European Graphic Novels++

A classic “wimmelbild,” which is now an official flair here.

I thought this was a neat, sepia-like piece, what with it’s effective pen-like line shading, and a quasi-fairytale interaction of light and shadow. Could be a wimmelbilder, I reckon.

This first one could almost be a “wimmelbilder” piece, i.e. a variation on Where’s Waldo? (hmm, could be a good theme for a future post)

Feeling a bit better today, so figured I’d start on a little project I’ve been meaning to get to for a while, which is sharing some *wimmelbilder pieces. The word is German, which I understand to mean something like “hidden object pictures,” in which the pieces are very large (pixel-wise) and detailed, packed with figures and objects. Where’s Wally/Waldo* would be a famous example of these.

From what I’ve found, this piece keeps coming back to Theo Bouvier, a Parisian artist, and yet his typical space-exploration work looks nothing like this one, y’know?