On August 1 , 1985 , US Customs officials seized copies of Massimo Mattioli 's '' Squeak the Mouse '' on grounds that they were obscene . Since all of Catalan 's publications were adult-only material , and at least as susceptible to seizure as '' Squeak the Mouse '' , Metz chose to fight the obscenity charge in court . Metz won the case , and distributors actually increased their orders for '' Squeak the Mouse '' following the seizure , despite a coinciding price increase on the book . In 1990 , the Cabanes graphic novel was the winner of the Grand Prix at France 's Angoulême International Comics Festival . One of Bell 's translated books for Catalan revealed errors in an earlier '' Heavy Metal '' translation of the same story . James Keller , the Germanic studies scholar , translated the German edition of Sacher-Masoch 's '' Venus in Furs '' ( Guido Crepax ) in 1991 , the year the company released its last titles . Tom Leighton was the IT arm of the firm as well as the translator from French until 1989 . Jeff Lisle translated from Italian and Spanish
Angoulême International Comics Festival
Angoulême International Comics Festival
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