After making a few forays into the company (gag-strips scenarios and comic strips for the Smurfs) and approaching the established authors, Denys Mathey observed with alarm that it is no longer possible to create original comic strips:
The ultra-marketing of comic strips at present imposes ever more restrictive standardization of published works, and only considers the reader as a mass consumer incapable of appreciating the slightest subtlety…
What can be done if, in spite of everything, you want to venture off the beaten track? …well you’ll just have to beat a path through the uncharted territories where you wish to send your readers!
Hence the creation of “Bandes Gribouillées” (Doodled Strips), an auto-publishing “shack” founded in 2006, offering an original comic strips design which favors narration at the expense of esthetism, and contents itself with the minimum of graphics (expressions, composition, readability…) indispensable for an effective production of the story.
Have a go and you’ll see, it works just as well as a “real” comic strip!
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