Edward Gauvin

The translator of more than 250 graphic novels, Edward Gauvin has won the John Dryden Translation prize and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Award.

Four Fabulist Fables

By Pierre Bettencourt

Winter 2019
Pierre Bettencourt

“Gravity” by Dani Montesinos Feet to Feet My wife and I have a way of sleeping that might seem a bit bizarre: neither face-to-face nor back-to-back, but with the soles of our feet pressed togethe...
Our Lady of the Scales

By Mélanie Fazi

November 2018
Mélanie Fazi

Photo: Michael Gaida/Pixabay Following a hysterectomy, a woman is drawn to the gothic ambience of a stone statuary garden at her lover’s family’s home. My third sleepless night in t...
The Tenants

By Anne Richter

May 2018
Anne Richter

Photo: Daria Nepriakhina/Pixabay T he old man lived in a vast, dark house, windows blind with frosted glass, door adorned with a heavy bronze knocker. At one time or another, all five of his children...
The House

By Pierrette Fleutiaux

May 2018
Pierrette Fleutiaux

Duo III, 2013, oil on canvas by André Schulze Courtesy of the artist/andreschulze.com A mother inside, a daughter outside. Has her mother shrunk, or has she always been...
Moving the Palace by Charif Majdalani

By Charif Majdalani

May 2017
Charif Majdalani

New York. New Vessel Press. 2017. 200 pages. Moving the Palace won both the François Mauriac Prize from the Académie Française and the Prix Tropiques, so one opens its pages with high expecta...
Pascin by Joann Sfar

By Joann Sfar

September 2016
Joann Sfar

Minneapolis, Minnesota. Uncivilized Books. 2016. 186 pages. Through a series of vignettes depicting the personal life and sexual escapades of Julius Mordecai Pincas (Pascin), French cartoonist Joann S...
The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome by Serge Brussolo

By Serge Brussolo

May 2016
Serge Brussolo

Brooklyn. Melville House. 2016. 196 pages. Serge Brussolo is largely unknown in the English-speaking world; The Deep Sea Diver’s Syndrome is the first of his books to be translated into Engli...
Peplum by Blutch

By Blutch

March 2016
Blutch

New York. New York Review Comics. 2016. 160 pages. “The nostalgia for purity, the ghost of a perfect love—these are a drunkard’s despair.” Spoken by the work’s impostor protagonist’s seemingly mute “l...
Weapons of Mass Diplomacy by Abel Lanzac

By Abel Lanzac

September 2014
Abel Lanzac

Edward Gauvin, tr. Christophe Blain, ill. London / New York. SelfMadeHero / Abrams. 2014. ISBN 9781906838782 Weapons of Mass Diplomacy demonstrates indisputably that a graphic novel can provi...