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January 4, 2008 - Happy new year (again) !!!
 
Oh, it's party time after all.... So here's another greeting card for you !

Happy new year 2008 !!!

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January 3, 2008 - Aurita.net is one year old today !
 
Well, as a matter of fact, it was YESTERDAY...

I messed up again : last year I was already one day late (I wanted to launch the website on January 1, 2007)... Next year I'll be three days late !

Anyway, happy new year 2008 !!!

To celebrate the new year and the site's birthday, rendez-vous at the "bonus" section ! It will be my greeting card, the word "love" written 40 times in the same page...

...we don't do things half-heartedly at aurita.net !


December 22, 2007 - Radio interview (France)
 
On Friday, December 21 at 3 p.m., I was Tewfik Hakem's guest on the A plus d'un titre program on France Culture.

More information at the program's website

At the "media" corner, you can download the program in mp3 format.


December 3, 2007 - New articles (Belgium, France, Spain)
 
Well, the tour is over...
Lots of nice encounters, closeness and expressions of affection that turned me upside down !
Many thanks to you all !!!

With all this, I've been late with the updates... At the "media" corner, you'll find 5 new articles (Livres Hebdo, El País, Público.es, 20Minutes.fr and La Libre Belgique). I've also updated my "comics" page.

Otherwise, between signings, I made my first short story in color ! It is 7 pages long and will be published in the next special issue of Beaux-Arts Magazine (France) on December 15.

I'll be able to rest a bit, before I start my next project...


September 28, 2007 - Aurélia Aurita and Frédéric Boilet get it on and get it out this Fall
(Belgium, France, Spain)
 
On the occasion of the simultaneous publication in France and Spain of Fraise et Chocolat 2 and the Spanish releases of Elles and Yukiko's Spinach, Aurélia Aurita et Frédéric Boilet will go on a book-signing tour in Paris, Saint-Malo, Barcelona, Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon, Brussels, Liège, Metz and Nancy, between October 19 and December 1.

More information at boilet.net


August 23, 2007 - Fraise et Chocolat 2 (France)
 
The first sample pages of Fraise et Chocolat 2 are now available at the Impressions Nouvelles website (in French) !

It is a complete mini-episode of 3 pages
... More sample pages will be unveiled until the book is released on October 19, 2007...

And if you have the time, please check out boilet.net, Frédéric has just put new souvenir pictures of our tours in Finland, Portugal and Bolivia !



August 14, 2007 - Morango e Chocolate (Brazil)
 
Fraise et Chocolat has just been released in Brazil by Casa 21 !

Morango e Chocolate

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July 4, 2007 - Fraise et Chocolat 2 (France)

It's official : Fraise et Chocolat 2 will be released in France on October 19, 2007 by Les Impressions Nouvelles ! I haven't got much time left to finish it... It'll probably take me the whole summer ! Well, anyway, summer is the worst season in Japan. Too hot and humid to go out... Better stay at home and work !
In January, I said there would be excerpts of my new book on this website... Unfortunately, I don't have enough hindsight yet to choose the most representative ones... But here's the cover as well as an extract from the press release (in French) :
Fraise et Chocolat 2 !!!

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Tout le monde a lu Fraise et Chocolat, l'un des événements éditoriaux de 2006 qui a permis la découverte d'une voix de femme totalement nouvelle en bande dessinée. Personne n'avait jamais parlé d'amour et de sexe comme Aurélia Aurita: avec franchise mais aussi avec humour, avec crudité mais non sans candeur.

Le temps passe. “Chocolat” (Chenda) aime toujours “Fraise” (Frédéric), et en est toujours aimée, mais aux ébats se mêle le doute, l'enthousiasme se teinte de peur. Le monde extérieur aussi est là: une amie attachante (Kan Takahama), un voisin raciste, le quotidien et ses contraintes, la menace de la séparation, les superstitions petites et grandes de l'héroïne qui va jusqu'à invoquer le divin… Mais surtout il y a l'amour, et les vraies-fausses naïvetés qui font le style incomparable d'Aurélia Aurita et l'enchantement du lecteur (et des lectrices).


May 14, 2007 - Morango e Chocolate (Brazil)

After the publications in French and Spanish (2006), Fraise et Chocolat will be released in Portuguese in 2007 by Casa 21 (Brazil).
Meanwhile, Fraise et Chocolat 2 is in progress... The French edition will be released next October by Les Impressions Nouvelles.


April 17, 2007 - Nouvelle Manga in La Paz (Bolivia)
 
From 18th to 31st of May 2007
Quinto Encuentro Internacional De Historietas
Museo Tambo Quirquincho
Plaza Alonzo de Mendosa
La Paz, Bolivia


Presented in October 2005 at the Bunsei University of Art in Utsunomiya (Japan), then in April 2006 at the ABC cinema in Toulouse (France) and in October 2006 at the Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada da Amadora (Portugal), the Nouvelle Manga exhibition will open on May 18, 2007 at the Museo Tambo Quirquincho in La Paz (Bolivia), on the occasion of the Quinto Encuentro Internacional De Historietas.

The exhibition will show original plates and reproductions from the anthology Japan (Fanfare / Ponent Mon 2006) as well as drawings from Fresa y Chocolate (Ponent Mon 2006), A Patch of Dreams by Hideji Oda (Fanfare / Ponent Mon 2005), Mariko Parade by Kan Takahama and Frédéric Boilet (Fanfare / Ponent Mon 2004) and Yukiko's Spinach by Frédéric Boilet (Fanfare / Ponent Mon 2003).

As guests of the festival and the Alliance Française of Cochabamba, Aurélia Aurita and Frédéric Boilet will be in La Paz and Cochabamba from 15th to 24th of May.

Festival website (in Spanish)
Alliance Française of Cochabamba website (in Spanish)


April 14, 2007 - A new interview (Switzerland)
 
At the "media" corner, link to the complete transcript of an interview by Fabien Thévenot, for an article that appeared today in the Swiss newspaper Le Courrier (in French).


February 23, 2007 - Go sit in the corner, Aurita ! (France)
 
English version coming soon...



Link to French version.


January 2, 2007 - Launching of Aurita.net !
 
Welcome to my very first website !

Frédéric gave me this domain name for my birthday.

I designed this website myself, so please be gentle... I forced myself to learn, so I wouldn't have to rely on other people to update it. This is why I prefer to call it my "mini website"... It will improve with my computer skills !
Right now, I am in Japan working on the sequel to Fraise et Chocolat... The book will be approximately 200 pages long and it will be published in France in Autumn 2007. I may put some excerpts in the "bonus" part of this website.

Happy new year to you all !