"Les séries de notre enfance": It's Out!

I meant to acquaint you about this yesterday, but didn't get the time: The lavish, 208-page French book that goes abaft the scenes of the DiC studios - loaded with attenuate art, all-embracing online writing and never-before-seen interviews - was assuredly appear in France bygone and can be ordered anon from the website of the publishing company. (I'll let you apperceive if I appear beyond added web food to adjustment it from - so far, Amazon doesn't assume to accept it in stock. The book's writers accept been talking about hopefully accepting it appear to a advanced ambit of web stores, but conceivably this will yield off added during the next few weeks.) UPDATE (November 16): It's now aswell accessible from the French Amazon. 

As you ability accept noticed in the account cavalcade to the right, I've already affiliated to the publishers' pre-order website for the endure few weeks; but now that the book is acutely out, I anticipation a endure bung would be adapted (at atomic it will be the endure until I accept it myself). One affair I haven't mentioned appropriately afore - abreast from the delayed absolution date - is the change to the final awning (above) just a few weeks ago. I alone anticipate it's a all-inclusive advance over the aboriginal draft... it absolutely tells you abundant added acutely what the book is about. (The alone baby weakness I can anticipate of, perhaps, is that the cartoon of Penny has been addled from the aboriginal awning version... so that now, her anchorperson watch is in fact on the amiss wrist. But that's so nit-picky I'm not even gonna acknowledgment it. ;)

To bound epitomize what this book is all about: "Les sГ©ries de notre enfance: Ulysse 31, les citГ©s d'or, Inspecteur Gadget..." (directly translated: "The alternation of our childhood: Ulysses 31, The Cities of Gold, Inspector Gadget ...") is a fan activity accounting and aggregate by two acutely committed DiC admirers called Maroin Eluasti and Nordine Zemrak. They've spent the endure 5 years researching the history of the DiC animation studios: acquisition accomplishments information, interviewing as abounding as accessible of the association alive there, accession attenuate artwork like archetypal sheets, cels, development sketches and publicity art... all with the ambition of eventually publishing a book committed to DiC, and decidedly committed to its aureate age in the 1980s. (Note the focus of the title: It's apparently no accompaniment that the three cartoons mentioned by name are arguably DiC's best a lot of memorable ones.) A few months ago, Zemrak and Eluasti started a Ulule activity to accession money for the advertisement of their adulation letter to DiC, and succeeded with aerial colors in the alpha of September. Their fan-funded book has back been affective rapidly through assembly (accompanied by a amount of abundant Facebook teasers both afore and afterwards the fundraising was completed) until the absolution on November 14.

So here's what you get: For DiC admirers of all languages and nationalities, the book will abide of 65% (or more) images - attenuate assembly art, best cels and promotional actual accompanying to all of DiC's a lot of acclaimed shows. For those who accept French, there's aswell 35% text, consisting of abundant accomplishments advice and all-embracing interviews aswell accompanying to DiC's acclaimed series. Either way, the book care to accomplish a actual absorbing acquaintance for any fan of 80s animation shows. I still accept a achievement there ability be an English-language archetype someday... but as I said earlier, that will a lot of acceptable be absolutely abased on the success of this French edition. So if you're a fan, and if you like this initiative, it ability be a acceptable abstraction to buy a archetype now rather than delay for a accessible English archetype far into the future. Buying the French-language adaptation will apparently access the affairs of accepting an English-language version. 

Anyway, I'm acquisitive for the best of luck and the best of sales for this book. And a lot of of all, I'm acquisitive it lives up to expectations! It should ability my mailbox (or adjacent column office) any day now...