Barron Storey's Paper Planes
While waiting for Dan Mazur's and Alexander Danner's Comics A Global History, 1968 To the Present - Coda: What Is an Artist? (Part Two) I give you one (an artist that is): Barron Storey, ladies and...
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Dan Mazur's and Alexander Danner's Comics A Global History, 1968 To the...
"Aristophane was a better artist than Jack Kirby, obviously. Joost Swarte is better than Hergé."Domingos IsabelinhoIf you read part one of this post you know what it's about. So, here we go...
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Misterix # 715
I received a few Argentinian mags on the mail today, Misterix # 715 among them, so, and because Mahendra asked, I'll post what's more interesting in it. (Meanwhile I'm reading Aristophane's Conte...
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Arturo del Castillo
Misterix # 715 was published in 1962. At that time Arturo del Castillo was already working for Fleetway Publications in the UK. He co-adapted, namely, Alexandre Dumas' musketeers novels to comics as we...
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A Comparison
Remember when I said below that craft is not enough to produce great art, but a world vision isn't enough either?...Robb Armstrong, "Jump Start," Sunday comic strip, January 17, 1993 [originally...
View ArticleEDMOND, un portrait de Baudoin
EDMOND, un portrait de Baudoin (trailer) from Kaleo films on Vimeo.Pour justifier son refus de lui accorder un prix prestigieux, un éditeur lui confia un jour: "Si vous aviez été récompensé, cela...
View ArticleEDMOND, un portrait de Baudoin - Coda
If you read the quote below you will understand perfectly why the comics milieu (comics publishers especially) is my enemy.I also wonder why the State (and I mean every State) spends so much money...
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Ernie Pike
Maybe I shouldn't post a whole story by the great Héctor, but I'm doing it just the same because I don't believe that this story will ever be republished (Hugo Pratt didn't drew it!, you see?!...)....
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IL BATELLO BRILLO (con Manuele Fior, Stefano Ricci & Eddy Vaccaro) from BilBOlbul on Vimeo.
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Ernie Pike - Coda # 1
If you ask any European comics reader about "Ernie Pike" s/he will tell you that Ernie Pike is a comic by Hugo Pratt. Some, but not many, will tell you that "Ernie Pike" is a comic by Hugo Pratt,...
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Ernie Pike - Coda # 2
Enrique Cristóbal (a), Jorge Oesterheld (as Jorge Mora - w), "Ernie Pike: Operación Fritz," [Operation Fritz] Hora Cero Extra! # 4, October 1958.Oscar Estévez (a), Héctor Germán Oesterheld (w), "Ernie...
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Ernie Pike - Coda # 3
Martínez (a), Héctor Germán Oesterheld (w), "Ernie Pike,"Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal # 110, October 7, 1959.Julio César Medrano (a), Jorge Oesterheld (as Jorge Mora - w), "Ernie Pike: Miedo" [fear],...
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Ernie Pike - Coda # 4
Leandro Sesarego (a), Héctor Germán Oesterheld (w), "Ernie Pike,"Hora Cero Suplemento Semanal # 102, August 5, 1959.Francisco Solano López (a), Héctor Germán Oesterheld (w), "Del cuaderno rojo de Ernie...
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Ernie Pike: Coda # 5
The next time you say that "Ernie Pike" is a series by Hugo Pratt, please think twice! Don't follow Thierry Taittinger's example in Beaux Arts magazine hors série (Les secrets des chefs-d'oeuvre de la...
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Another Hugo Pratt Li... Er... Mystification or Ernie Pike - Coda # 6
It's a dead horse at The Crib by now, I know, and I should shut up and be done with it already. But... sigh!... I can't avoid the topic because I keep stumbling across how a scumbag Hugo Pratt was....
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I Miss the 1990s
Yeah, I do! Below is a cover of a Joe Matt's Peepshow comic showing the Toronto trio: Matt, Chester Brown and Seth. Even if it was published in 2002 it reminds me of the 1990s when everything was new...
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Adieu Monsieur Wolinski
Georges Wolinnki in 2011 (photo by Jean-Frédéric).The Crib is in mourning again. As you all know three Islamic fundamentalists killed twelve people in an attack on Charlie heddo's office In Paris....
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A Maneira Como a Agência Portuguesa de Revistas Publicou Banda Desenhada...
No dia 24 de Outubro de 2014 coloquei algumas páginas da revista Misterix # 715 neste blogue. Escandalizei-me, na altura, com a maneira como as edições Colihue, anos depois, dividiram uma vinheta da...
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Another Hugo Pratt Li... Er... Mystification or Ernie Pike - Coda # 6 - A...
I was unfair to Hugo Pratt this time, methinks...Let's look at those images again:There are two ways of reading the prep drawing above: 1) the soldiers are returning to the rear from the battlefield...
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