Fremok
Fremok and Amok, the Belgian and French avant-garde, and artists including Dominique Goblet and Fabrice Neaud.
Part of Underground Comics
32 moments in this segment.
- - On stage at Stripdagen. Dominique Goblet in conversation at Haarlem in 2010, a year after her work began appearing in English.
- - Goblet interviewed at Haarlem. The Belgian author, whose Faire semblant c'est mentir took twelve years to complete, speaks with Jeroen Mirck at the Dutch comics days.
- - Angoulême 2011 - Interview de Dominique Goblet et Nikita Fossoul - Chronographie. Dominique Goblet and her daughter Nikita Fossoul discuss Chronographie, published by L'Association, a book built from roughly 270 sittings of mother and daughter drawing each other across about a decade. Stephane Beaujean conducts the interview at Angouleme.
- - Bristophe / Thierry Van Hasselt - Tableau 2 (Geneva version). Thierry Van Hasselt's moving painting Tableau 2 plays while the duo Bristophe, Brice Catherin and Christophe Schweizer, performs a live score on acoustic instruments made to sound electronic. Staged at the Electron Festival in Geneva in April 2011.
- - Exposition Fremok et Grand atelier S à la librairie Livre aux Trésors. A report from an exhibition at the Liege bookshop Livre aux Tresors showing original pages from La crane rouge by Nicole Claude and Double Bob and from Nos terres sombres by Paz Bairal and Remy Pierlot. Both books pair a Fremok artist with an artist from the Grand Atelier S.
- - Fremok au Festival Cultures Maison, édition 2011 (Bruxelles).. Thierry Van Hasselt speaks about Fremok's publishing at the Cultures Maison festival in Brussels, the 2011 edition. Fremok itself was formed in 2002 from the merger of Amok in France and Freon in Belgium.
- - Édition Frémok : interview "Regard sur la bande dessinée alternative".. An editor from Fremok answers questions about the house and its approach to alternative bande dessinee, filmed in French for the exhibition Regard sur la bande dessinee alternative en Belgique francophone at the Edgar P. Jacobs municipal library.
- - Marc Tessier et Stanley Wany - L'édition de la bande dessinée d'art au Québec. Marc Tessier and Stanley Wany discuss publishing art comics in Quebec, a small francophone market operating apart from both France and English Canada.
- - Conférence BD / Les Prix Rodolphe Töpffer de la Ville de Genève / 22.01.14. Dominique Goblet, Bastien Vives, Pierre Wazem and Benoit Peeters debate what comics prizes are actually for, around the Rodolphe Topffer awards in Geneva.
- - SPX 2014 Panel - The Roots of Frémok: Yvan Alagbé and Dominique Goblet. Yvan Alagbe and Dominique Goblet, foundational figures at the Belgian and French publisher Fremok, discuss their work at the Small Press Expo. Alagbe talks about the cultural conflict in books such as Ecole de la misere, and Goblet about blurring fiction and autobiography, including Plus si entente made with Kai Pfeiffer. Bill Kartalopoulos moderates.
- - Goblet at Writers Unlimited. The artist appears at the Hague literature festival in February 2015, on a programme mostly given to prose.
- - Dominique Goblet in De tekst van mijn leven. In Writers Unlimited Winternachten festival, 17-01-2015. Dominique Goblet reads a text that shaped her own work at the Winternachten festival in the Hague and explains what it still calls up for her.
- - Entretien avec Fabrice Neaud première partie. Fabrice Neaud published four volumes of his autobiographical Journal through ego comme x between 1996 and 2002, and describes founding the imprint and starting the diary.
- - Thierry van Hasselt - Drawing as Language. Thierry van Hasselt speaks about drawing treated as a language and about visual narration, part of an interview series recorded for the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Fumetto festival in Lucerne.
- - ICAF 2016 Artist Talk: Dominique Goblet (excerpt). Dominique Goblet explains how she works and what it takes to put childhood trauma into autobiographical comics, in an excerpt from a longer talk in South Carolina.
