In animated films, ways of representing space are unlimited. Everything is possible in an animated cartoon. From the beginning of the 20th century, animated movie makers have been inventing new ways of representing space (e.g. The flying house by Winsor McCay, 1921). Le dessin animé est un domaine dans lequel les formes de représentation de…
Le photographe is a graphic novel (3 albums) created by Emmanuel Guibert (script, design and colors), Frédéric Lemercier (colors and layout) and Didier Lefevre (scenario and photographs). It retraces the journey of a Médecin sans frontières team (MSF is an independent humanitarian medical aid organisation). The story takes place between Pakistan and Afghanistan in 1986…
On the cover of « Le meilleur du Chat » album, Philippe Geluck makes a joke by inventing an interaction between the map and the user. Such an interaction was impossible at the release of the album (1994 for this Best Of and years before for the original). As new technologies (GPS, GSM, IP geolocation…) allow now…
The adventures of Nestor Burma, the private detective created by the French writer Leo Malet, have been brilliantly adapted as a comic book, first by Jacques Tardi (4 albums) and then by Emmanuel Moynot (3 albums). Each investigation takes place in a different Paris arrondissement, which is mapped at the beginning of the album. Nestor…
A systematic inventory of maps in The Adventures of Tintin has still to be be done, but, surprising though it might seem, the reporter and globetrotter does not use maps very often. Take just one example : the Red Rackham’s Treasure album, that Steven Spielberg is adapting for the cinema. No map is shown in…
There is one map in the Watchmen movie (see also Wikipedia). It appears in the War Room scenes behind President Nixon when the Army staff presents a simulation of the consequences of a Russian response to a US strike. This is an animated world map, first displayed at a medium scale, followed by a zoom…
On revient sur la fameuse et habiel carte qui ouvre chaque album d’Astérix, de Uderzo et Gosciny /\ Let give a look at the very famous and clever map that opens every Asterix’s album.
