Casus belli

See also: Casus belli

Casus Belli was a French-speaking Magazine treating Roleplay, Jeu on Internet and of the Culture of imaginary the. According to the times, it was two-monthly or monthly. A Casus belli is a Latin phrase meaning “case of war”, i.e. situation generating a declaration of war between two countries; the title refers to the war games ( wargames ), which were dominating at the beginnings. One of the headings was baptized besides Cave canem (“malicious dog attention”) because it was the following phrase in the pink pages of the dictionary Larousse… In the same way for the character of a small cartoon, Canis lupus .

History

First time

The first number of Casus Belli , subtitle “the magazine of the plays of simulation”, appeared in April 1980. Quarterly, black & white, 32 pages, frozen cover, sold 9 FF. Untraceable in kiosk, because unknown of the distribution systems, one could get it in certain shops of play. Among them, in particular, the shops Plays Descartes and the Egg cubes; the latter, located street Linné at Paris, was close to the Faculté of Jussieu, the students were thus the been useful first and also, with some others, the first advertisers of the newspaper.

Casus Belli was created on the initiative of very an young man who had just been engaged like “ludologist” at Jeux Descartes. François Marcela, which was made call François Marcela-Froideval and that one knows besides today like creative of data base under the pseudonym of François Froideval, had founded little time before the French federation of the plays of strategic and tactical simulation (FFJSST). Casus Belli was to be the communications tools of this association.

Francois, who did not have necessary competences with the realization of one newspaper to the height of his ambitions, but which could be surrounded, had recruited for the circumstance a young person and talented model maker of Jeux & Stratégie (newspaper pertaining to the group having the shops Jeux Descartes), Didier Guiserix.

After more than two years of somewhat erratic operation, Casus Belli ends up finding its crenel, besides among the Rôliste S than among the Wargame rs for which it was however more particularly intended at the beginning. Francois, president autocratic with life of FFJSST decided whereas this one was to sell to him the newspaper, which was made, for frank a symbolic system.

The progression continued. One had soon to start to republish the first numbers (the number one had been initially drawn only with 2  000 specimens). When Plays & Stratégie disappeared, the group which published it started to look with desire on the side of Casus Belli . It was all the more founded to do it, that Casus was entirely conceived in its buildings, by at least two of its employees. The business is concluded by the resale from the newspaper for 10 KF with Excelsior Publications. On what François was laid off from Jeux Descartes, Didier Guiserix promoted editor association in the place of Francois, and the newspaper finally distributed in kiosk.

The bad health of the market of the roleplay makes that the magazine becomes overdrawn at the end of the Nineties. Excelsior Publications, the owner, puts an end to Casus Belli in 1999 with number 122.

Second time

The title was then taken again by Arkana Close, company of press whose publication director is Frederic Weil, in addition leader of Multisim.

Number 1 of the new series was published in March 2000. The news hangs magazine was " Roleplays, plays online and cultures of the imaginaire" , thus indicating a pluri-sectoral approach intended to open the rolists at other horizons and to mark the place of the roleplay to the crossroads of several cultures.

After the Liquidation legal of Multisim, marked on September 11th, 2003 and announced in the number 23 of the magazine, this one saw the departure of most of its contributors. The drafting of Casus Belli became collegial then, and only the sub-editor remained paid of Arkana Close, the other collaborators of the magazine being all under the statute of Pigiste. This station is finally removed in April 2006, and the pagination of the magazine passed from 84 to 68 pages. Finally, Arkana Close published the last number of Casus Belli , the 39, in November 2006, and announced its desire to resell the title.

Collaborators associated with Casus Belli

At various moments of its history:

  • Bruno Bellamy (draftsman) and his “bellaminettes”

  • Bruno Chevalier (scenario writer): cartoon Kroc Bô
  • Sebastien Celerin
  • Fabrice Hake
  • Caza (draftsman, carried out several covers)
  • Arnaud Cuidet
  • Coucho (draftsman), for the chronicle the Barbarian breaks out (reference to the Canard Enchaîné)
  • André Dého-Firns
  • Philippe Fenot
  • Cédric Ferrand
  • Mathieu Gaborit
  • Didier Guiserix: scenarios, articles, illustrations (of which famous “the crapougnâts”, of small characters of triangular form)
  • Tristan Lhomme: Sub-editor, scenario writer.
  • François Marcela-Froideval
  • Christophe Mouchel
  • Jean-Marie Christmas: severe model maker, called " Pitbull"
  • Guillaume Nonain
  • Serge Olivier: editor association
  • Pierre Rosenthal: editor association of the " Out-Série"
  • Thierry Ségur (draftsman): cartoon Kroc Bô
  • Olivier Tubach: tests of plays on computers
  • Anne Vétillard
  • Roland C. Wagner (author of Science fiction): heading SF.
  • Guillaume de Casaban: heading Internet

External bonds

  • Page of FFJdR on Casus Belli

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