ILC favourite Dungeon is one of the best comics ever - hearty recommend. Can it be as good as I remember though?
Infinity 8, from one of the same writers, Lewis Trondheim, has been fun but the further volumes have diminishing returns (for reasons that will be very apparent when you know the plot).
I was really impressed with Maggie Garrison, another Trondheim joint, that’s a two-and-done thriller series set in southeast England with a really memorable hero.
Big fan of Leo’s nonsense sci fi series Aldebaran, which also goes off the rails a bit
Kerascoët‘s Miss Don’t Touch Me is fun but doesn’t really live up to its promise - notice a trend here? - it the first volume is still worth reading. Satania, by the same artist, is impressive but Not My Thing.
These are quite mainstream answers I guess, but it’s all got! The lack of female BD writers kinda sucks
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 17 June 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
Which is to say, I’d love some recommendations in that arena...
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 17 June 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
These are great suggestions, though unfortunately the library doesn't seem to have most of these books. I might have to try another library. I might buy The Great Outdoors by Cahterine Meurisse.
Re Leo/Aldebaran - I had bought a volume of this (I think actually from reading ILC), but it seems like it was halfway through the story. Is there a good place to start here?
NYRB Graphic Novels has a few comics by French women artists. I haven't read them yet, but they look great.
PRETENDING IS LYINGby Dominique Goblet, translated from the French by Sophie Yanow
MITCHUMby Blutch, translated from the French by Matt Madden
THE TENDERNESS OF STONESby Marion Fayolle, translated from the French by Geoffrey Brock
― johnasdf, Thursday, 17 June 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link
There's multiple volumes with different titles: Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, Antares and Return to Aldebaran (i think), each of which are a few volumes each. There's a side series too, The Survivors. The first two sets, Aldebaran and Betelgeuse iirc, are the best, and then it's the usual comics game of "well, it's not as good as it used to be, but i want to see what happens".
I think quite a few of the titles frequently pop up as sales on Comixology.
I'd probably rec Maggie Garrison the most out of the ones I mentioned.
Thanks for the recommendations!
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 17 June 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
The lack of female BD writers kinda sucks
Think this must be a function of what's been translated because anecdotally I think the current BD scene has more prominent women than the US comics scene (comparsions with Japan more difficult due to boy's comics and girl's comics still being an official thing there). Penelope Bagieu is probably the biggest BD breakout star of recent years (I've not read her).
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 18 June 2021 10:55 (two years ago) link
speaking of Dungeon, 5 of the volumes (Twilight 2-3-4, Monsters 5-6) are on sale here for 2.99 each (plus also a Lil Santa by Trondheim, and a bunch of other stuff by other people too) https://www.nbmpub.com/home/sale.html
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Friday, 18 June 2021 20:16 (two years ago) link
First issue of my Spirou subscription arrived!
A lot of it is done in a style that reminds me of, like, Phineas & Ferb and other modernish animation, which I'm not a fan of. There's also an official liscensed minions comic strip!
Good stuff from old hands, though: Émile Bravo is doing a Spirou Elseworlds where he's in occupied Belgium, the chapter in this issue sees him arrested by the Gestapo (!), done in a beautiful classic ligne claire style. Joann Sfar is doing some totally deranged thing that'll prob take me many chapters to start to understand: in this one a rock alien is dueting with Carla Bruni on Sarkozy's yacht, then tells her he must leave, opens up a vortex and lands in the White House, where François Hollande is waiting for him. Hollande then explains to the rock alien that Trump isn't in because after US presidents leave office they live in ratty motels, with panels showing Trump, Obama and Clinton in this situation. It then cuts to the attack on the Capitol.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 16 July 2021 12:44 (two years ago) link
Those Bravo Spirou books are all really good
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 16 July 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
I read the first when I was in a phase of trying to follow along with the Spirou Par... series, didn't know he'd kept at them!
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 17 July 2021 11:47 (two years ago) link