• SAGA ends!
    02 May 2013
    Since September 2010, Close Call Comics publishes SAGA, a brand new webcomic set during World War II and starring characters destined to become super-heroes. This long-term project, some might say ambitious, is now evolving towards more opened fields, experimentation and more freedom in what we aim to publish.   The ongoing SAGA serie leaves its place to several mini-series. The first of these mini-series, the one you have been reading so far, is now titled « Close Call Comics Presents : THE HEROIC PATROL ».   Other mini-series will follow, and each will focus on different sets of characters. We will try to explore other formats, other types of storytelling, other genres of stories, while maintaining a cohesive universe. The episodes will resume in the coming weeks, to a different rythm : they won’t be weekly anymore but they will feature more pages (5 pages minimum). We will still offer you different ways to enter the Close Call Comics universe, through new character profiles, short stories, fan-arts and other surprises to come. The website itself will be remodeled to provide a simpler interface and easiest ways to read the pages on different screens. Close Call Comics stays online, in both french and english, and remains free, we count on you all to spread the good news!   Until we have the pleasure to see you again on salons, conventions, or on the wall of our facebook page, know that we are really thankfull for all your enthusiasm and support!
  • LILLE COMICS FESTIVAL 2013!
    02 April 2013
    In a few days, you'll be able to come and say "hi" for real, and get some sketches, goodies and kisses aplenty, at the LILLE COMICS FESTIVAL! will attend the festival at the Close Call Comics booth We will be so fresh and so clean and available all day long on saturday and sunday. This year, the festival takes place at la Gare Saint Sauveur, and the entrance is free, so no excuse for not coming, okay!
  • Happy New Year 2013
    04 January 2013
    Hey hey hey to all of you! Hope you had an awesome New Year's Eve and that you are full of good vibrations and brand new resolutions if you needed any. As for me, 2013 will be a big milestone for I will finally be able to concentrate exclusively on Close Call Comics. You might have noticed that these past few months have been kind of quiet, and I admit it was about time I did something about it. So, a few months from now, I will be dedicated full time to Close Call Comics, hard at work writing, penciling, inking for my greatest pleasure, and hopefully, for yours too. It is some kind of bet for me so I will need you all more than ever to get it right. Please keep expressing yourselves (through the facebook page or via contact@closecallcomics.com) and as always feel free to share the links around, the more the merrier ! Of course my goal this year will be to finish the first season, with the not so secret thought, to have it published in a long version form. The follow-up is already in the works. the plots get thicker and richer with new characters, and you might even see other artists tackle  some key chapters of this second season titled "Welcome to Greeton". This second season will also be a good way for me to try new styles, new methods of work, new rythm of publications, and a brand new website. But before we get to that, I would like to thank you again for your support, your fidelity and your advises. I will do my very best to make sure that you are fully rewarded for that. Maxime.
  • MEET ME AT FESTIBLOG 2012!
    31 July 2012
    Hey hey ! Like that old Timbaland would say "it's been a long time!". it IS true that it has been quite a while since our latest news. So here it is, THE announcement of the day: I've been invited to FESTIBLOG 2012. The Festiblog, dafuq is that? It's a rather awesome festival put together by a team of passionnate people and exclusively dedicated to comics blogs and webcomics. It 's the 8th edition and I really hope there will be LOADS of people coming around, cause I'll be there the whole 2 days, drawing, chatting and everything. it will be in Paris 3rd arrt, September 29th and 30th. You can take a look at my interviex on the Festiblog website, and leave little comments or share it all around via your favorite social networks. Maxime  
  • 29 March 2012
  • 5 EXCLUSIVES PAGES FOR BODOI.INFO!
    19 March 2012
    Here we are!
    You were dying to know more about the SAGA's characters, their powers, their crossed destiny and you could not wait anymore? Exceptionnaly, Close Call Comics delivers for you 5 exclusives pages in preview on Bodoï.info!
    During the Angoueme Festival in January, amongs the amazing contacts we made, we met Benjamin, Bodoi's editor in chief, the comic book explorer.
    As he really likes SAGA, he offers us to release in preview, in french and exclusivly 5 pages of the serie to introduce it to the readers across the world (or almost)
    Last September, Max and Nido worked like crazies to deliver in time a similar project for the magazine Horizons Fantastiques who, sadly, ceased to be published before the releasing of those 5 pages.
    Benjamin's offer was a great opportunity and we thank him again for opening his door to our characters.

