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Gordon Somers
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It saddens me that so few European comics are translated into English and exported. Visits to the continent always make me green with envy when I see the wealth of albums they have there.
I remember being really jazzed when XIII was finally printed in English after having picked up a couple of the French albums on a visit to Paris.
Wish someone would reprint Jordi Bernet's Andrax in English. That is a nice comic.
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Jeremiah Hetherington
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The artwork is outstanding. Id love to read this.
Edited by Jeremiah Hetherington on 2008 April 17 at 1:32am
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Stéphane Garrelie
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Got the new Blake & Mortimer, Stéphane?
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Not yet. But Blake & Mortimer are faves of mine.
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Pedro Bouça
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Didier, I met Tarrin and writer Yann during my Paris stay. Great guys both! Their Spirou was very cool indeed.
They told me they intend to do another. Dupuis (Spirou series publisher, for those wondering) is resisting, but I'm sure it will accept sooner of later.
And have you seen the preview pages for the Spirou Yann is doing with Olivier Schwartz (originally planned for Yves Chaland)? They are brilliant! Here:
http://expressbd.com/crbst_107.html
Stéphane, The new book seems to have divided opinions in France, but I enjoyed it a lot. Of course, maybe I'm not as "protective" of the series as the people who grew up with it...
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Robert Kowalewski II
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Wish someone would reprint Jordi Bernet's Andrax in English. That is a nice comic.
Is this the same Bernet that's been doing the occasional Jonah Hex issue? If so,
their work is excellent!
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Pedro Bouça
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It's the same Bernet, but Andrax is a very early work, done for the german market, if I'm not mistaken.
It's been out of print pretty much everywhere for many years now, as far as I know.
At least one story got published on an Atlas/Seaboard comic, but the publisher gave up on comics soon afterward:
http://www.atlasarchives.com/comics/barbarians01.html
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Pedro Bouça
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For the interested, here are the best selling comics (excluding manga, which are counted separated) on french bookstores the past week:
http://bp3.blogger.com/_PGU1w8-i6yg/SAWq51cVfGI/AAAAAAAADPw/ m7p6bDZTIkE/s1600-h/podium200800413.jpg
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There is an US comic there, World of Warcraft, published on the States by Wildstorm and written by our friend Walt Simonson.
Blake and Mortimer tops not just that list, but french bookstore sales ALL genres confounded for the third week in a row!
For those who don't know the series, I'll explain. Two-fisted scientist Philip Mortimer and his friend, Intelligence officer Francis Blake, are 50s british adventurers who spend their time finding lost civilizations and protecting the Free World from all kinds of unexpected menaces, mostly coming from their archnemesis Olrik (ironically a caricature of series creator Edgar P. Jacobs himself!).
On this book, Mortimer seems to be suffering from memory troubles since its latest but decides to investigate an artifact found by a german scientist in Africa, which seems to hail from an unknown million-year old civilization! However, Olrik has also survived their latest bout and is coming after him.
Here you can see a trailer (yes, a trailer) from that album:
http://www.dargaud.com/front/albums/dossiers/blank.aspx?id=8 3
It's written by Lombard editor in chief Yves Sente and drawn by Angoulême prize winner André Juillard.
If anyone is curious to know about other books on that list, I can talk about them.
Edited by Pedro Bouça on 2008 April 18 at 4:48am
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Stéphane Garrelie
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Another cool page. And when i'll have the time & courage i'll translate the summary from the backcover for Brian & everybody.
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David Ferguson
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Thanks for sharing with us, Stéphane. Some exquisite art.
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Joakim Jahlmar
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Looks like a lot of fun. Makes me wish I'd actually picked up on French during those schoolyears when I took it. Maybe it'll eventually reach Sweden anyway, since we do seem to get at least some French/Belgian albums coming in (though I have to admit that I don't know very well what of the new stuff's been coming in in recent years).
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Stéphane Garrelie
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Back cover:
"Divine providence, the dispositions by which God leads his creation towards perfection.
Divine madness when, the night in Providence, werewolves spited by hell kill good people, who then organize themselves in militia to capture an indian whom they estimate responsible of all those diabolic things. The manhunt can begin as already the clergyman, in the secret of his church, begins a terrible double game.
The beautiful Cathy, always armed of her silver bullets revolver, continues to look for an old grimoire that could be at the origin of the satanic madness that progressively spreads over Providence...
If you loose your way in the forest near Providence, bless heavens to be alone, if not... run away"
Edited by Stéphane Garrelie on 2008 April 18 at 3:23pm
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Stéphane Garrelie
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This is the second volume of a 2 parts story, by the way, and it is 64 pages long (including a page of presentation with the title and a small drawing, + a page for a short preface by the writer/artist. So the story itself in this volume is 62 pages long).
Edited by Stéphane Garrelie on 2008 April 18 at 4:28pm
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