- MensuHell
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MensuHell Editor Steve Requin ;
Francis Hervieux.Categories Comics fanzine Frequency Monthly First issue December 1999 Final issue December 2008 Company Éditions Les Publications Requin Roll Country Canada ISSN 1912-9769 MensuHell is a Canadian comics fanzine published in Montréal in Québec from December 1999 to December 2008.
With 109 issues, MensuHell is probably the Québec comics fanzine which has the longest run. The name MensuHell is a sound-alike portmanteau of the French word "mensuel" (monthly), and the English word "hell".
Contents
Description of the content
The content of the periodical publication MensuHell is principally made of original material of bandes dessinées, with some editorial texts and historical ones.
MensuHell has been steadily presenting an average of 40 pages of comics in every issue, alongside articles on Quebec comics by comics historians Michel Viau and Marc Jetté.
The contributors are from Canada and are mostly francophones. Some of the comics are published in English.
History
The founder of MensuHell is the comics artist Steve Requin whom was also its former editor, but ownership has since been passed to the comics fan Francis Hervieux in 2003.
MensuHell was sold in Montréal and in Québec city, in specialized comics stores.
With 109 issues, MensuHell enjoys one of the longest run for a fanzine published in Quebec.
Contributors
Some of these artists work under a pseudonym.
Comics artists
The Québec comics artists are usually complete artists : they make the script, the pencils, the inks and the letters of their comics pages. It happens that they work with a writer.
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- Al+Flag (Alain Gosselin)
- Avary (Jean-François April)
- Kurt Beaulieu
- Mathieu Benoît
- Jacques Boivin
- Guillaume Boucher
- Guy Boutin
- David Carles
- Julien Chung
- Pierre-Yves Clerson
- Antoine Corriveau
- Duy
- Leanne Franson
- Gag (André Gagnon)
- Richard Gagnon
- Laurent Gautreau
- Luc Giard
- Philippe Gonyea
- Guert
- Arnaud Hilmarcher
- Marc Jetté
- Noée Joanisse
- Benoît Joly
- Karl
- Michel Lacombe
- Félix Laflamme
- Michèle Laframboise
- Mathieu Quesnel
- Billy Mavreas
- Valérie Morency
- Luis Neves
- Marc Pageau
- Patrofskynoff
- Éric Piccoli
- Nicolas Plamondon
- Steve Requin
- Louis Rémillard
- Jack Ruttan
- Salgood Sam (Max Douglas)
- Sirkowski (Sébastien Fréchette)
- Éric Thériault
- Jane Tremblay
- Zviane
See also
Sources
- BDQ, Répertoire des publications de bandes dessinées au Québec des origines à nos jours, 1999, Michel Viau, éditions Mille-Îles, Laval ;
- Histoire de la bande dessinée au Québec, 2008, Mira Falardeau, VLB éditeur, Études québécoises collection, Montréal.
External links
- (French) Official MensuHell website.
Categories:- Fanzines
- Magazines published in Montreal
- Publications established in 1999
- 1999 comic debuts
- Culture of Montreal
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