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Les dingues de ski et de lapins et même les autres apprécieront cet album qui a obtenu l'Alph-Art Coup de coeur à Angoulême en 1994.
46 pages, Paperback
First published January 30, 1997
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Lewis Trondheim
526 books241 followersThe phenomenal Lewis Trondheim is never where you next expect him. As an artist and writer, Trondheim has earned an international following as one of the most inventive, versatile, and prolific graphic authors. From autobiography to adventure, from bestselling fantasy and children's books to visual essays, Trondheim's unique, seminal imagination consistently dazzles. His work has won numerous awards, including the Angoulême prize for best series with McConey and he also co-created the titanic fantasy epic Dungeon with Joann Sfar.
He is one of the founding members of the alternative publishing house L'Association, a proving ground for many of the greatest talents in European comics working today. He is also the editorial director of a new imprint called Shampooing, dedicated to comics for all ages.
Lewis lives in the South of France with his wife, Brigitte Findakly, and two children.
He is one of the founding members of the alternative publishing house L'Association, a proving ground for many of the greatest talents in European comics working today. He is also the editorial director of a new imprint called Shampooing, dedicated to comics for all ages.
Lewis lives in the South of France with his wife, Brigitte Findakly, and two children.
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February 18, 2018
Clicking around on Amazon not long ago, I noticed that a publisher called Europe Comics was pumping out a bunch of translations of Franco-Belgian comics, mostly only roughly adjacent to my real interests in the underground, arts-first, and clear-line classicist cartooning of the 70s and 80s. So I looked up the publisher, which turns out to be a consortium of major European comics publishers working together to break the English-language market if only by sheer volume. (The same trick worked for Japanese manga publishers twenty years ago; I'm hopeful but will not hold my breath that this works.) But what I was shocked to discover was that the first Lapinot volume had been translated and was available as an ebook; the second volume is... well, I just looked, and it's out now on Comixology.
Here's the paragraph where I would talk about how much Lapinot has meant to me over the years, except I did that only a few months ago when I wrote my review of Trondheim's 2017 revival of the character, so I'll just note that "Slaloms" wasn't Trondheim's first run at the character -- he made a 500-page wholly-improvised graphic novel in the late 80s to teach himself how to draw comics -- but it was the first to be published, in a black-and-white edition for Trondheim's own independent publisher. When Dargaud started publishing his glossy color stories featuring Lapinot, Trondheim redrew and his partner colored "Slaloms" as #0 in the series.
Plotwise, it's essentially a sitcom episode: a shaggy-dog story of friends getting together for a vacation at an Alpine ski resort where one of them rents a cabin and there's a media frenzy around the possibility of wolf attacks. The interplay between personalities, the beautifully loose cartooning, and Trondheim's pitch-perfect dialogue and timing are the pleasures of the comic. Trondheim's creative restlessness would push the comic in many different directions over the next decade, but the baseline low-key, even slackerly, charm of "Slaloms" would stay with it forever.
The translation is good, if a touch perfunctory (Kim Thompson's facility for coming up with unlikely slang that brings out the freewheeling spirit of the original is missed), but I'm mostly just shocked that it's in English at all. It's been twenty years. Where did the time go?
Here's the paragraph where I would talk about how much Lapinot has meant to me over the years, except I did that only a few months ago when I wrote my review of Trondheim's 2017 revival of the character, so I'll just note that "Slaloms" wasn't Trondheim's first run at the character -- he made a 500-page wholly-improvised graphic novel in the late 80s to teach himself how to draw comics -- but it was the first to be published, in a black-and-white edition for Trondheim's own independent publisher. When Dargaud started publishing his glossy color stories featuring Lapinot, Trondheim redrew and his partner colored "Slaloms" as #0 in the series.
Plotwise, it's essentially a sitcom episode: a shaggy-dog story of friends getting together for a vacation at an Alpine ski resort where one of them rents a cabin and there's a media frenzy around the possibility of wolf attacks. The interplay between personalities, the beautifully loose cartooning, and Trondheim's pitch-perfect dialogue and timing are the pleasures of the comic. Trondheim's creative restlessness would push the comic in many different directions over the next decade, but the baseline low-key, even slackerly, charm of "Slaloms" would stay with it forever.
