Art For Art’s Sake # 116 – The Magnificent Margaux Motin
by Richard Bruton
Hold everything, it’s time for another few moments of artistic bliss… it’s Art For Art’s Sake…
Greg Smallwood – Nick Fury –
Marguerite Sauvage – cover of Ruin for The Dreaming: Waking Hours #11
Gahan Wilson –
Detective Comics #1035 by Lee Bermejo –
Sam Kieth Marvel Comics Presents #97 –
David Roach put up some truly wonderful work from Jae Lee –
Greg Staples – Marshal Law commission – colour rough –
Josie & The Pussycats #1 – Colleen Coover –
Bandette by Colleen Coover –
Christian Ward –
Steven Austin –
Mike McKone –
Mary Fleener –
Roberta Gregory – “Here is my contribution to the Restroom controversy. Sing along with me…”
Now, to end with – Margaux Motin
Oh, I love Motin’s work. Have done since first seeing it with 2012’s But I Really Wanted To Be An Anthropologist from SelfMadeHero.
Her work, as I said before when her second English translated work, Plate Techtonics, came out from Boom!, is “gorgeously, glamourously, stylishly, effortlessly funny and oh so magnificently clever.”
There’s a style and comedy that’s all her own, a sassiness, a sexiness, a cheekiness, all mixed in with exquisitely polished artistic and comedic craft. Most of her work is something that’s comics for sure, but she tends to lose the formal structure of comics, letting her work simply flow across the page, unhindered by the more traditional ideas of panel structure.
I love everything she does, love that her life is documented in her comics, an idealised version for sure but she’s far from painting herself as the perfect, classic Parisian woman, cutting across the chaos of day to day life in an effortless swirl of perfume and Chanel. No, instead, Motin’s life is all about the chaos and the devastation and it’s so wonderful to see.
There’s plenty more to translate – The Theory of Contortion, her wedding book, Oui, Very Bad Twinz with Paco… I can only pray we’ll see more from her in English very soon – but until then, I shall keep hitting Google Translate to get the best out of her work.
She’s on Instagram, Facebook, plus there’s her old website.
So, a few of Margaux Motin‘s wonderful works…
Badass –
‘Biarritz My Love – ‘What do I like people who pass, people on the street, people in their clothes, attitudes, personalities, small gestures … How beautiful are they’
