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These come from the sixth volume Le Noyé à deux têtes (the "Two-Headed Drowned Man," I believe). The series is by Jacques Tardi, as collected by Casterman. It ran from the ~70's to the 2000's.

I haven't read too much of this series myself, but really liked the color scheme, panel flow, and overall action/noirish aspects of these two pages.

Tardi is one of the most important, versatile and influential French comic artists of all time. He invented an influential variation of Hergé's "Ligne Claire," but is first and foremost hailed as one of the masters of adult comics.

Recurring themes in his productive oeuvre are the early 20th century - particularly World War I -, steampunk, detective stories, and the underworld of the city. His signature series 'Les Extraordinaires Aventures d'Adèle Blanc-Sec' follows a feisty female private investigator in 1910-20s Paris. --Lambiek

Sisters Jeanne & Cécile appeared in Jean-Pierre Gibrat's Le Vol du Courbeau ("The Raven's Flight") & Le Sursis ("The Reprieve"), respectively.

These two connected series, each comprised of two volumes, are some of my most cherished graphic novels of all, representing just about the purest form of "BD" in my mind, being both whimsical and fraught with tension... delights & dangers all around. They're both set during WWII, and focus almost exclusively on the civilian side of things. Here's a brief intro to both characters:

Jeanne (the gal pictured above) is sitting in a police cell, denounced by unknown parties as a French resistance-fighter, when a smooth-talking scoundrel and petty thief is added to the cell. Her fate looks terribly uncertain; that is to say-- likely headed for humiliation, rape and abuse. But then, she and her new 'friend' manage to escape, and from then on are on the run, sharing a bunch of minor & major adventures along the way. The series also features one of the greatest 'twist reveals' I've ever seen. Sweetness becomes pain and vice-versa, and as a reader I'm left totally wanting more story, please.

Now Cécile... dear Cécile-- she still lives in the sisters' home village, helping to run a small café. A local friend of hers ("Julien") has been declared dead due to war events, but after the village goes through their grieving & a funeral, it turns out that he's in fact still alive, and has returned to the village! (albeit hiding at his aunt's place)

The duo reconnect stealthily with Julien's aunt's help, and things seem to reach a sort of normalcy. Cécile et Julien become easy lovers after some difficulties, but then the local collaborators pry in to affairs, and now everything's all topsy-turvy. The series finishes up with another incredible, tragic twist-ending, and note: this series (Le Sursis) was the original.

Remarkably, these two masterpiece series were Gibrat's very first foray in to being sole author(!) In fact I'm quite sure they'd make for some superb movie scripts.

Oolala, I really liked this cool topic from our [~big brother/~sister] sub, r/bandesessinee, so I've done a small tribute, listing all titles in order, filling in [settings] and (creators), and adding clickable samplers... all presented by Super-Grover!

Please enjoy. ^^

Credits: u/ILEAATD and the responders for the suggestions, and Alex Ross for the lovely art.

Aire Libre : Le voyage en Italie [Vietnam, other] (Cosey)
Brelan de dames [?] (Dufaux, Vernal)
By the Numbers [French Indochina] (Laurent Rullier)
Chinaman [China, hah] (Taduc & Le Tendre)
Delisle's Burma, Pyongyang & Shenzen [respective] (Guy Delisle)
Dieter Lumpen [East Asia, various] (Zentner & Pellejero)
Hibakusha [Japan] (Barboni & Cinna)
Innommables, Les [China, Hong Kong] (Yann & Conrad)
Japan As Viewed by 17 Creators [Japan, hah] (various)
Pema Ling [Tibet] (George Bess)
Saigon-Hanoi [Vietnam] (Cosey)
Tengu carré, Le [Japan] (David B)
Toppi's Library, volume six [Japan] (Toppi)
Under Two Suns, from Broussaille #4 [Japan & Africa] (Frank Pé)
Voyages d'He Pao, Les [Vietnam, other] (Vinh)
Yoko Tsuno [Japan] (Roger Leloup)
White Lama, The [Tibet, other] (Bess & Jodorowsky)
White Tigress, The [China, Hong Kong] (Wilbur & Conrad)

Corrections and additions welcome! 🙏

Returning from the newspaper late at night, Phil Perfect had the habit of strolling around the outskirts of the "Royal Palace."