- - ICAF 2016 Dominique Goblet. Dominique Goblet presents her mixed-media work at the International Comic Arts Forum, including Chronographie, the book of fortnightly portraits she and her daughter drew of each other.
- - Sketching/Scripting Women: Dominique Goblet on her graphic novels. Belgian cartoonist Dominique Goblet speaks in English about her body of work, including the translation of Faire semblant c'est mentir, and about how women's presence in French-language bande dessinee grew from the mid 1990s.
- - Yvan Alagbé and Dominique Goblet in Conversation. Yvan Alagbe and Dominique Goblet appear together as New York Review Comics issues their first English editions, Yellow Negroes and Other Imaginary Creatures and Pretending is Lying.
- - PPF19 I brecht evens. Goele Dewanckel and cartoonist Dominique Goblet question Brecht Evens about his life and work, his dense watercolour pages, and the standing of the graphic novel as literature. Conducted in Dutch at a Brussels literature house.
- - 02 sur 31 / Journal de Fabrice Neaud-Thème : Les écritures du moi !. A short segment on Fabrice Neaud's Journal, presented as part of a series on autobiography in bande dessinee, discussing how Neaud turned daily record-keeping into comics. Metadata gives little beyond the subject and the theme.
- - La Bande dessinée en Belgique (1970). A 1970 French language report on Belgian comics, staging visits to several of the country's best known cartoonists at their drawing boards and showing them at work on pages.
- - L'Homme armée - Frédéric Coché - Fremok. Frederic Coche's L'Homme armee, published by Fremok, assembles antique ruins, medieval soldiers and science fiction into a montage that asks the reader to build the connections.
- - Bande dessinée : "L’Entaille" d'Antoine Maillard et "Tout est vrai" de Giacomo Nanni. Two graphic novels are reviewed: Antoine Maillard's L'Entaille on adolescence and violence, and Giacomo Nanni's Tout est vrai, following his Fauve de l'Audace at Angouleme in 2020.
- - Meet the publisher: Frémok. Thierry Vanhasselt founded Fremok in Brussels out of the earlier Freon and Amok imprints, and sets out what the house publishes and why it prints the way it does.
- - Vortrag | Dominique Goblet. Dominique Goblet lectures at the Fumetto festival in Lucerne on her drawing practice.
- - L'autre bande dessinée : une histoire des BD alternatives. Mael Rannou lectures on the history of alternative bande dessinee in France, tracing the small structures that grew up outside the franco-belge publishing houses.
- - Dominique Goblet. Untiefen (02.03.-26.05.2024). Dominique Goblet and curator Anette Gehrig discuss Abysses, the Cartoonmuseum Basel exhibition of her mixed-media comics work.
- - Autobiographie et narration - Interview Fabrice Neaud. Fabrice Neaud, author of the autobiographical series Journal and its sequel Le dernier sergent, speaks in French about what stories are for, whether autobiography has rules, holding a reader's attention, and how observation of real life feeds the page. Chapter markers track each question.
- - Three scholars at the KBR. Benoit Crucifix, Erwin Dejasse and Philippe Capart at the Royal Library of Belgium for the exhibition Petit et partout, on small-format publishing.
- - Dejasse at Petit et partout. The Liege researcher, who has written extensively on Fremok and the Belgian avant-garde, at the Royal Library exhibition.
- - L'œuvre référentielle - Fabrice Neaud et Denis Bajram - Une table ronde du SoBD. Fabrice Neaud explains the roughly twenty years his autobiographical work was out of print, the depression that stopped him drawing, and the terms on which he approached publishers after ego comme x closed.
- - Bruxelles : à la découverte de l'univers de la Bande Dessinée - Les Ambassadeurs. Comic characters painted on Brussels walls are toured around the Grand-Place, the city's mural route treated as public property.