European Graphic Novels++

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdULXFOWxlo

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-60691-BD-Chateau-des-Animaux.html

https://www.amazon.com/Lone-Sloane-Salammb%C3%B4-Philippe-Druillet/dp/6554482601

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-76623-BD-Bibliomule-de-Cordoue.html

Good gracious, is this a wonderful series.

I’m afraid I have no more info for this one, other than it appears to be a watercolor, either digital or physical. “Luchia-a” is the name of the file, with the title above being my own invention.

I found the three-tome series The Last Atlas ("Le dernier Atlas") to be ambitious, but uneven, mostly a powerhouse, thrilling page-turner, while in its last stretch plodding, with too many minor plots pursued, Pirates of the Caribbean 3-style. :P

See the Webcomix! thread for more of these and others.

Trondheim on the script! :D

Sylvain Chomet’s Les Triplettes de Belleville is easily one of the great accomplishments of movie animation, and something that one can watch on repeat, discovering new features with every viewing. Now, I’d shared it’s pop song breakthrough hit a week ago, but here I want to talk about the movie, as a whole:

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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?

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Yesterday, @blaze@piefed.zip posted a LEGO Mosaics primer to !lego@piefed.social, and it was there that I had the pleasure of being introduced to Pontiérr’s work. ‘Mosaic portraits’ are not a new thing of course, but Gerardo is taking these in interesting new directions:

These come from Sabbah’s 133pp "Ladies of Legend" GN. I found it both fun to read and surprisingly thought-provoking, as the author really digs in to the implications and modern interpretations of 21 female historical & mythical figures.

These are from V2 of the "The Golden Age":

This panel appears in T5 of the Dick Hérisson detective series by Didier Savard. TBH, I’ve had a copy in my BD folder for ages, and simply liked the image, which vaguely reminded me of the classic Red Rackham’s Treasure.

The writer is the venerable Jean-Pierre Dionnet, co-founder of Métal Hurlant. An earlier, Romanesque story of his was posted HERE. In the following sequence, we see a small establishing story to give us a better understanding of this god-like character, who will go on to challenge the up-and-coming Lilith, depicted on the cover further down:

I understand Bablet did this piece as sort of a love-letter to video games from his youth.

Balbuzar is an older kids book, in the popular ‘text and picture’ format. The story is quite the absurdist tall tale, in a certain classical tradition, but really nothing too remarkable to me. It’s moreso the completely over-the-top, hilarious imagery of Pillot that had me chortling in appreciation.

D’oof… I don’t think I’d gotten to Cabanes before. He’s of course the artist across any number of significant BD, but… well, I just liked these four little wordless ones I’d collected across the years:

Madeleine Riffaud (1924-2024) was a French Resistance fighter, poet, journalist and war correspondent. After active resistance to the German occupation of France during WWII, she reported for the communist newspaper “L’Humanité” and other left-wing publications on the Algerian War (during which she survived an assassination attempt) and on the French & American wars in Vietnam. Her reporting on Vietnam was informed by four years she spent in the North in the early 1950s, and in the 1960s by the connections she developed in the South with the Viet Cong. –WP

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First panel reads: "Come back, Jeremy : it’s too dangerous!!!"

Oof, it’s been a while since I read the Final Incal series, but I recently discovered that there was in fact a bit of difficulty, heartbreak and drama involved with this one. At least, in terms of how Jean Giraud ("Moebius") had to bow out after doing only the first book of this iconic, final Incal series.

Here’s our previous taste of ‘Coudray / Barnaby,’ which included seven strips: https://piefed.social/post/742436

One of the many, fun little dream/nightmare sequences from the "Monsieur Jean" series.

Sometime back I decided to read this series of six tomes rather leisurely, so as to hopefully savor it a bit more fully. Well, as of today I just finished T2, and boy… was it worth the wait. oO

So, not exactly a red-letter day.

This is all new to me, but these three seen to come from "The Silent Kingdoms".

I’m always looking around for interesting material, especially by creators I’m unfamiliar with, also pulling recommendations from others who share and/or talk about BD & general comics content. One such example would be Seth Hahne, a fellow reviewer and creator who also teaches university courses on comics. (see new link to his site on the sidebar there)

Concept art for Verne on Vacation, an animated pilot (Cartoon Network, 2009) that recently got picked up as a series (or is it a film?). HERE’s a 3min sample. (always interesting to see completely different genres hybridize like that!)

Welp, here’s lookin’ at you, kid. It’s my 2nd attempt to do a scheduled post, and hopefully it works this time. There’s also several points of interest, here:

To nobody’s surprise (haha), I’ve got various notes on this one:

Pretty wild panel I thought worth sharing! And from publisher Humanoids page: