Monaco.
Monaco
1982
Monaco has a very small comics history.
Patrice Woolley, born in Monaco in 1962, drew Monaco à travers les siècles, a 1982 comics history of the principality with a preface by Prince Rainier III, and later the 3D comics album Ténèbres. From 2014 the Monaco company Shibuya Productions, founded by Cédric Biscay, tied the principality to manga through the MAGIC event, an international manga contest run with Shūeisha, and Blitz, presented as the first Monegasque manga.
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Artists from Monaco in the archive.
Comics from Monaco in the archive.
Monaco à travers les siècles, the earliest comic from Monaco in the archive.
The decade when the most new comics from Monaco began.
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Monaco in 2 chapters
A short history you can leaf through. Click a page, use the arrow keys, or press Turn the page to read on.
Monaco.
2 chapters
Chapter 1
1982
to 2014
Patrice Woolley
1982
to 2014
Chapter 01
Patrice Woolley
In 1982 Chaki Editions published Monaco à travers les siècles, Patrice Woolley's history of Monaco in comics, with a preface by Prince Rainier III. Woolley, a stage designer at the Monte-Carlo opera, went on to experiment with 3D comics in the album Ténèbres.
2014
to today
Chapter 02
Manga from the principality
Cédric Biscay set up Shibuya Productions in Monaco in 2014, and its MAGIC event at the Grimaldi Forum added an international manga contest with Shūeisha in 2017, judged by mangaka such as Nobuhiro Watsuki and Tite Kubo. In February 2020 its label Iwa began publishing Blitz, a chess manga written by Biscay and drawn by Daitaro Nishihara; the contest has been paused since 2023.
The comics to know
- Monaco à travers les siècles1982 · graphic novelPatrice Woolley. History of Monaco in comics, with a preface by Prince Rainier III.
- Ténèbresgraphic novelPatrice Woolley. 3D comics album, translated into four languages.
- Blitz2020 · comic book seriesCédric Biscay and Daitaro Nishihara. Chess manga supervised by Garry Kasparov, described as the first Monegasque manga.
The people to know
- Patrice WoolleyBorn 1962Monaco-born comics artist of Monaco à travers les siècles and Ténèbres.
- Cédric BiscayBorn 1979Founder of Shibuya Productions and MAGIC; writer of Blitz.
- Daitaro NishiharaArtist who draws Blitz, a collaboration between Monaco and Japan.