Joann Sfar (French pronunciation: [ʒoan sfaʁ]; born 28 August 1971) is a French comics artist, comic book creator, novelist, and film director.
Life and career
Sfar was born in Nice, the son of Lilou, a pop singer, who died when he was three, and André Sfar, a lawyer well known for prosecuting Neo-Nazis. As a result of his mother's early death, Sfar was raised by his father and maternal grandfather, a military doctor of Ukrainian origin in the Alsace-Lorraine Independent Brigade (France) during World War II. Sfar's grandfather reportedly saved the right hand of the brigade's leader, novelist André Malraux, for which he was awarded French citizenship.
A wildly prolific artist, he is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics, though he has rejected the assertion that he, along with artists like Christophe Blain, Marjane Satrapi, and Lewis Trondheim, sought to create an alternative scene or a new movement in comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded in 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu and six other artists. He also worked together with many of the group's main artists, e.g. David B. and Lewis Trondheim. The Donjon series which he created with Trondheim has a cult following in many countries.
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Joann Sfar
ALBUMS
- Gainsbourg (vie héroïque) released: 2010
Gainsbourg (vie héroïque)
Released 2010- Taxi 69
- Nazi Rock
- Je bois versus Intoxicated Man
- La Javanaise (Chez Gréco)
- Élaeudanla Téitéia
- Je t'aime, moi non plus
- Chez Dali
- Parce que (Pour Élisabeth)
- Qui est "in", qui est "out"
- Baby Pop
- Le Poinçonneur des Lilas (version Frères Jacques)
- Le canari est sur le balcon
- L'Hôtel particulier
- Le Salon de coiffure
- Initials BB
- Bonnie and Clyde
- Comic Strip
- Gainsbourg cherche "Je t'aime, moi non plus"
- Aux armes et caetera
- Love on the Beat
- La Valse de Von Paulus
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by Mick Harvey
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by Gainsbourg Serge
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by Serge Gainsbourg
Initials Bb
by: Mick Harveyone night as I was just moping around
in some English pub, in the heart of London town
leafing through Monstrous Love by Pauwels
a vision hovered above the whiskey soda bottles
initials, the initials, the initials B.B.
initials, the initials, the initials B.B.
while the decorations of her conquerors
(?) to her gyrations, bronze and golden ores
the platinum engraved, cold circles that linger
those marks of a slave upon each finger
initials, the initials, the initials B.B.
initials, the initials, the initials B.B.
almost to her hips, she is booted
brimming, like a chalice, with her beauty
she wears nothing at all but her perfumed hair
essence de Guerlain in her long hair
initials, the initials, the initials B.B.
initials, the initials, the initials B.B.
with each little quiver one could detect
little bells of silver around her neck
ringing could be heard as she came near
and spoke the word Almeria
initials, the initials, the initials B.B.
initials, the initials, the initials B.B.
initials, the initials, the initials B.B.
initials, the initials, the initials B.B.
initials, the initials, the initials B.B.