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Post by maxhuffman on Feb 22, 2023 9:07:13 GMT
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Post by maxhuffman on Mar 10, 2023 1:52:31 GMT
over on patreon i posted a big long roundup with lots of pictures of all the comics i bought in europe. if that sounds remotely interesting, here it is... subscribe and unsubscribe before it charges ya, i don't mind, it's comix baby
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Post by bluebed on Mar 14, 2023 20:08:39 GMT
I recently came from Angouleme, brought back among other things the last Blutch book, and it's crazytown. I have so much of his stuff, but this feels like a culmination of everything he's been obsessing about.  I love all the subtle stylistic variations he's doing here--lots of incongruous elements working together so well (characters with clashing proportions, mix of stiffness and fluidity, cartooniness and realism), wild compositions and textures, lots of beautifully controlled chaos. Can't read it since I don't know French and his lettering is too wild for the phone translator, but I heard the story is great too.  He's a bit like Tim Hensley, somewhat, in that his work is very much about cartooning itself. Here's someone on the internet drawing parallels with Tintin but there's clearly so much more reference that I can't even begin to place.  There's also an extra-fancy b&w edition with sketches and process bits:  Watched him draw a dedicace, and it's honestly comforting to see how slow and deliberate he is, and how much thought and work goes into the effortless-looking final thing.  Last year got more things, one of the books that I kept returning to was Citeville/Citeruine by Jerome Dubois. It's a dark, satirical collection of slightly Ballardian stories set in the same place. Very nice cartooning, especially like the way he abstracts faces, a bit like Ruppert/Mulot but with more variety. Also, the book has a companion volume in which he redrew every page in some near future after the collapse of the city, with all the same compositions and no characters/no life. Fun concept, quite haunting when you look at them side by side.   Also got a lot of things from Misma--everything they put out is great, and the production/design is really outstanding. But the book I loved the most was www.misma.fr/produit/detective-kahn/Detective Kahn--read it with the phone translator (and the previous one too, with some difficulty), and can confirm it's quite readable and very funny. I think it's meant for children, but I loved it a great deal, which probably says something about my mental age. Very weird and silly, and the runny pen line is such a nice touch. Really captures that feeling of making things up on paper as a child.  |
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