    These 5 pages we be integrated shortly in the story, in the same time, itthe occasion to introduce SAGA to your friends because of the contexte who's explain, the links between the characters and also because we deliver, whitout spoiling, what gonna happen in the next episode!
    Enough with tallking, see you on Bodoi.info right now, enjoy!
  • CLOSE CALL COMICS AT THE ANGOULÊME FESTIVAL !
    09 January 2012
    Hi all,

    For this new year, we made great resolutions! One of them was to increase our presence on festival, and so we do!
    During our last journey in Lille for the Lille Comics Festival, the prozine Scarce kindly offered us to join them in South-West of France and share some space on their booth at the Angoulême Festival!

    With such an opportunity, they also invited us to be part of their presentation booklet which will be distributed for free during the entire festival!

    We will share the "Scarspace" with Abby Denson, Fred Harper, Molly Crabapple, Yuko Koyama and Frédéric Grivaud, all French and International artists also invited by Scarce.

    So, if by any chance you're on the neighborood, come by and say hello!
  • THE LCF, A WEEK AFTER
    13 November 2011
    Last week the Close Call Comics team went to the LCF for 2 intensive days of festival full with promise. Here’s a small assessment of this weekend after a week of recovery.
  • Close Call Comics at the Lille Comics Festival!
    21 October 2011
    Close Call Comics is thrilled to announce we will be at the Lille Comics Festival the next 5th and 6th of November!
  • Horizons Fantastiques magazine cancelled
    14 October 2011
    We recently had confirmation of this sad news: Horizons Fantastiques's 3rd issue won't be available in newsstands. After the 2 first issues which had trouble finding their audience, there will be no paper version for the 3rd issue. But the Horizons Fantastiques team is looking for a solution to make this issue available online. Of course in that case the 6 pages of SAGA we delivered would be part of this "online edition" which will probably be for sale. We will keep you posted on any other opportunity we might have to get those pages "paper-published". Meanwhile, know, in time, that they will be available for free on our website anyway.   We are sending our best thoughts to the Horizons Fantastiques Team and wish them success in their next projects.
  • SAGA SOON IN NEWS-STAND
    07 September 2011
    During the last Comic Con Paris, we were introduced to the team behind the "Horizons Fantastiques" magazine, and guess what? SAGA has been selected to publish 6 exclusive pages in the magazine's october issue!
  • INTERVIEW ON NOWATCH TV
    10 July 2011
    Nowatch.net is a cool website, dedicated on podcasts and all contents exclusively broadcast online During Paris Comic Con i was lucky to meet their colorful team, most notably Cedric Bonnet, who took the time to interview me Thanks to Nowatch for putting the spotlight on  Close Call Comics and SAGA, it was an real honor for us, and it definitely is a big help too ! watch the interview Max.
  • COMIC CON 2011
    30 June 2011

    Here we are! The new Close Call Comics website makes its debut. A new look and a different layout (a little less blog, a little more website), that we hope you will like. All episodes have been posted, they are now much more accessible, via the homepage or the whole list, and more readable as well. Lots of other contents will be added in the coming weeks. We will announce them here and of course on our twitter account, and facebook page.

     

    And it's right on time for the big early summer Comics event  : Paris Comic Con A few paper sampler of SAGA has been printed, as well as the press kit and other web exclusive drawings. That's right, Close Call Comics IS attending the Paris Coming Con, from thursday 30th, june 10AM, to Sunday 3rd. July 7PM. Come meet us at the WIP Agency booth, in the Artists's Alley.  We will be available for free sketches, talks, laughs and all !

     

    Thanks to the WIP Agency for inviting us to the Con. Aand last but not least... A big fat thank you and congrats to

    - Leo, who outdid himself with all the technical development of the website

    - Sandra, who designed the press kit and handled all the printing material like a boss

    - Gabriel, who reached out to journalists, websites and bloggers and organize this 4-days crazyness