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[Super-Chevy454]

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.

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It would be cool to see Dan Cooper translated in English like another Franco-Belgian comic showing a similar premise with another pilot, Buck Danny.

https://www.cinebook.co.uk/buck-danny-c-143_362_158.html

 

[Stoneheart]

I have a half meter stack of those at home.

im pretty sure you mean a different one, because half a meter is like 30 books or so. thats barely one of the backcovers.

Don't like him that much. His drawings are cool but his stories a bit too alternative for me.

lt Blueberry has pretty normal western stories.

 

[Saxxon]

Nice, this thread is for me. Lately a have been reading Italian duck comics (paperinik specially) and the Spanish version of Metal Hurlant which I must say has better selection of stories than Heavy Metal ever had.

Edit: Thanks to the kiwis that remind me that I still need to finish reading Blueberry, I think I let it right on the last volume.

 

[Mister Qwerty]

I remember reading Asterix in Switzerland as a little kid and having nightmares about the cheese fondue scenes.

Spoiler: Nightmare fuel for kids

I couldn’t read at the time and thought those people were being devoured alive.

 

[Cyril Sneer]

It would be cool to see Dan Cooper translated in English like another Franco-Belgian comic showing a similar premise with another pilot, Buck Danny.

https://www.cinebook.co.uk/buck-danny-c-143_362_158.html

My God, it's like looking at an alternate-universe version of American pop-culture where the 1960s never happened, and it's glorious.

I remember reading Asterix in Switzerland as a little kid and having nightmares about the cheese fondue scenes.

Spoiler: Nightmare fuel for kids

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I couldn’t read at the time and thought those people were being devoured alive.

I dunno if I thought that the orgy-goers were actually being literally consumed, but I do have a very strong memory of paging through Asterix in Switzerland in the back seat of the car, aged six, when my family was returning from a visit to the grandparents and being pretty disturbed by the imagery of the cheese gradually engulfing the revelers (which, I guess, is an appropriate reaction to a depiction of an orgy, even a G-rated one, so mission accomplished, Monsieur Uderzo).

 

[The Token Ethnic]

I saw the 1973 movie Baba Yaga and found out about Guido Crepax and his Valentina comics. I would track down imports when I could. His adaptations of the Story of O., Justine and Venus in Furs were way easier to find. I love his style.

 

[millais]

It would be cool to see Dan Cooper translated in English like another Franco-Belgian comic showing a similar premise with another pilot, Buck Danny.

https://www.cinebook.co.uk/buck-danny-c-143_362_158.html

That one always weirded me out a little how it's been running practically unbroken for so long they have to keep retconning the characters' ages and background so that they can still be flying the latest aircraft in whatever modern day conflict.

 

[mickey339]

im pretty sure you mean a different one, because half a meter is like 30 books or so. thats barely one of the backcovers.




lt Blueberry has pretty normal western stories.

I meant the magazines, not the A5 books.
I did used to have a little stack of those too.

I have seen Blueberry but never read it. Maybe I should.

 

[Cyril Sneer]

That one always weirded me out a little how it's been running practically unbroken for so long they have to keep retconning the characters' ages and background so that they can still be flying the latest aircraft in whatever modern day conflict.

Which doesn't seem odd to me at all since I've mostly grown up with American comics where that sort of thing is almost taken for granted for whatever reason (one of the more pertinent examples might be G.I. Joe, which has been running almost uninterrupted since 1982 under several different authors and publishers, and so the main characters, who started out as Vietnam veterans, get their backstories periodically refreshed so that the war that they came back from was whichever one America had fought most recently).

 

[Stoneheart]

I meant the magazines, not the A5 books.
I did used to have a little stack of those too.

the A5 books are awesome. and you can get them dirt cheap used because the print run is so massive.

I have seen Blueberry but never read it. Maybe I should.

the art is awesome and the stories are well written western stories, not high art but fine.

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

Where my Corto Maltese homies at?

 

[Begemot]

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My God, it's like looking at an alternate-universe version of American pop-culture where the 1960s never happened, and it's glorious.


I dunno if I thought that the orgy-goers were actually being literally consumed, but I do have a very strong memory of paging through Asterix in Switzerland in the back seat of the car, aged six, when my family was returning from a visit to the grandparents and being pretty disturbed by the imagery of the cheese gradually engulfing the revelers (which, I guess, is an appropriate reaction to a depiction of an orgy, even a G-rated one, so mission accomplished, Monsieur Uderzo).

Will have to check Buck Danny out, lads.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

That one always weirded me out a little how it's been running practically unbroken for so long they have to keep retconning the characters' ages and background so that they can still be flying the latest aircraft in whatever modern day conflict.

Buck Danny wasn't the only one where the characters was retconned. There's some others Franco-Belgian comics where the characters don't age like Ric Hocket, a journalist and Michel Vaillant, a race car driver.

 

[The Grognard]

Where my Corto Maltese homies at?
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Right here. Ballad of the Salt Sea is an excellent graphic novel.

 

[Miller]

They are certainly something else.


Great series btw. Haven't read it in years though.

You should also check Gaston Lagaffe, it's about a clumsy, lazy employee of the Journal de Spirou (sometimes there's a cameo of Spirou).
Also published by Dupuis, there's that cool bande-dessinée called Natacha, Hôtesse de l'Air. I don't know if it's available in english though. It's about the adventures of a flight attendant, it's fun and there's a bit of fanservice.

 

[Stoneheart]

my dune book wasnt in the mail today, im realy itching to read it, but splitter is slow as always to ship it.

 

[Begemot]

Right here. Ballad of the Salt Sea is an excellent graphic novel.

I just started reading this, actually. It looks like Ligne Claire but with a mixture of scuzziness and haziness that I find interesting.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

You should also check Gaston Lagaffe, it's about a clumsy, lazy employee of the Journal de Spirou (sometimes there's a cameo of Spirou).
Also published by Dupuis, there's that cool bande-dessinée called Natacha, Hôtesse de l'Air. I don't know if it's available in english though. It's about the adventures of a flight attendant, it's fun and there's a bit of fanservice.

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+1, I agree about Natacha. Gaston Lagaffe is translated in English under the name Gomer Goof. https://www.cinebook.co.uk/gomer-goof-c-141_145_329.html

 

[Foltest]

Where my Corto Maltese homies at?
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Corto Maltese is great. I remember there was an animation version of it on Canal Plus when I was a kid. Good shit.
Also, Thorgal is amazing.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Another Euro comic who could desserve a comeback in Bruno Brazil. It was originally drawed by William Vance who drawed XIII and that series got revived with a team of new authors.