Industry Comics Website Cinebook.co.uk Type of business Comic publisher | Founder Olivier Cadic Founded 2005 | |
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Headquarters Canterbury, United Kingdom Profiles | ||
Cinebook Ltd is a British publishing company that publishes comic albums and graphic novels. It describes itself as "the 9th art publisher," the 9th art being comics in continental Europe, especially France, Belgium and Italy.
Contents
They typically translate French comics into English and have also issued an original series about the French Queen Marguerite de Valois, also known as Queen Margot. Cinebook works with a team of translators, including native speakers of French, British English and American English.
Titles
So far, the company has published, or plans to publish, the following comic series:
Awards
Olivier Cadic was given the French National Order of Merit, according to the Birmingham Mail this award is:
a vindication of his work to make an important part of French culture available in the English-speaking world through Cinebook, as the ambassador himself noted when noting the publisher had now printed twice as many Lucky Luke books in the last three years as had been published in the previous fifty.
Censorship
Cinebook have often been criticized by consumers for the fact that many of their releases are censored from the original works, a practise which usually affects comics which depict nudity, including books which in their original form were released for adult target audiences with an appropriate age rating.