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Reynolds has a mythology of his own with his own codes
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Éste era el lugar Manu González
This was the place
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I propose the word Mauretania
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New Spanish edition of stories from The New World - Este era el lugar - This was the place - from Libros Walden - OUT NOW!
This Spanish edition contains a slightly different selection of stories from the US/Italian and French editions.
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MAURETANIA Une traversée
Published with the support of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region.
This collection of Chris Reynolds' stories from Mauretania Comics has been in development for many years and its origin predates the New York Review Comics "New World" edition. The project has been overseen by editor Jérôme Le Glatin. Book design is by Lyon's leading band-poster artist Félicité Landrivon.
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How is it possible that it was necessary to wait more than 30 years (!) To discover the universe of the British Chris Reynolds in French?
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What could have been only a few drawings without a future in a single photocopied fanzine has grown to become, over thirty years of creation, a complete universe.
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Stumbling across an unknown continent subject to its own rules !
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An unclassifiable and inexplicable universe, vaguely disturbing and comforting at the same time.
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Mauretania vs Ennio Morricone!
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MAURETANIA
on TV
Chris
Reynolds’ “Mauretania” sets course for TV---
...mysterious figures appearing in childhood photos, family members disappearing without warning and people gaining the power of flight...
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This work will divide, it is certain, and will give rise to strong opinions...
Cette œuvre divisera, c’est certains, et donnera lieu à des avis tranchés...
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Top international Geometricist Doctor Scalene sneaks out of prison. There are some things he has to do. But he is scared...
From Chris Reynolds, visionary author of The New World, Torus, and The Cinema Detectives comes a new mystery, full of enigmatic strangers and shadowy goings on. Walk the uneasy streets with him.
A Pocket Chiller sees new nightmares and strange visions from a world next to yours. Who can say what will be next?
From the world of the PROWL CAR comes - A Scent of Terror !
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berria - Amets Herriko kronikak - Chronicles of the Dream Country
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13 MILLONES DE NAVES REVISTA DE CÓMICS - 13 MILLION SHIPS COMICS MAGAZINE
Este era el lugar. Historias misteriosas sobre tiempos y lugares - This was the place. Mysterious stories about times and places
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3 cómics ideales para regalar en San Valentín - 3 ideal comics to give on Valentine's Day
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Este era el lugar - This was the place - a review from INSIDE the book itself - with stunning animations
(more here: 22 Journeys Into The Unexplained)
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"Sometimes ... the teacher does not even know that he is a teacher..."
Mauretania Comics are published for the first time in Spanish - El País
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"A little stirring in the waters of reality" - Efe Eme, Diario de actualidad musical
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Le Monde: Comics - our 23 favorites for 2020. Le Monde: Bandes dessinées - nos 23 coups de cœur de l’année 2020
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The Mysteries of Mauretania
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Angoulême Press Junket - Mauretania
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Susan's journey has begun!
MAURETANIA Une traversée exhibit, Gare de Lyon, Paris S.N.C.F.
Festival d'Angoulême. Photo © David Paquin
TV5MONDE
Paris Gare de Lyon exhibition
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Monaco Weekly "We finally let ourselves go to the pleasure generated by the different emotions to which Chris Reynolds submits us ..."
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The thin air: he dreamed of another world Nova (French podcast!)
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Chris Reynolds invented the normality of the bizarre ... the bizarre becomes reassuring...
Le Monde - review
AND ... Ed Pinsent at the SOUND PROJECTOR!The original, mysterious and bewitching universe of Chris Reynolds - MAURETANIA Une traversée
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A story that addresses the unknown depths of the human soul!
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Palmarès, Napoli nominations
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Comics from the Future!
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Codeword: Crime, The Unexpected, Non-Existent
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This Was Exactly What I Was Looking For !
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Chris Reynolds discusses the retro-futuristic aesthetic of his Mauretania Comics
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photo (c): Smoke and Mirrors
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The White Space - (Interview about what next from the world of Mauretania Comics!)
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Il Tascabile - (In- depth review of Un Mondo Nuovo (The New World) in Italian - translation available!)
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Slings and Arrows "Reynolds essentially created his own genre"
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Four Colour Apocalypse "Chris Reynolds Maps the Geography of your Dreams"
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Boston Globe "The Best Books of 2018"
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photo (c) NYRC
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The Herald "Our choice of the best graphic novels of the year - "The most potent, mysterious book on this list by a country mile..."
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KCRW "Organist" Podcast "On this episode of the Organist, the artist speaks with the novelist and critic Ed Park"
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TLS - The Times Literary Supplement "Sometimes, he's a middle-ranking stooge or working stiff; sometimes on the trail of a missing person; sometimes a friend of the family..."
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nerdmovieproductions (in Italian but with translation option)
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The Cinema Detectives door, Bar42, Worthing
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The Fanzine "...the intoxicating sense of melancholy that powers these stories"
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Herald Scotland "It’s because they are about the impossible desire to hold onto what life takes away from us..."
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New Statesman "As a species, we adapt quickly to whatever situation we find ourselves in..."
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Speech Bubble with Aaron Broverman "features some of the greatest touchstones from that world, including The Monitor, Cinema Detectives and Rational Control"
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Comics For Grownups #93 Podcast - discusses The New World at: 22.28/50:22 " ... a nostalgic world - a world gone by ... "
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Empirix: Telegram from Mauretania "I liked The New World well when I read it this fall, but it was only after reading many of the same stories again some time later that I really realized Reynolds' greatness"
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Joe Higgins Monotypes "Bestiest"
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Tor "The Best Books of 2018 - So Far!"
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TheSmartSet "...if so, perhaps you were actually visiting Mauretania..."
Trevisocomics 2016
The Virtual Memories Show "anything that was already in the world when you were born was okay"
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Bookmunch "Blew Our Socks Off!"
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Bookidote "I love that you have to work a little to enjoy this"
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The Monitorini Cocktail by Emily Fry (A Graphic Novel Cocktail!)
1 Glass
25ml - Cointreau
25ml - Vodka
Orange
Cranberry
Grenadine
Soda
“A subtle refreshing cocktail with a gentle fruity aftertaste.”
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Observer "Only then the ground shifts"
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Starburst "The New World is wonderful"
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Goodreads "a place of cool afternoon shadows"
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Trevisocomics 2016
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Quill and Quire "each piece can stand alone"
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ComicsBeat "It explains that and more"
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Paris Review "the Greek for “dark” (or “obscure”)"
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L’età d’oro
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Page45 "It certainly has a dreamlike quality"
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Hipinion "...this is THE reissue of the year..."
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Glasgow Herald "trying to get a 3d effect"
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photo (c) NYRC
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Broken Frontier "slip out of sight beneath the oily swell of time"
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Comics Alternative "strangely some of the most compelling comics"
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Copaceticomics "a primary source of the rich but obscure"
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The New World launch party. photo (c): Smoke and Mirrors
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Publishers Weekly "Ed Park frames the “aesthetic ecstasy"
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New York Times "The New World: Comics From Mauretania."
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ComicBuzz " strangely moving"
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The Guardian " part Edward Hopper, part Andrei Tarkovsky, transposed to post-industrial Wales"
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Goodreads " one title that greatly intrigued me was MAURETANIA COMICS "
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Raintaxi "...since all the Mauretania stories exist in the same realm, ideas from one vignette can be layered onto another... "
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The New World at ComicBuzz
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Ryan Carey's Top 20!
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Lars Ingebrigtsen's Best Comics of 2019
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TORUS also on Comixology
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