KARAMEL

Bête Noire #1

The alternative comics movement has gone worldwide, with cauldrons of activity in a number of countries. With Bête Noire, editor Christopher Polkki has set himself the daunting task of corralling all these exciting movements into one fantastically dynamic quarterly English-language anthology, with 88 pages of new or previously untranslated comics from two dozen top-notch cartoonists acclaimed for their work in such cutting-edge publications as Kramers Ergot, Cornélius, Le Dernier Cri, and L’Association. Featuring Helge Reumann (Switzerland); Ludovic Debeurme(France); Adam Dant (UK); Anke Feuchtenberger (Germany); Yuichi Yokoyama (Japan); Ben Jones (USA); Reijo Karkkainen (Finland); Peter Köhler (Sweden); Olaf Ladousse (Spain); Fabio Viscogliosi (Italy), and Henriette Valium (Canada). David Heatley will be providing the covers for the first four issues, four “seasonally-themed” wraparounds which, when complete, will form a single spectacular four-and-half-foot long frieze.

88 pages, b/w and colour, softcover.
Fantagraphics.
8.5” X 7”