Well, I just kinda liked the arrangement and energy of this piece,
and bonus pts for being set in winter.

Serge Clerc is a creator I don't believe we've gotten to meet yet on this sub. Artistically, he seems to share much in common with Yves Chaland, yet there are of course notable differences.

IMO Phil Perfect the detective isn't all that noteworthy of a character (Clerc quickly moved on from him), but for sure, one day we'll need a good Clerc breakdown, a pretty versatile, rather ingenious creator as he was.

As an Elvis fan and singer this one hurt, but it was just too funny not to share. 😅

Pieter De Poortere is a Belgian comic artist, children's book illustrator, graphic artist and animator, most famous for his internationally succesful pantomime comic "Boerke," about the mishaps of a generally unlucky moustached farmer. The series combines an innocent-looking graphic style with pitch black comedy. De Poortere is also known for his large crowd paintings. He is part of the new wave of the Flemish humorists, together with Kim Duchateau (see the EGN+ index for samples of Esther Verkest), Jeroom, Bart Schoofs and Nix. --Lambiek, with Johnny's edits

What's also nice is that his comics are largely wordless, so the original Dutch / Flemish collections are usually fine no matter the reader's native tongue(s).

Lots more de Poortere info and comics samples here:
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/de-poortere-pieter.htm

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/8378985

Posy Simmonds makes history as first Brit to win coveted comics award

José is from Spain, and what first blew me out of the water was his ingenious, hugely inventive, isometric, stream-of-consciousness book, Adventures of a Salaryman. Here's the French title & cover:

It's about a Japanese "salaryman" ('career office worker,' essentially) simply trying to make his way home after a long day pointlessly wasting overtime hours in order to mildly impress his bosses (i.e. the usual salaryman thing).

Basically-- he just wants to get home and go to sleep, and is certainly not looking forward to anything new and/or unexpected. This dude, even if he wanted sex from his wife? That almost certainly wasn't going to fly. So he really, really just wants to throw down his head upon yon pillow(!)

Unfortunately (or fortunately?) absolutely everything unexpected, weird & wild happens to him from that point on, with flippin' bells hangin' off bells, a bit of an ol' Brit expression? :P

Anyway-- SAMPLES

TBH? I don't know that much about his other work.
Still, from what I do understand, this matey has his finger in many pies, such as animation, movies, cartoons, and et cet.

So then, here's some samples I liked in particular:

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.mindoki.com/post/328958

Federation seems to be back on the menu with 0.19.2 !

Art and Science-Fiction (1986)

Moebius drew this image to illustrate an article by Ray Bradbury about Art and Science-Fiction, written for The Universe, a book edited by Byron Preiss.

Moebius: I absolutely love that drawing, because I think it is one of the earliest pictures I drew which prefigures my current abstract, or non-figurative, work. The detail of the machine or machines under the character shows the same obsession with assembling a variety of non- figurative shapes and making them look shiny and real. Here, of course, that whole non-figurative pattern fits into the overall context, which purports to show a science-fiction writer, caught by the dreamlike nature of his subject, connected to a collective unconscious universe of robotic images through his very body.

The copyright of the illustration is subject to the copyright of the rights holder.

Copyright: Humanoids Publishing

I dont read much (if any) european comics, but this one catched my interested, its on my local library but not avalaible currently so im waiting on it, opinions? It reminded me of Assasins Creed which i used to love, specially the french comics like the Ankh of Isis Trilogy and Hawk Trilogy

Copyright: Humanoides Associes / Bess / Jodorowsky

Copyright: Splitter Verlag & Vicente Segrelles

Copyright: Splitter Verlag & Vicente Segrelles

Snowpiercer was originally a set of three graphic novels done by Casterman in French and Titan in English.

1: The Escape
2: The Explorers
3: Terminus

Then they launched a prequel series which was also supposed to run 3 volumes:

1: Extinction
2: Apocalypse
3: Annihilation

That 3rd book was supposed to be out in 2021? I guess it was Covid-Delayed?

