The Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, located in London, is organising a colloquium on 9, 10 and 11 September entitled ‘Hybrides, Monstres and Other Aliens in the Literature of the Twentieth Century’. These creatures are not missing in the history of the comic strip (think, among other things, of Richard Corben and his Den Cycle, Tardi with the Adèle Blancsec series, Bilal and La Foire aux immortels, etc.). Contacted, the Lucile Desblaches tonic declared himself enchanted with the idea...