The translation is good, if a touch perfunctory (Kim Thompson's facility for coming up with unlikely slang that brings out the freewheeling spirit of the original is missed), but I'm mostly just shocked that it's in English at all. It's been twenty years. Where did the time go?
October 6, 2020
Exactly the kind of nonsense I needed to read at this point in time (though there's a song about Ebola on the first page so it's not completely pandemic-free). Lots of non sequiturs and no resolution of the plot but I enjoyed its anarchic spirit.
I read this in a German translation, so the digging in the dictionary added an intellectual layer. It was a bit of a mindfuck to have the characters suddenly be Germans instead of Frenchmen but it worked rather well, especially in the setting of a ski resort. Respect to the translator, who recreated the exact sort of spoken language that is such a hallmark of the original.
I read this in a German translation, so the digging in the dictionary added an intellectual layer. It was a bit of a mindfuck to have the characters suddenly be Germans instead of Frenchmen but it worked rather well, especially in the setting of a ski resort. Respect to the translator, who recreated the exact sort of spoken language that is such a hallmark of the original.
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January 3, 2019Paras näistä jäniskirjoista. Hupaisa.
June 6, 2023
(Review for full series of Les Formidables Aventures de Lapinot)
I have returned to these comics so many times, and every single I am utterly delighted. There is no special magic here, no high concept or amazing art. And yet, everything is utterly magical. Hanging out with friends, weathering through the absurdities of everyday living. The platonic ideal of a good life, embodied by these funny looking animals.
I have returned to these comics so many times, and every single I am utterly delighted. There is no special magic here, no high concept or amazing art. And yet, everything is utterly magical. Hanging out with friends, weathering through the absurdities of everyday living. The platonic ideal of a good life, embodied by these funny looking animals.
November 4, 2015
Za sve one koji su ikada bili na skijanju u Francuskoj, ovaj strip je pravi biser i podsećanje na te dane. Ocena 5+
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July 3, 2022In don’t think I can properly rate this volume as I was either missing something important or it just isn’t for me, but let me just state that if one was looking to get into this excellent Trondheim series, this is the one to skip as it is not at all representative of later volumes.
Check out volume 2, “Blacktown” to figure out if you want to stick with this series, which I very much encourage everyone to do.
Check out volume 2, “Blacktown” to figure out if you want to stick with this series, which I very much encourage everyone to do.
January 16, 2021
L.T.'s Zeichenstil ist nicht so meine Sache, aber - Mensch! - kann Herr Trondheim Charaktere! Ein Album wie ein Film über eine Clique Mitte 20 im Winterurlaub. Sehr, sehr gut. (Vielleicht was für alle, denen Apres Ski und Co fehlen.)
June 17, 2021
Scopro trattarsi del quasi esordio di Trondheim. Un episodio svagato di amici in vacanza sulla neve, solo tangenzialmente animato dalla misteriosa e non confermata presenza di un lupo sulle piste da sci. Una storia d'atmosfera in cui i dialoghi sono tutto.
November 11, 2025
Lewis Trondheim muss ein Skifahrer sein. Sonst hätte er die Stimmung nicht so genau einfangen können. Und auch der Übersetzer kennt sich aus. Wunderbar.
Das treffendste Detail sind die Tellerlifte, die in Frankreich wahre Eierquetscher sind.
Das treffendste Detail sind die Tellerlifte, die in Frankreich wahre Eierquetscher sind.
January 9, 2020
bd sympa, sans plus pour le moment ... on va continuer la série quand même ..
