was curious and wanted to do something a bit unconventional. Around the age of 25, armed with a photocopier, he single-handedly published a fanzine, which lasted for 12 issues.
On discovering that minimalist art has its limits, he decided to learn how to draw. And he came up with Lapinot et les carottes de Patagonie (L’Association et le lézard, 1992, 2nd ed. L’Association, 1995). It was in 1990, with five other artists, that he founded the editorial structure L’Association, realising that you can actually make a living in this field. He left Paris for the South, became a dad and then joined up with publisher Dargaud in 1995 with the fourth volume of the Formidables aventures de Lapinot (The Marvelous Adventures of McConey, Europe Comics 2018). He received a prize at Angouleme in 1994 for the album Slaloms (L’Association, 1993), and in 1996 he received the Comic Book Totem at the Montreuil Book Fair.
He is the author of an incredible number of comics and graphic novels spanning almost every genre. His books include Poppies of Iraq, the Angoulême-winning Slaloms, and Maggy Garrisson, published by SelfMadeHero.
Trondheim was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature in 2005. The following year he received the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.
Having started his professional life as a math teacher, Franck Biancarelli found his way into the world of comic books with the help of Christian Rossi, who showed him the ropes. In 1997, Biancarelli published his first comic book, Héritier du trône, the first volume in the Argyll de Maracande series (Soleil), with Dominique Latil on the script. After that, he worked with Jean-Charles Gaudin for Galfalek (Soleil). Next came the first volume of Livre des destins (Soleil), which he created with Serge Le Tendre. The series was nominated at the Angoulême International Comics Festival the following year. In 2006 and 2008, he participated in the collections Paroles de poilus (Soleil) Paroles d’étoiles (Soleil).
His main influences are American authors such as Alex Toth and Gil Kane, but also Noel Sickles, Milton Caniff, Neal Adams, Joe Kubert and, more generally, all the ‘classic’ comic book artists.
Contacted in early 2011 by Dargaud and Denis Robert (a journalist, writer and artist), Franck agreed to take on Le Circuit Mandelberg (Europe Comics, 2016), an adaptation of Dunk (Juillard, 2009), one of Robert’s previous novels. In 2016, their collaboration continued with the release of Grand Est (Dargaud).
• Check out full details of Green Witch Village here on the Le Lombard website
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Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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