#franco-belgian comics

[jihef03]

Something something in every universe

[rijinks]

Happy 88th Birthday to my childhood hero Spirou!! (style inspired by Machine Qui Rêve)

[igobymanynamesxhs]

Spirou

[strato-viper-raven-blog]

Man, I love reading about Franco-Belgian comic creators on the Lambiek Comiclopedia. But when they said that with Les Tuniques Bleues that Blutch and Chesterfield 'openly despise each other but are always assigned to the same misson' I wonder if they may have misunderstood their relationship in that they may come to blows and bicker but they have ultmatley have each others back and can't admit they like each other.

[animatejournal]

Tous à l'Ouest: Une Aventure de Lucky Luke Director: Olivier Jean-Marie Studio: Xilam | France, 2007

[iukasylvie]

As a Japanese person who is used to reading manga, I find comics outside Japan to be so different beyond size, color, reading direction, and language that I wish there was a book explaining comics of various kinds and how to approach them. For example, I have read The Witch Boy by Molly Ostertag, Magical Boy by The Kao, Hound by Paul J. Bolger and Barry Devlin, An Táin by Colmán Ó Raghallaigh, and the excerpts of Franco-Belgian comics in the guide Invitation au monde de la Bande Dessinée (はじめての人のためのバンド・デシネ徹底ガイド, 2013).

Neither The Witch Boy nor Hound were divided by chapter to my surprise—especially Hound since it was first released in three volumes. Dialogue in Franco-Belgian comics are lengthy compared to what I see in manga, which the academic book Les échanges culturels entre Manga et Bande dessinée : Historie, Adaptation et Création (日仏マンガの交流 ヒストリー・アダプテーション・クリエーション, 2015) has commented on.

Hound was created by at least two Irish people and edited by one British person (Hugh Welchman) but I find this graphic novel to be similar to a certain kind of Franco-Belgian comics like the works of Jean "Mœbius" Giraud. These comics have impressive art and imagery—and I love how Hound portrays Cú Cullan's berserk state and uses dashes of red in an otherwise black and white setting—but they give me little or no idea about what's going on unlike, say, Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa. I have heard of the international popularity of manga—in France in particular—but I wonder why people outside Japan embrace manga so much when it's not like comics produced in their countries.

Thoughts?

[morte-a-elle-meme]

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