FIDÈLE - Support independent publishing

Fidèle Editions For 10 years, Fidèle has been publishing visual arts books: comics, contemporary drawing, painting & illustration. Attached to a specific editorial line, between alternative and independent comic book publishing, our catalog has maintained a certain coherence over all these years. Thus, through the gentle burden of the word Fidèle (Faithful), we have always wanted to find a way to remain fair in our choices, our bets, and our efforts. Guided by a desire to create books that we would want to see in a bookstore, our hybrid publications are located between several identified areas of art publishing. Through these picture books, we seek to generate a feeling of closeness and inspiration, with often handmade objects, always containing a certain preciousness, while remaining accessible and non-exclusive. We mainly publish emerging artists, but also more established and identified artists, with the same intention of valuing their work through production techniques, and integration into a demanding, coherent catalog. Studio Fidèle Formalized in 2017, when we set up at the Grands Voisins in Paris, our print workshop was born out of sharing and collaboration in this place where mutual aid and bartering have been vectors of evolution for dozens of occupants. We then naturally started offering our services as Riso printers in parallel to our editions. The success was greater than anticipated, and 2 years later, in 2019, we were selected in a city tender to develop a sustainable workshop in the beautiful Villa du Lavoir, in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. Our team currently consists of 4 to 6 people on site, depending on the time of year: a director, Vincent Longhi, two permanent employees, Mathilde Vizet & Marine Montagne. We also welcome one or two interns throughout the year, and we call on our former interns or other experienced collaborators for occasional print edition assignments, reinforcements for services, or other atypical projects. We collaborate with graphic designers for our editions, mainly Sometimes Always who designed our visual identity, and Jean-Philippe Bretin for the Confidens collection, as well as our riso poster collection L'inédite, and book covers. The Confidens Collection Today, on the occasion of our tenth anniversary, we are proud to announce our new "Confidens" collection. These works, intended as true objects of inspiration, highlight the singular work of an artist, and reveal, through a text they write, a part of their intimacy, a confession related to their practice. The mass-tinted covers are printed in monochrome riso for the title, then a sticker printed in four-color riso is applied. The whole is then hot stamped, metallic. Each book is made with special attention to detail, printed in risography up to 6 colors for some images, for a unique, time-consuming rendering, but which makes the pride of our house. When producing a book, we strive to find this specific sense of satisfaction that one can feel when creating an image. The search for a certain balance, the feeling of being right. In Camille Meyer's book, Free Time, fold-out pages have been inserted by hand, inviting the discovery of triptychs. This system reprises the operation of the text page written in the tone of confidence, itself folded, secret, to reveal. Magali Cazo's book unfolds on the right pages, successively, for 100 frontal images of diffused ink, shadows and lights, colors and masses of black. The books of Geoffroy Pithon and Corentin Garrido are already drawn, and will be revealed following the campaign, in the meantime, we invite you to discover an excerpt from the digital versions: More images of printed books: Passages, by Magali Cazo: https://fidele-editions.com/product/passages Temps libre, by Camille Meyer: https://fidele-editions.com/product/free-time The new catalog In order to continue publishing our books, and to ensure the production of the 8 projects in progress for the coming year, we do not have enough cash flow and cannot rely solely on Riso printing activity. Indeed, the development of our publishing house with the diversification of our offset works, requires us to get support. For all contributors, we will send an exclusive list of ongoing projects, with images of books, their story and their production and release dates until January 2024. By supporting us, you encourage our determination and innovation in the face of established models in the publishing and printing sectors. You allow Faithful to continue to be this place of creation and exchange, where the desire to do is at the center. A free donation, a donation of €5, every gesture counts. Each support is a step closer to the sustainability of our workshop, to the possibility of continuing to do what we love: create, publish, create connection and inspiration! We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your generosity and support! ♡ 🖼️ The Campaign Poster The campaign poster was created by Raphaelle Macaron, who has collaborated with Fidèle since its inception and followed all its developments. This Lebanese author and illustrator had managed an incredible feat by raising more than 90,000 euros in donations following the explosion at the port of Beirut in 2020. We proudly produced with her the riso posters that were sent to hundreds of contributors. We still distribute this series today. The image of the campaign in Risography, sent to all contributors: It will then be printed in 4-color screen printing by the PPP workshop, in Paris, in a large 50 x 70 cm format!