Emma & Capucine, Volume 1
$32.30
- Paperback
104 pages
- Release Date
3 June 2025
Summary
This stylish, full-color bande dessinee is a beautiful coming-of-age story focusing on themes of family, friendship, self-confidence, and personal growth through the lens of music and dance.
Emma and Violette are sisters who share the same dream of attending Paris’s most prestigious dance school. Violette passes the first audition with flying colors, but Emma doesn’t, and their world comes crashing down. But there may be more than one way to dance through life…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781427880666 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1427880662 |
| Author: | Jerome Hamon, Lena Sayaphoum |
| Publisher: | Tokyopop Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Tokyopop Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 3 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 7mm x 154mm x 230mm |
| Audience Age: | 8-9 |
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Jerome Hamon
French author Jérôme Hamon began his professional life in New York as a financial analyst after studying at an American university and business school. Two years later, convinced his desired life lay elsewhere, he left the finance world to travel the globe.
Upon returning to France, Hamon worked in various roles within the film, video game, and television industries. Concurrently, he started writing his first comic book and graphic novel scripts. In 2008, he met artist Marc Van Straceele at Angoulême, leading to their collaboration on Yokozuna, a graphic novel about sumo wrestling in Japan (Kana, 2013).
Hamon then partnered with artist Antoine Carrion for Nils, a saga blending Nordic mythology with Miyazaki’s style (Soleil, 2016). This was followed by Emma & Capucine, a series for younger readers exploring classical dance and hip-hop (Dargaud 2017, Europe Comics in English 2018), and Mitsuo, with artist Cédric Babouche (Le Lombard, 2018).
Lena Sayaphoum was born in Montpellier in 1989. Drawing has been central to her life from an early age. Inspired by artists like James Jean, Peter Chan, Craig Mullins, and Dice Tsutsumi, she developed her own artistic style through self-teaching.
After studying 2D and 3D computer graphics, she worked in various studios as a concept artist, modeler, texture artist, and specializing in posing and shadowing. With Grid VFX, she contributed to projects such as Asterix and Obelix: Mansion of the Gods.
Sayaphoum’s true passion, however, lay in creating her own worlds. Alongside her professional work, she developed personal creative projects, ranging from fantasy to realistic narratives, all deeply personal.
In 2017, she collaborated with Jérôme Hamon on their first comic project, Emma & Capucine, merging her passion for drawing and illustration with her love for dance.
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