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Nicolas Labarre

@labarren.cpesr.fr

Vice-president for research at University Bordeaux Montaigne. Comics scholar, writer, player of games, teaching American culture. My latest book: Moebius (UP Mississippi in 2025) https://cv.hal.science/nicolas-labarre

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Derf Backderf@derfbackderf.bsky.social · yesterday

I’m ready to weigh in on the CHARITY & SYLVIA controversy. I’ve read both books and compared & contrasted them, and their sources. Is Tillie Walden’s book a rip off of Rachel Hope Cleves’ book, as the professor claims? No. It is not. #TillieWalden #graphicnovels buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

Charity and Sylvia: the extraordinary claims of Rachel Hope Cleves

In early July, a dispute began between two writers; Rachel Hope Cleves, author of Charity and Sylvia; A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, (2014), and...

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Nicolas Labarre@labarren.cpesr.fr · 2w ago

En visite à l'exposition Warhol à Landerneau, je découvre que ses illustrations de jeunesse pourraient être du Tomi Ungerer. Les dates - 1959 pour les deux images - suggèrent une coïncidence.

Deux œuvres de jeunesse de Warhol
Eike Exner@eikeexner.com · 3w ago

Not only did this book win the award but the University of California Press, (formerly?) a renowned publisher when it comes to academic books related to Japan, continues to promote it despite being aware of the problems with it, which is not a great sign for the field or academia more broadly.

Eike Exner@eikeexner.com · 3mo ago

A book on manga history that was so full of errors and false claims that I felt like I had to write a blog post about it to warn people got nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Academic Work. Truly post-truth society 🤷‍♂️ eikeexner.com/2025/11/26/n...

European Greens@europeangreens.eu · 3w ago

A total of 254,388 hectares have been burnt in Europe (in particular in Spain, France and Italy) so far this year, which is roughly the size of Luxembourg. We applaud the courage of the rescue teams on the ground. We need to do more. We need climate action now.

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Cédric Brun@cedricbrun.bsky.social · 3w ago

Il va falloir qu’on ait une conversation politique autour des questions environnementales et sur les politiques au pouvoir ces 10 dernières années rendent quelques comptes.

Nicolas Labarre@labarren.cpesr.fr · 3w ago

So, Hyper Light Drifter was really fine. Not astounding, but well worth the 7 hours I spent beating it. Among other things, I like the idea that (these) video game conventions are so entrenched that the game can pretend to be mysterious yet absolutely clear in various places (shops, coins, etc.)

Stunning pixel art from the first playable screen in Hyper Light Drifter
Les éditions Askabak@askabak.eurosky.social · 4w ago

Rappel que si vous chroniquez de l'horreur et souhaitez découvrir L'Atelier écarlate, deux nouvelles vous attendent dans notre SP numérique. Envoyez nous un simple mail à editionsaskabak @ gmail et vous aurez de l'horreur à domicile. Le partage emmerde Bolloré.

Couverture du SP numérique de L'Atelier écarlate de Guillaume Baychelier aux éditions Askabak.
Les éditions Askabak@askabak.eurosky.social · 4w ago

En novembre donc, nous publions encore une création française : le premier recueil de nouvelles de @gbaychelier.bsky.social, L'Atelier écarlate. 8 nouvelles parlant d'art, de chair, du corps, d'animaux et, bien sûr, d'horreur.

Nicolas Labarre@labarren.cpesr.fr · 4w ago

Relevant Playboy Cartoon from October 1976. “Just thought we’d drop by and mention that, as we’re not carrying on any illegal wars at the moment, you might like to start paying your taxes again.”

A startled family opens the door to two federal employees : "“Just thought we’d drop by and mention that, as we’re not carrying on any illegal wars at the moment, you might like to start paying your taxes again.”
Nicolas Labarre@labarren.cpesr.fr · 4w ago

Herbert Marcuse et la CIA. Très bon article du Monde sur un dossier qui rappelle la complexité des liens entre circulation des idées et géopolitique durant la guerre froide, durant laquelle les alliances de circonstances étaient nombreuses. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Le philosophe Herbert Marcuse a-t-il aidé la CIA ? Aux Etats-Unis, la gauche intellectuelle marxiste se déchire

Un livre relance la polémique sur les liens de l’icône de Mai 68 avec le renseignement américain. Si le philosophe révolutionnaire a bien travaillé pour le gouvernement des Etats-Unis pendant la guerr...

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Nicolas Labarre@labarren.cpesr.fr · 4w ago

J'ai fini Nocturnal, qui avait été donné à l'occasion de la sortie du 2, et c'était très bien. Une expérience de plateforme action avec des éléments de puzzle autour d'un mécanisme fort - l'usage du feu - et d'une belle direction artistique. store.steampowered.com/app/1634080/...

Save 85% on Nocturnal on Steam

Carve your way with fire and steel to find out what secrets lie beyond the Mist in this intense 2-hour-long action-platformer game. Get ready to wield the flames and burn everything!

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Nicolas Labarre@labarren.cpesr.fr · last mo.

But I'm having a hard time finding archives for the weekly Screw. Some of the late 1960s issues are on the internet archives. For 1976, though, I'm merely looking at the wonderful covers on ebay. Does anyone know if they are in an archive, physical or digital? Worldcat does not list them. 3/3

Cover for Screw #371 (1976), a drawn woman removes her dress, to reveal a monstrous torso. The signature reads "Yenne". Intriguingly, the cover advertises an article about "computers that make porn", 50 years before Grok.
Nicolas Labarre@labarren.cpesr.fr · last mo.

But I'm having a hard time finding archives for the weekly Screw. Some of the late 1960s issues are on the internet archives. For 1976, though, I'm merely looking at the wonderful covers on ebay. Does anyone know if they are in an archive, physical or digital? Worldcat does not list them. 3/3

Cover for Screw #371 (1976), a drawn woman removes her dress, to reveal a monstrous torso. The signature reads "Yenne". Intriguingly, the cover advertises an article about "computers that make porn", 50 years before Grok.
Nicolas Labarre@labarren.cpesr.fr · last mo.

Some of the magazines - esp. the big ones (Playboy, Penthouse, Hustler) - are easy to find. Others, most of them, have nothing to say about politics and national identity. You would not read them for the articles. 2/3

Nicolas Labarre@labarren.cpesr.fr · last mo.

I'm working on a paper about the representation of the 1976 US bicentennial in men's magazines (spurred in part by the resonance of Carter's interview in Playboy). This is of course a study in the changing relationship between masculinity, bodies and national identity. 1/3

Barry Deutsch@barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The point is, people are talking as if Walden did nothing but go through Cleves' book page by page and converted the pages to comics. As it happens, that's what *I* do, as part of the team adapting the Wings of Fire novels to graphic novels. What Walden did isn't even remotely like what I do.