Stephen Robson, now-sole writer of Fanfare/Ponent Mon has requested clients not to order books from their official website due to access issues. In May Robson’s publishing accomplice Amiram Reuveni of Ponent Mon handed away, age 72, and along with his passing went access to the backend of the Fanfare/Ponent Mon on-line retailer. Robson has requested these with an e-mail receipt and unfulfilled orders from the website since April 26, 2023 ought to get in contact. In the meantime fans will want to order books by way of third get together retailers.
In an e-mail as we speak Robson mentioned:
“My publishing partner of 20 years, trading partner for a decade prior to that, great friend and near brother, Amiram Reuveni sadly died in May after a two year battle with cancer. He wasn’t meant to according to his medical advice. I did manage to make a public statement on my traditional flier for San Diego Comic Con but I baulked when it came to writing to you, our readers. For that I apologize.”
He then explains the scenario:
“Like many individuals working a small enterprise, Ami (like me) saved a lot of the knowledge in his head and one of many issues that went with him was access to our site. I can neither alter nor add to the Ponent Mon website. Worse, I can’t see if somebody has ordered and paid for a ebook from there nor access their funds. So…
“DO NOT ORDER A BOOK FROM OUR WEB SITE! I am working on a new site for next year in case the current one remains a closed book to me. Meanwhile you can order the vast majority of our titles from wherever good books are sold, or visit SPX in Bethesda, MD next month if you can and check out the Fanfare table.”
Despite the lack of half of the publishing crew, Robson has vowed to press on – with a brand new Kan Takahama title translated and deliberate for a late Spring 2024 launch, and a brand new Fanfare Presents title for May 2024 (Pieter de Poortere‘s Dickie: Natural Born Loser). He also plans a number of meetings with literary agents at October’s Frankfurt Book Fair to “start to populate the mid to late 2024 schedule and beyond with your favourite creators’ work”.
Fanfare/Ponent Mon was fashioned in 2003 as a publishing partnership between Stephen Robson of Fanfare and Amiram Reuveni of Ponent Mon with the specific intention to spotlight thrilling work from the French and Japanese different comics scenes to Spanish and English audiences. Ostensibly a two-man band, Fanfare/Ponent Mon are finest recognized for bringing the work of mangaka Jiro Taniguchi to the eye of English-language audiences together with Summit of the Gods, A Distant Neighbourhood, The Walking Man, and A Journal of My Father. The writer has acquired a heap of Eisner and Ignatz award nominations for its work.
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