December 4, 2023
FormNorm ¦ A.I. 01/1997 ¦ D.L. 02/1997 ¦ 4+1 tomes backside
->First color reprint + "0" on spine
->First color reprint + "0" on spine
February 4, 2024
Que dire… Si vous aimez les Bronzés et la bédé, c’est tout simplement à lire absolument :)
November 16, 2025
Hyvänmielen eurosarjakuvaa joka on jossain Barksin ja Rosan eläinhahmojen ja Tintin ja Pikon ja Fantasion välissä.
April 20, 2016
Laurent Chabosyn eli taiteilijanimeltään Lewis Trondheimin "Jälkiä rinteessä" (WSOY, 2003) on Jussi Jäniksen ihmeellisistä seikkailuista kertovan sarjan ensimmäinen osa.
Sarjakuvassa kuvataan neljän antropomorfisen eläinhahmon lomareissua laskettelukeskukseen, jonka lähistöllä kerrotaan liikkuvan tappajasuden. Vaikka toisin voisi kuvitella, susi esiintyy albumissa vain henkilöhahmojen puheissa. Trondheimin käsikirjoitus ei muutenkaan ole sieltä tavallisimmasta päästä, sillä albumissa ei oikeastaan tapahdu yhtään mitään ihmeellistä: rinteessä vietetään aikaa, illalla pistäydytään diskossa, tehdään käytännön piloja kavereille ja puhutaan ihmissuhteista.
Lopputulos on persoonallista, hiljaisen humoristista ja samalla varsin viihdyttävää aikuisten eurosarjakuvaa.
Sarjakuvassa kuvataan neljän antropomorfisen eläinhahmon lomareissua laskettelukeskukseen, jonka lähistöllä kerrotaan liikkuvan tappajasuden. Vaikka toisin voisi kuvitella, susi esiintyy albumissa vain henkilöhahmojen puheissa. Trondheimin käsikirjoitus ei muutenkaan ole sieltä tavallisimmasta päästä, sillä albumissa ei oikeastaan tapahdu yhtään mitään ihmeellistä: rinteessä vietetään aikaa, illalla pistäydytään diskossa, tehdään käytännön piloja kavereille ja puhutaan ihmissuhteista.
Lopputulos on persoonallista, hiljaisen humoristista ja samalla varsin viihdyttävää aikuisten eurosarjakuvaa.
December 18, 2023
Trondheim a cette capacité à pondre avec une régularité frénétique des albums "sympas". Ce n'est pas brillant ni désopilant et le dessin est franchement limité mais ca se laisse lire. l'auteur est en cela parfaitement adapté au marché culturel : quand Ayrolles ou Bilal sortent un tome, Lewis a déjà finalisé 10 lapinots. La qualité n'est à mon sens pas la même.
Slaloms en est une nouvelle illustration. Les 50 pages s'avalent en 30min et contiennent 2, 3 gags et bons mots mais c'est peu et l'album ne laissera rapidement aucun souvenir.
Un album qui ne parlera qu'aux privilégiés qui vont au ski et souhaitent revivre son atmosphère en petites tranches de vie à l'intérêt discutable
Slaloms en est une nouvelle illustration. Les 50 pages s'avalent en 30min et contiennent 2, 3 gags et bons mots mais c'est peu et l'album ne laissera rapidement aucun souvenir.
Un album qui ne parlera qu'aux privilégiés qui vont au ski et souhaitent revivre son atmosphère en petites tranches de vie à l'intérêt discutable
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December 11, 2021On m'a commandé un texte sur une oeuvre marquante de Trondheim. On m'a aussi fortement suggéré de ne pas choisir Approximativement, parce que c'est "trop un classique". J'ai donc relu Slaloms, qui a été mon introduction à Trondheim. C'est toujours aussi délicieusement anodin.
June 24, 2017
Une bonne BD humoristique. L’histoire est correcte, mais sans grand rebondissement. Je n’ai pas très bien compris où aboutissait l’intrigue du loup.
December 4, 2018
Zekan sa prijateljima ide na skijanje. Skijaju, izajdu, zabave se, upoznaju sa curama, možda vide vuka i vec je kraj odmoru i moraju poć doma. Jednostavno, zabavno, životno, duhovito.
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