BD Research

Suggested introductory reading
Introduction to reading on the BD.

http://www.comicsresearch.org/
Site comprising comprehensive bibliography of writing about bande dessinée and international comic art. A detailed content description is provided for most works together with a critical review. A particularly helpful section provides bibliographic references for specific BD genres - crime, horror etc.



http://www.comicsresearch.org/CAC/cite.html
How to cite comic art in scholarly work.

http://www.english.ufl.edu/comics/scholars/index.html
The comix-scholars@clas.ufl.edu list serves as an academic forum for those involved in research, criticism and teaching related to comics art. All aspects of comics and cartooning from around the world are open for discussion. Likewise, theoretical and critical perspectives from all academic fields are invited.

http://www.ecritetdessine.org/
Site dedicated to the promotion of bande dessinée as a culturally respectable art-form. The site includes reviews of contemporary BD production and a comprehensive guide to the history of BD with profiles of leading artists and popular strips. There is also an impressive bibliography with content reviews of many important publications categorised by genre.

http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/
Profiles of leading Francophone artists and features on popular strips.

http://www.katydo.com/egon/links.shtml
Richly informative site comprising links to artists, publications, publishers, organisations, on-line comics, archives and more.....

http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/spec_coll/comix/index.html
The archives of an underground comics publisher, including pre-press proofs and finished product comic books. An on-line database of 1000+ items locates the shelving number of materials held in the Special Collections Department at the Robert E Kennedy Library at California Polytechnic State University. Scanned images of a selection of the collection are available on the site.

http://www.bdscope.org/
New BD, reviews and special 'dossiers' on BD artists including Loisel, Pratt, Trondheim, Tardi and Jacobs. The site also includes information about forthcoming events and competitions on the BD calendar.

http://www.cartoonresearch.com/
A site dedicated to US cartoon animation with a database of references to all animated features released in the States since 1937.

http://www.imaginet.fr/universbd/dossiers/femmesbd/
Page about the history of the participation of women in the bande dessinée industry. Fifteen featured 'planches' provide a brief overview of the work of women scénaristes and dessinateurs.

UK Libraries

http://www.institut-francais.org.uk/
The Institut français based in London has an excellent BD library comprising reference books, magazines and albums. Please email marie.lavillesbrunne@ambafrance.org.uk for further details.

http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/index.html
Glasgow University Library has a substantial collection of bande dessinée material (including some Topffers!) complemented by a suberb text/image collection from the Renaissance.

Organisations

http://www.citebd.org
Site of the Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image, Angoulême, France. Information on exhibitions, forthcoming events and courses in the BD art.

http://www.cbbd-bcb.org/
Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée web site. Currently available only in Flemish..the site nevertheless offers an interesting range of Belgium BD images. The French language site appears to be under construction.

Artists

http://www.goscinny.net/
Official site of René Goscinny.

http://www.stardom.fr/
Official site of Jean Giraud alias Moebius.

http://www.chez.com/fredch/gotlib.html
http://vialupo.jcldb.com/dossiers/gotlib.html
http://membres.lycos.fr/nsloz/pages/gotlib.html
Fan sites dedicated to Marcel Gotlib.

http://www.leconcombre.com/
Site dedicated to the strip 'concombre masqué' and to the work of its creator, Mandryka.

http://www.hollywoodcomics.com/forest.html
A fan's tribute to BD artist Jean-Claude Forest including features on the artist's principal strips, a bibliography, a reproduction of an interview with the artist and numerous scanned images of his work.

http://www.jije.org/
Official site of La Musée Jijé dedicated to the work of Joseph Gillain alias BD artist Jijé creator of Spirou, Jean Valhardi and Jerry Spring.

http://gciment.free.fr/bdoubapo.htm
Site of BD group Oubapo comprising interviews with Fred and Giraud, critical writing on contemporary BD and a presentation of the current stylistic preoccupations of the group of which Jean-Christophe Menu, Lewis Trondheim and Thierry Groensteen are the most well known members.

Journals

http://www.bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/
Inventory of strips, artists and editorial features appearing in Pilote hebdomadaire, Pilote mensuel, Super Pocket Pilote etc.
http://www.bdoubliees.com/vaillantpif/index.html
Inventory of strips, artists and editorial features appearing in Vaillant and Pif.

http://www.bdoubliees.com/journaltintin/index.html
Inventory of strips, artists and editorial features appearing in Tintin.

http://www.bdoubliees.com/journalspirou/index.html
Inventory of strips, artists and editorial features appearing in Spirou.

http://www.bdoubliees.com/mickey/index.html
Inventory of strips, artists and editorial features appearing in Le Journal de Mickey.

Conferences/colloques

http://go.to/icaf
International Comic Arts Festival, Georgetown University, Washington DC

International

http://www.chez.com/lereb/comixlinx.htm
Links to international comic sites.

http://www.bdquebec.qc.ca/
Site dedicated to BD in Quebec. The site contains profiles of authors and reviews of their work, latest BD news and forthcoming events.

Miscellaneous

http://www.bugpowder.com/
Pete Ashton's excellent UK web site dedicated primarily to the promotion of the small press/independant comic industry. The site includes reviews of both underground and industry comics and details of where to find them."[Bugpowder] embraces good, groundbreaking comics no matter where they come from, be they published by a multinational media company or published by a guy in his bedsit - it's a love thing" says Pete :).

http://www.cartoonbank.com/
Latest cartoons from 'The New Yorker'.

http://www.BuyComicArt.co.uk/
Buy only original, signed one-off comic art and cartoons from new and emerging artists.

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