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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Paranoia in black and white. In 1990 a group of comic artists, including David B and Killoffer, founded the Parisian comic collective, L’Association. Their idea was to take on the traditional comic album, as typified by Tin Tin, and cause a revolution. Since then L’Association has published books such as Persepolis and Epileptic. Now us Asterix-fed Brits can enjoy more grown-up European fare as UK publisher Typocrat has started to translate some critically acclaimed titles.Six Hundred And Seventy-Six Apparitions Of Killoffer tells the tale of the artist’s trip to Montreal. Having left his kitchen back home festering, Killoffer stresses about what he’s growing in his sink, whether he’s discovered the recipe for life; something’s rotting in his mind. Meanwhile, his preoccupations become a whirlwind of worry and he realises guiltily that he can’t keep his eyes off the scantily clad Canadian girls. As his paranoia develops, so do Killoffer’s apparitions. He wakes to find three of himself coming in with women he’s been ogling. Gradually the new Killoffers start to run riot, multiplying, brawling in bars, covering his apartment with crap. And as much as our original hero tries to escape his evil selves, raping and fighting their way through his life, there’s nothing for it but drastic action. And a little poison. Beautifully penned in black-and-white graphic style, Killoffer’s increasingly deranged nightmare of tangled limbs and dark fantasies takes a sideways look at the comic traditions of autobiography, and a comically egocentric pop at himself wherever possible. Six Hundred And Seventy-Six Apparitions Of Killoffer by Killoffer, out now published by Typocrat Press.
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comment by rowan
Sep 18, 2006
Just noticed this... most oddhttp://www.typocrat.com/Buy/buytoys.html...
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