Description
With his Award winning work, Vietnamese Memories, Clement Baloup chronicles - through vivid painted art and poetic storytelling - the fate of a handful of people who, like many of their peers, were condemned to leave a country successively occupied by the Japanese, the French and the Americans. After Leaving Saigon, Baloup explores a new story linked to his own, this time from a woman's perspective and focusing on those who lef for the U.S.A. over thirty years ago.
About the Author
Clement Baloup entered Angouleme's prestigious Beaux-Arts Program in 1997 and spent the next five years enriching both his perception and practice of sequential storytelling. In 2004 he published his first comic book, Autumn in Hanoi, a mix of travel log and short stories. Clement has gone on to become a versatile creator: besides his more personal graphic novels (the Vietnamese Memories trilogy) which he both wrote and illustrated, he has written stories in a variety of genres, illustrated by other artists such as Chinh Tri (Le Seuil), La Concubine Rouge (Gallimard), both with Mathieu Jiro, Suicide Club (Soleil) with Eddy Vaccaro, or Le ventre de la Hyene (Lombard) with Chris Alliel, to name a few. His work has been translated into English, Spanish, Italian, German and can be regularly found in magazines as XXI (France) or Internazionale (Italy). Additionally, his works as a fine artist have entered several private and public collections around the world (Marseille, Paris, Bruxelles, Dubai and London). Clement was awarded numerous prizes for his series Vietnamese Memories, including the Jury's Choice Prize at the 2011 Angouleme International Comics Festival and the Doctors Without Borders Prize in Clermont-Ferrand.
Reviews
"Vibrant. . . . these stories give human faces to the effects of colonialism and war in the Vietnamese diaspora." - Publishers Weekly ""Baloup is a master of making scenery come alive and placing his subjects within them..."" - COMICS BEAT ""A good addition to the growing canon of forgotten voices finally speaking out."" - NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS
Book Information
ISBN 9781594657993
Author Clement Baloup
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Humanoids, Inc
Publisher Humanoids, Inc
About the Author
Clement Baloup entered Angouleme's prestigious Beaux-Arts Program in 1997 and spent the next five years enriching both his perception and practice of sequential storytelling. In 2004 he published his first comic book, Autumn in Hanoi, a mix of travel log and short stories. Clement has gone on to become a versatile creator: besides his more personal graphic novels (the Vietnamese Memories trilogy) which he both wrote and illustrated, he has written stories in a variety of genres, illustrated by other artists such as Chinh Tri (Le Seuil), La Concubine Rouge (Gallimard), both with Mathieu Jiro, Suicide Club (Soleil) with Eddy Vaccaro, or Le ventre de la Hyene (Lombard) with Chris Alliel, to name a few. His work has been translated into English, Spanish, Italian, German and can be regularly found in magazines as XXI (France) or Internazionale (Italy). Additionally, his works as a fine artist have entered several private and public collections around the world (Marseille, Paris, Bruxelles, Dubai and London). Clement was awarded numerous prizes for his series Vietnamese Memories, including the Jury's Choice Prize at the 2011 Angouleme International Comics Festival and the Doctors Without Borders Prize in Clermont-Ferrand.
Reviews
"Vibrant. . . . these stories give human faces to the effects of colonialism and war in the Vietnamese diaspora." - Publishers Weekly ""Baloup is a master of making scenery come alive and placing his subjects within them..."" - COMICS BEAT ""A good addition to the growing canon of forgotten voices finally speaking out."" - NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS
Book Information
ISBN 9781594657993
Author Clement Baloup
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Humanoids, Inc
Publisher Humanoids, Inc