All About That Bass - Postmodern Jukebox European Tour Version

Woof! :D
I.e., a uniquely Euro-American, sexy mashup of ridiculous fun.

Another recent, random American discovery, and IIRC the first little collection of pixel art here, one of my favorite styles based on growing up in the 8-bit PC & gaming age.

"Mich-spich" had me at the "Prague" piece, so I'm just gonna roll with it, blush a little, and promise to get back to pure Euro stuff in my next post. 😅

Nightlife in Prague

Astoria Column

Lake View

Nature's Eruption

Blue Lotus

Oregon Coast

Koi Pond

Omg-- Burning Tower !

Michelle is inspired by scenery of the Pacific Northwest, and seemingly much more, such as fantasy worlds and anime / manga. In fact she works in multiple types of media, and is regularly looking to expand and refine her craft. Her site is below, in which there's much more art to look at. She also takes commissions.

https://mich-spich.carrd.co/

(note: I don't know her personally, and this is not a plug)
(just wanted to share the work of another artist I liked)

Copyright: Splitter Verlag & Vicente Segrelles

Copyright: Splitter Verlag & Vicente Segrelles

Hopefully, eventually we get more contributors here, and if I may say so, it's part of why @Nacktmull@lemm.ee and I have worked hard to get things rolling, share content, be good hosts, and welcome you all. I.e., we want to create a pleasant place for people to share Euro-style comics content, talk about such & them, and enjoy.

Jump in as you like. ^^

ART CREDIT: Blazing Blue Remastered, by The_Good_Guy_Two.

Me, I'd never heard of this gal before, but just today, Google featured what I thought was a pretty sweet ligne claire depiction of one of MLK's marches. Reading up, I came to learn a little bit about the African-American creator, Tatyana.

So I goggled & googled, saw the above, and thought... dang! That's some nice ligne claire, baby, particularly focusing on a topic rarely if ever tackled across LC, right?

TBH, I still don't really know that much about Tatyana. Seems she's a Californian who moved to Texas (zoiks). Any winkly-wankley-wuvvly case, I enjoy her art a lot, so here goes some samples:

One thing I've always enjoyed about LC is that it's so much more than just a formulaic Hergé imitation (altho it can still be that, haha), but pretty much like every art style ever, it's more of a launch=point.

Ooh lala, I love how she goes all 'I'mma do my version of Japanese Koi right here!' :D

It's a positional coolness, Johnny. You'll never be able.
Hey wassup big daddy!

Whoopsie, pardon me, esteemed sir!
(or multiple sirs, as the case may be)

Oi! Could almost be a Will Eisner piece, Tenement Stories, etc.

Hahaha, dunno if anyone remembers those classic Coke ads from the 50's & 60's, but this one really sent me. Drunken Santa et al.

"Alright, wrap it up, Roy!"
--Maurice Moss (The IT Crowd)

So then, here's some Tatyana links to pursue, if interested:
https://www.instagram.com/french75studios/
https://www.french75studios.com/

Copyright: Splitter Verlag & Vicente Segrelles

From: the Art of Moebius, published by Epic Comics. Copyright 1989 by Byron Preiss Visual Publications, Inc. and Starwatcher Graphics, Inc.

Moebius's most famous hero, Arzach, flies through his strange world atop a concrete pterodactyl. A silent warrior, Arzach was first serialized in Metal Hurlant in six ground-breaking stories, published in 1974 and 1975. The Arzach strips gave Moebius a chance to try nonnarrative story- telling: breaking away from the word and letting the surrealistic visions tell their own tale.

Moebius: I'm a little like Arzach. Before Metal Hurlant, I was standing still, and it was only after that that I began to move, to stretch my wings, to fly. But I couldn't do it by myself. I'm not a superhero! I needed a bird, figuratively, to carry me further.

So once upon a time, a BD colleague snapped this at market.

Bit later, I tried to sort it in GIMP.
Bah:
https://i.imgur.com/3XXNn77.jpg