Euro comic thread - European comics
- Thread starter mickey339
- Start date
-
Sustained Denial of Service attacks. Paid for botnet. Service will continue to be disrupted until I can contact other providers and arrange a fix.
- Highlight
- #2
Adventures of Tintin is the reason why I appreciate European comics a whole lot more than the American ones.
my grandma has a complete set of the german main duck comic. she started buying it to read to my uncle and never stopped buying them.
i have about 20 of them at home and exchange them everytime i go to visit...
I have alot of none duck european comics. still working on my older french comic collection. im done with blueberry and valerian atleast. buying up Pilote magazines when they hit ebay for a good price just to preserve them...
new european comics are still good.
i have about 20 of them at home and exchange them everytime i go to visit...
I have alot of none duck european comics. still working on my older french comic collection. im done with blueberry and valerian atleast. buying up Pilote magazines when they hit ebay for a good price just to preserve them...
new european comics are still good.
I like Tintin and Asterix but generally speaking I'm not a fan of the BD scene.
I loved Asterix growing up. I always wanted to go to the theme park in France.
mort and phil are cool...
Has anyone checked out Mutafukaz yet?
You've probably heard of the movie, MFKZ.
You've probably heard of the movie, MFKZ.
That would be fun.
Personally, I've always wanted to see a modern Tintin adventure, transplanting the character and his knack for getting into trouble from the 1970s (when Tintin last appeared) to the present day. Frankly, you wouldn't have to change too much about the character, since he always kind of acted like a younger version of Jason Bourne (complete with uncanny proficiency at firearms and melee combat) to begin with.
So how does 2000 A.D fare compared to other European Comics?
Last edited:
Haven't read a lot, only some Judge Dredd. Can be dated at times.
Also for BD fans Moebius is a very interesting case. Far more adventurous than Herge.
Homegrown Homophobia
kiwifarms.net
I love Franco-Belgian comics. There's a certain European sensibility to sex you get in the adult oriented ones you don't find at all in capeshit.
Have the Diabolik comics ever been translated into English?
Have the Diabolik comics ever been translated into English?
Judge Dredd is (unintentionally) hilarious. I think the effect of reading it for Americans must be like being Russian and watching Red Heat.
Except for his overpowering fascination with dunce caps.
A sort of embryonic Vladimir Harkonnen-style libertine nihilism, if you will.
I have a half meter stack of those at home.
Not counting the book collections.
Including the one I got signed by Rosa.
They are certainly something else.
Great series btw. Haven't read it in years though.
A similar series I like much better would be Blake and Mortimer.
Both series are drawn in Ligne Clarie, with fantastically smooth drawings of machines and are products of the early 20th century European colonial mindset but B&M does it far better in my opinion.
The humans are less cartoonish, the series is more serious and the plots are grander and more epic.
Also
B&M portrays natives far better in my opinion.
Tintin makes natives over the world dimwits who receive little sympathy while B&M portrays them as clearly subservient but helpful and loyal.
Tintin makes natives over the world dimwits who receive little sympathy while B&M portrays them as clearly subservient but helpful and loyal.
B&M have been revived by other authors btw. Does anyone know about their quality? I picked a single album up and immediately got stuck due to its verbosity.
Don't like him that much. His drawings are cool but his stories a bit too alternative for me.
Last edited:
I've always found it a little distracting that every attractive young woman in Asterix, Spirou and similar-looking titles always seems to have those Brigitte Bardot fish-lips (apparently the result of the actress sucking her thumb until age 25, causing her front teeth to be pulled outward).
Sounds worth looking into. Two other titles that caught my interest were Bob Morane (on the basis of the animated series), and Dan Cooper (due to the sheer novelty value of the stories revolving around the adventures of a Royal Canadian Air Force fighter jockey). I don't think either has been translated into English, though, and my school-boy French is pretty rusty.
Same.
Last edited:
I'll admit, Moebius is a hard pill to swallow. Very Gallic in an insistance of BD as the 'ninth art'. Interesting in seeing his connection to other French artists and publications like Metal hurlant.I have a half meter stack of those at home.
Not counting the book collections.
Including the one I got signed by Rosa.
They are certainly something else.
View attachment 1792536
Great series btw. Haven't read it in years though.
A similar series I like much better would be Blake and Mortimer.
Both series are drawn in Ligne Clarie, with fantastically smooth drawings of machines and are products of the early 20th century European colonial mindset but B&M does it far better in my opinion.
The humans are less cartoonish, the series is more serious and the plots are grander and more epic.
AlsoB&M portrays natives far better in my opinion.
Tintin makes natives over the world dimwits who receive little sympathy while B&M portrays them as clearly subservient but helpful and loyal.
B&M have been revived by other authors btw. Does anyone know about their quality? I picked a single album up and immediately got stuck due to its verbosity.
Don't like him that much. His drawings are cool but his stories a bit too alternative for me.
Herge is still my go-to for comfort food and nostalgia. Asterix I've found is a more provincial comic that doesn't travel as well outside the Francophone world as Tintin.
He was apparently the designer of the Nostromo's space-suits for Alien (and for the 1987 Masters of the Universe movie, of all things), which I suppose explains why they look so oddly ornate and out-of-place against the Ron Cobb-designed spaceship or in comparison with the more low-key, NASA-style work-clothes worn by the cast for interior photography.
You may very well be right about that, but even before I was old enough to read I still found Albert Uderzo's artwork extremely funny, and I think almost every library in Canada has at least a half dozen well-worn Asterix and Tintin volumes.
iirc Moebius did a lot of design work for Tron, tooHe was apparently the designer of the Nostromo's space-suits for Alien (and for the 1987 Masters of the Universe movie, of all things), which I suppose explains why they look so oddly ornate and out-of-place against the Ron Cobb-designed spaceship or in comparison with the more low-key, NASA-style work-clothes worn by the cast for interior photography.
I think every library in Canada has at least a half dozen Asterix and Tintin volumes. Even before I was old enough to read I still found Albert Uderzo's artwork extremely funny.
I can see that.
Dude even bears the very French name of "Dumont" (for comparison, the other programs get names like Tron, Yori, Sark, CLU, etc).
The abstract nature of the digital world meshed with Giraud's rather abstract sense of design rather well, I think.
Similar threads
totally can cut vaccums yo
