Régis Loisel
Author of La Quête de l'oiseau du temps, tome 1 : La Conque de Ramor
About the Author
Series
Works by Régis Loisel
La Quête de l'oiseau du temps, tome 1 : La Conque de Ramor (1983) — Illustrator — 200 copies, 5 reviews
La Quête de l'oiseau du temps, tome 2 : Le Temple de l'oubli (1984) — Illustrator — 171 copies, 1 review
La quête de l'oiseau du temps, Avant la quête, tome 2 : Le grimoire des dieux (2007) — Illustrator — 78 copies, 1 review
Reddition 48 2 copies
Magasin général, Intégrale 1 : Coffret en 3 volumes : Tome 1, Marie ; Tome 2, Serge ; Tome 3, Les hommes. Avec une… (2015) 1 copy
Associated Works
Les Quatre de Baker Street, Tome 1 : L'affaire du rideau bleu (2009) — Preface, some editions — 47 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1951-12-04
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
- Occupations
- comic artist
comic writer
publisher - Awards and honors
- Grand Prix du festival d'Angoulême (2002)
Lucien Award (1986)
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Reviews
Magasin General: Marie (Magasin Général 1) by Régis Loisel
In this graphic novel, we follow a gruff heroic knight forced out of retirement and a beautiful warrior maiden with a temper as they search for the magical ingredients the maiden's sorceress-princess mother requires to stop the return of a despotic imprisoned god.
With an interesting tonal mix between the typical epic fantasy stakes, typical low fantasy character flaws and splashes of irreverent blue comedy, the story is rather engaging, even as it to some extent goes through the motions of the typical genre Quest. This is, however, greatly alleviated by the ending, which feels both surprising and inevitable at the same time.
What really sells one on this story, though, is of course the gorgeous artwork, which really gets a chance to shine in the huge page format this book has.
However, the English translation is unfortunately rather erratic, sometimes making it hard to know exactly what a character is referring to with a given statement, and I often had to pan back and forth between several panels to make proper sense of what was being said. If you can read it in the original French, I therefore suspect you'll get a much better experience.
But even with the translation's issues, I really enjoyed this, and would not hesitate to recommend it to any fans of epic fantasy who are looking for something pretty to read that is both tried and true, but also ever so slightly different.… (more)
With an interesting tonal mix between the typical epic fantasy stakes, typical low fantasy character flaws and splashes of irreverent blue comedy, the story is rather engaging, even as it to some extent goes through the motions of the typical genre Quest. This is, however, greatly alleviated by the ending, which feels both surprising and inevitable at the same time.
What really sells one on this story, though, is of course the gorgeous artwork, which really gets a chance to shine in the huge page format this book has.
However, the English translation is unfortunately rather erratic, sometimes making it hard to know exactly what a character is referring to with a given statement, and I often had to pan back and forth between several panels to make proper sense of what was being said. If you can read it in the original French, I therefore suspect you'll get a much better experience.
But even with the translation's issues, I really enjoyed this, and would not hesitate to recommend it to any fans of epic fantasy who are looking for something pretty to read that is both tried and true, but also ever so slightly different.… (more)
Pyrénée dates from 1981 and was reprinted in Dutch and French in the second part of the 90s.
A bear escapes from the circus during a conflagration that destroys most of the surrounding village. He finds a girl next to the body of her dead mother in a ruin outside the village and carries her with him into the Pyrenees. What follows is a sweet story of a young girl in search of humanity by Loisel. Sternis' romantic drawing fits very well with the innocence of the main character. Alas, there never was a second album.… (more)
A bear escapes from the circus during a conflagration that destroys most of the surrounding village. He finds a girl next to the body of her dead mother in a ruin outside the village and carries her with him into the Pyrenees. What follows is a sweet story of a young girl in search of humanity by Loisel. Sternis' romantic drawing fits very well with the innocence of the main character. Alas, there never was a second album.… (more)
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