Projects

This page summarize the projects related to this website, you can read more on GRANDPAPIER itself here.

PROJECTS:

• 24 hour comics 2010 (2010)next
• revenge (2009)
• 24 hour comics 2009 (2009)
• Minneapolis John (2008-...) ongoing
• 24 hour comics 08 @ bxl (2008)
• CRRISP! anthology (2007)

24h comics 2010

Grandpapier organises its 3rd session of 24h comics. Like last year between 30 and 40 comic artists will participate from Brussels, and a lot more are annouced around the world (more details on this to come soon).

This event will be held this year in coordination with the great Periscopage festival in Rennes.

Date 29th to 30th of May 2010, from 2PM to 2PM GMT+2

Where Right here on thi website!

Revenge

Revenge is not a four-letter word; it is as common as exhaling after inhaling; a symmetrical response to an equal but opposite action- but hey, who’s measuring? This interchangeable payback, open to interpretation, with tit paying for tat, and this for that, does tend to spiral out of control and, sure, it may involve family, honor, vengeance and a gravestone or two (Confucius say; when thinking of revenge always remember to dig two graves), but it need not be so dramatic. Revenge is also winning the second round, third time lucky, and having the last laugh.

Revenge is the theme of the upcoming Samandal and Employe Du Moi publication scheduled for release late in 2009. To submit you’ll need a grandpapier account (just create a new story and add the ’revenge’ keyword).

Please keep in mind the following specifications:

Technical guidelines

• 18 x 25cm

• Color or black and white

• In Arabic and/or French – and/or english (the later will be translated).
• The final selection for the book – and deadline is November 10.

Please note: you need a GRANDPAPIER account to participate (see the join us page if you’re not in yet).

24 hour comics 2009

More than 70 comic artists have join the 2009 24h comics from grandpier. The event was held from the 23rd of May 2PM GMT+2 to Sunday the 24th, same time.

You can check the blog (in French) to get an idea of the fun and pain that went through the catoonists.

All stories are gathered on this page.

Minneapolis John

(started August 08)

This time there is no imposed topic or type, no specific style or form constrain. The stake is different. We ask our comic artists to produce one or several 3-page-minimum comics without being recognized.

Under cover, with a chosen alias and a style quite different, they should produce unrecognizable quality content! They work on the website with a new login specifically dedicated to their new work and this will be clearly marked for the public as such. Speculation about your real identity will surely arise and many will try in vain to find out who’s hiding behind this new artwork. It’s time for them to try the unthinkable. Why not create something different? Be virtuoso, rebellious, feminine, masculine, obscene, sweet, meticulous, maniac, pathetic, well-ordered, erotic, colored, classic or radical. Everything is possible and can be tried. To add excitement to this new game, external comic artists will also be invited to join in.

All the stories related to this project are grouped on this page.

GRANDPAPIER comic artists having already an account can ask for one to many alias accounts freely. However if you’d like to join in for that specific alias project only, you can do so by going through the usual JOIN US page. In that case don’t forget to tell us that your asking for a Minneapolis Account.

24 hour comics

29 comics artist have to produce 24 pages during a 24 hour time frame from the 28th of Jun 2008 to the next day 1PM. Most of the comics are available for reading here. A blog with pictures and videos is on this page.

Artists involved:

Bulu, Louis Vanardois, Guillaume Hanna, Laurent Dandoy, Sacha Goerg, Joanna Lorho, Joseph Falzon, Bert, Max de Radiguès, David Libens, Olive Booger, Alex de Moté, Abdel Bouzbiba, M. Pimpant, Florent Grouazel, Rémi Luca, Garène, Younn Locard, Brice Dumas, Cyprien Mathieu, G#rom, Stéphane Noël, Gaspard Ryelandt, Anne Simon, JC Menu

Later arrived : Cédric Manche and Christophe Poot

And from Paris : Singeon

And the video:

CRRISP anthology

GRANDPAPIER comics artists were proposed to produce scary and/or gore comics stories on this website. Anyone could be read the ongoing stories, a page listing them is available here. A book was then made – named CRRISP – with a selection of the best comics. The anthology with its 416 pages and more than 20 artists is in your local bookstore since June 2008. More infos and pictures on the employé du Moi website.

The rules were:

a - You have to get your GRANDPAPIER account, if it’s not the case yet you can take your chance here.

b - then the story has to be prepublish on the website.

c - It should be at least 4 pages minimum, black and white (or grey), 18cm x 22 cm max, and posted before the 31st of December 2007.

d - This story will finally go through a jury of barely naked girls armed with chainsaws for approuval.

Our goal with GRANDPAPIER is to gather different comic artist we like under the same roof and also to give online readers access to what they might not found in their local bookstore.

GRANDPAPIER is a project by l’employé du Moi, a comics publisher based in Brussels, Belgium. We are not looking at webcomics as an ultimate goal for comics but rather as a way to use the Internet as a promotion tool for artworks we like. Building an online community that will help newer comic artist to get known. It’s also a great way for us to meet new people and eventually make new books.

This website is our third online experience after the employé du Moi online diaries and 40075km. Our online diaries gathered up to 15 people who published drawings and comics online at a daily rate. In the course of six years, some of theses diaries were printed in books, published under l’employé du Moi label. ( Rubiah from Sacha Goerg, Lointain from Claude Desmedt, Michel from Pierre Maurel, ...)

40075km.net was a web portal created in 2005 and open to anyone who wished to share comics pages on the topic of travelling. This project which lasted a good year ended with the publication of a 600 pages anthology.

GRANDPAPIER is a logical follow up of these 2 projects.

GRANDPAPIER is not a blog or a myspace, it’s not here to replace personal artists websites either, it’s just one of thoses places where you can find lots of good comics and drawings contents.