Against Comics

by Jochen Gerner
Translated by Edward Gauvin

Against Comics
Against Comics
Against Comics
Against Comics
Against Comics
Against Comics


© 2008 Gerner & L’Association. Published by arrangement with L’Association. Translation © 2009 by Edward Gauvin. All rights reserved.


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Jochen GernerJochen Gerner

Jochen Gerner studied fine arts in Nancy from 1988 to 1993. After his studies, he began illustrating and published some pages in the collective album Périphéries (L'Association). His first comic was published by L'Association in the collection Patte de Mouche: Bo—te de Vitesse et Viande en Bo—te. His comics were also published in Les Inrockuptibles, Lapin, and Fusée. Since then he has published widely. In addition to comics, Gerner publishes illustrations in magazines and newspapers, including Libération, Le Monde, and the New York Times, and in children's books.

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Translated from FrenchFrench by Edward GauvinEdward Gauvin

The winner of the John Dryden Translation prize, Clarion alum Edward Gauvin has received fellowships and residencies from the NEA, the Fulbright program, the Centre National du Livre, and the Lannan Foundation. His volume of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s selected stories, A Life on Paper (Small Beer, 2010), won the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award and was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. Other publications have appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, and PEN America. The contributing editor for Francophone comics at Words Without Borders, he writes a bimonthly column on the Francophone fantastic at Weird Fiction Review and blogs on translation at Absinthe Minded.

 

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