Learn about comic strips with Largo Winch
November 2010
Have you ever dreamed of creating your own comic strip, or do you want to know more about the creation of an album? "The Largo Winch Method" offers comic strip fans, budding authors and fans of the series the chance to go behind the scenes of volume 15 of the adventures of the famous billionaire.
Comprising a DVD and a book, "The Largo Winch method" gives fans the chance to discover the different stages in the creation of a comic strip, from the development of the first sketches to the adding of the colours to the final boards. On the DVD, a fascinating documentary: a filmmaking team followed the scriptwriter Jean Van Hamme and the cartoonist Philippe Francq around during the creation of the fifteenth album in the series: "The Three Eyes of the Tao guardians". From the workshop to the tracking sessions in Hong Kong, the film realised by Yves Legrain Crist follows minute by minute the stages in creating a bestseller. Essential complement to the DVD, the book presents the archives for the creation of the episode: sketches, research, regrets, final sketches, text boxes, inked boards etc. Together, the book and DVD constitute a reference work of incredible richness, which will captivate both fans of the comic strip and budding authors wanting to learn more about the profession.
Plan
- Important press device
- "The Largo Winch method", book and DVD set run in 8,000 copies.
- advertisements in the press
- advertisement produced from the DVD and shown on the screens of shops part of the Canal BD network
- extracts from the DVD on blogs and social networks
- presence of Eyrolles, editor of the Largo Winch Method, at the Angoulême International Festival in 2011
Results
- Numerous articles in the specialised press: Zoo, dBD, Canal BD Magazine, Album Magazine, Casemate…