THAT COMIC SMELL: European Comics

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buen día! bonne journée! Schönen Tag! And a good day to you! Welcome to our all European comics special. We last did one of these before the mics were even turned on. Literally the meeting before we decided to do a podcast so this is a very special one for us. You will hear us figure out how long it’s been that we have been meeting up (roughly) to do these. We also talk about a whole host of incredible European titles from all over. Of course there is also a fair bit of rambling. We really hope you enjoy.

This and all the usual comics chat on the only comics podcast to go from Paris to Berlin but every disco we went in our hearts weren’t quite pumping for love…

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13 Rue Del Percebe (Francisco Ibañez)
Asterix & The Sassenachs (René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo)
Blacksad (Juan Díaz Canales, Juanjo Guarnido)
Booth (C.C.Colbert, Tanitoc, Hilary Sycamore)
Corto Maltese [Magazine] (Various)
Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun (Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Zosia Dzierzawska)
Exterminator (Enki Bilal)
Groo vs Conan (Sergio Aragonés, Thomas Yeates)
Harum Scarum (Lewis Trondheim)
Illegal (Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, Giovanni Rigano)
It Was The War of the Trenches (Jacques Tardi)
Iznogoud's Nightmares (René Goscinny, Jean Tabary)
Logicomix (Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, Annie Di Donna)
Mortadelo Y Filemon (Francisco Ibañez)
Novelty (Mohar Kalra)
Il Punitore (Belter of a Punisher story)
Revelations (Max Bertolini)
Speciale Batman [Magazine] (Various)
STORM CLOUDS, GHOST BEACH, OPEN HEART (Ben Mitchell)
The Story of Sex: From Apes to Robots (Philippe Brenot, Laetitia Coryn)
Super Lopez (Jan)
El Tesoro Del Cisne Negro (Paco Roca, Guillermo Corral)
Thorgal (Jean Van Hamme, Grzegorz Rosiński)
Valerian (Pierre Christin, Jean-Claude Mézières)
Vampire Loves (Joann Sfar)
Zonzo (Joan Cornella)"

COMICS STAMPEDE 7

Here’s a beautiful French set from 1988. Each stamp features a drawing from a grand prize winner at Angoulême between 1976 and 1987. Click for larger view – it’s worth it!

JE VEUX LIRE BANDE DESSINEE.

I’ve been aware, you may have too, that in France comics have a bigger place in culture than in Britain. I’ve also seen that there are extremely attractive books which are never translated. I've just acquired three French comics, or bande dessinee. They are "La Trilogie Nikopol" by Enki Bilal.

I chose this as it was recommended to me and I saw some prints from it at a museum. I wrote about this here. Next is "Metropolis" by Christophe Girard.

I chose this as Metropolis is one of my favourite movies. Then I have "La Piscine de Micheville" by Baru.

I chose this as I liked this artist’s style. My plan is to sit with a French/English dictionary and a grammar book and painfully slowly pick my way through these books learning as I go. I started tonight on Bilal and am enjoying the torturous process already. Bonne lecture!

SCIENCE MUSEUM

I had a visit to the Science Museum in London last week.

Very interesting place to see, but then what a bonus: a Frank Hampson wall!

Four original pages of Dan Dare. They were all fantastic.

And then later on, more: an Enki Bilal wall.

Eight pages from La Femme Piege.

In the space exploration area, they have a display based on Amazing Stories magazine.

They currently have an exhibition with artwork by Suzanne Treister called Hexen 2.0. I can see it making a good underground comic.

The shop had a couple of nice comic books; Robot City by Paul Collicutt and Robot by Andrzej Klimowski and Danusia Schejbal.


There was even a display on a book called The 1950s Kitchen by Kathryn Perry that was open at a page with this four panel strip. Always interesting to see comics used in advertising.

So go along to check all this stuff out. Even without the comic bonuses, it’s a great museum. Just look at the layout of Making the Modern World hall. Really impressive.