Parent company | Casterman |
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Country of origin | Belgium |
Headquarters location | Tournai |
Publication types | Books |
Fiction genres | Manga |
Official website | www |
Sakka is a Belgian publisher of manga; it is an imprint of Casterman.
Jacques Tardi is a French comics artist. He is often credited solely as Tardi.
The Prize for Best Album, also known as the Fauve d'Or, is awarded to comics authors at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing awards such as Oscar results, the winner of the award for that year is listed first, the others listed below are the nominees.
Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier was a Belgian who conducted a parallel career of botanist and Member of Parliament.
Casterman is a publisher of Franco-Belgian comics, specializing in comic books and children's literature. The company is based in Brussels, Belgium.
Kashima Soccer Stadium is a football stadium in the city of Kashima, in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It is the home stadium of the Kashima Antlers, a team in the J1 League. The stadium has a capacity of 40,728.
Ahmed Mohamed Salah El Din El Sakka, is an Egyptian action actor.
Śakra is the ruler of the Trāyastriṃśa Heaven according to Buddhist cosmology. He is also referred to by the title "Śakra, Lord of the Devas". The name Śakra ("powerful") as an epithet of Indra is found in several verses of the Rigveda.
Sakka or Saqqa is a village to the southeast of Damascus, on the edge of the Ghouta, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north west of Damascus International Airport in Syria.
Ras ben Sakka is the northernmost point of the African continent, extending from Cape Angela in northern Tunisia into the Mediterranean Sea.
Thierry "Ted" Benoit was a French comic artist, graphic novelist and prominent figure in the stylish Franco-Belgian ligne claire comics scene in the 1980s. His influences included Edgar P. Jacobs, Moebius, Robert Crumb and to a lesser extend Jacques Tardi.
Groupe Flammarion is a French publishing group, comprising many units, including its namesake, founded in 1876 by Ernest Flammarion, as well as units in distribution, sales, printing and bookshops. Flammarion became part of the Italian media conglomerate RCS MediaGroup in 2000. Éditions Gallimard acquired Flammarion from RCS MediaGroup in 2012. Subsidiaries include Casterman. Its headquarters in Paris are in the building that was the former Café Voltaire, located on the Place de l'Odeon in the current 6th arrondissement of Paris.
La fièvre d'Urbicande is a graphic novel by Belgian comic artists François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, the second volume of their ongoing Les Cités Obscures series. It was first published in serialized form starting in 1983 in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine À Suivre (#68–73), and as a complete volume first in 1985 by Casterman. In English, it was published as Fever in Urbicand in 1990 by NBM Publishing.
La route d'Armilia is a graphic novel by Belgian comic artists François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, the fourth volume of their ongoing Les Cités Obscures series. It was first published in an early, notably different version in Danish as Vejen Til Armilia in 1987, in its final form in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine À Suivre (#123), and as a standalone French album first in 1988 by Casterman. Although subsequently also published in at least Dutch and German, La route d'Armilia remains unpublished in English as of 2008; however, an English translation authorized by Casterman is available on the internet as a .txt file. An unofficial digital edition has been produced by lettering French scans with this English manuscript.
Brüsel is a graphic novel by Belgian comic artists François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, the fifth volume of their ongoing Les Cités Obscures series. It was first published in serialized form in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine À Suivre, and as a complete volume first in 1992 by Casterman. In English, it was published as Brüsel in 2001 by NBM Publishing.
Strawberry Shortcakes aka. Sweet Cream & Red Strawberries is a one-volume manga written and illustrated by Kiriko Nananan, published by Shodensha in 2002. It is about the lives of four young women in a large city. It was licensed in French by Casterman manga imprint Sakka and in Italy by Kappa Edizioni. Strawberry Shortcakes was adapted into a film of the same title. It was once licensed for English release by Central Park Media as Sweet Cream & Red Strawberries.
Battle Soccer: Field no Hasha is a soccer video game, developed by Pandora Box and published by Banpresto, which was released exclusively in Japan in 1992.
Sakka Podu Podu Raja is a 1978 Indian Tamil-language film directed by S. P. Muthuraman, starring Jaishankar and Jayachitra. Kamal Haasan and Fatafat Jayalaxmi played guest roles. The film was hit at the box office.
The Walking Man is a Japanese manga by Jiro Taniguchi. It was serialized in Kodansha's Morning Party Zōkan from 1990 to 1991. It has been published in English by Fanfare/Ponent Mon and in French by Casterman. It was nominated for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Japan at the 2007 Eisner Awards.
Yomawari Sensei is a Japanese autobiographical manga series written by Osamu Mizutani and illustrated by Seiki Tsuchida. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly Ikki from February 2005 to December 2008. The manga is based on Mizutani's autobiographical book of the same title published in 2004.
Witches is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Daisuke Igarashi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly Ikki from April 2003 to November 2004, with its chapters collected in two tankōbon volumes. The series is licensed for English release in North America by Seven Seas Entertainment. Witches received an Excellence Award at the 8th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2004.