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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/
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
No, it's Bob et Bobette (or Suske en Wiske, is it not?) by Willy Vandersteen.
If I understand correctly, he's of Dutch descent, who lived and worked out of Belgique.
In any case, I love this kind of action-packed, early 'Hergé-style' ligne claire.
So funny and cute. <3
Now, if this heavily reminds you of The Misadventures of Jocko, the High-Flying Chimp, with his two little human buddies, well actually he was the star of a slightly different series:
My server was cranky, it was Christmas, and so on, finally I hope everything is back up to speed!
Haha, nah, it's really more like these:
(hmm... metaphor for Snowy- Hergé himself?)
(evil Tintin alert?)
Eureka! I've got... something..?
Meh... so at least it's back to Peru, via fortunato!
In fact, this dates from the 1947 magazine, i.e. how Tintin was being published at the time.
Haha, and here's a fun, fan-redraw:
https://i.imgur.com/uRpRRac.jpg
Artist: In The Depths of Solitude, via Tumbler
Some nice, Christmassy colors there. :-)
Swarte has always been someone who tickled me, with his beautifully clean, mad, pleasing designs. For now, this will have to serve as a minor introduction to his work.
Joost Swarte is a Dutch graphic designer, illustrator and architect, and one of the most famous Dutch comic artists internationally, even though he has not made that many actual comics. Most of his better known series, like Jopo de Pojo, Anton Makassar and Katoen en Pinbal (1972-1979), were made in the 1970s. Afterwards he became far better known as an illustrator and architect.
Swarte is not just a follower of the "Clear Line" tradition of Hergé and Edgar P. Jacobs, but is actually the very person who coined and popularised the phrase "Ligne Claire".
!!
Swarte draws in a very calculated, technically-precise style with much attention to bright colours and elegant design work. Swarte is additionally (co-)initiator of magazines Modern Papier and Scratches, as well as the festival Stripdagen Haarlem, and the Hergé Museum in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.
--Lambiek, with edits & additions by Johnny
More here, with samples: https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/swarte1.htm
Took me a while, but I finally got it!
It's an homage to Luncheon of the Boating Party by Renoir, to the left.
No idea what album this is from, I'm afraid. Anybody know..?
Hey folks-- I'm not feeling too well these days, so I wanted to release some of my notes & scans, just in case.
In this case, there was a fully-constructed page from Tintin and the Picaros, but it got cut for space considerations, as sometimes happens. What's particularly amazing in this case is that George Remi himself (Hergé), took the interviewer step-by-step through the process, in a commentary / supplementary book "Musée."
So I've been working on notes & translations from that book, and it's indeed pretty fascinating, but life is life. Let me just give you the full scans, if you're interested:
As I see it, he's a great, prolific artist, seen above with Le Cycle de Cyann.
This is easily one of the greatest graphic novel series (3 tomes) I've ever read. It's by Lewis Trondheim, creator of the brilliant Donjon mega-series, plus Ralph Azam, McConey / Lapine, and countless others.
SUMMARY: Maggy initially struck me as a 'Bridget Jones'-like youngish woman, in many ways trying to figure out how to apply her canny bag of talents to modern life. In this latest case, she somehow goes from 'boring part-time secretary serving a boring PI (i.e. a dick, a detective),' all the way to swiftly graduating to someone vastly more effective than either, but also crazily embroiled in some lottery ticket & murder scandals. For me, she's such a fun, revelatory, multidimensional character the likes of which we rarely see anymore across multiple mediums.
Now if you'll pardon my rare looseness, instead of trying to parse & analyse as usual, let me just try to give you a direct taste of the experience, through some select panels:
Who is Maggy, anyway? She's young, but canny, resourceful, cynically humorous. She's bold as brass, on the verge of going DOWN.. or NOT, really?
In strolls a new character:
Now we got two. Let's DO this.
Time to get these barstids!
Yeap... bit of an old spoiler, dammit.
Protect yourself, sure... unless someone 'protects themselves even better!'
Any last thoughts, my friend..?
Truly, Maggy is the most wonderful character I've read in ages..
Note: the idea of this blog / site / subr / community is to welcome a pleasant diversity of talents upon a 'Euro-style' expression of artistry and comics, specifically.
Now, here-- Riad Sattouf (creator of "The Arab of the Future"), little blond kid, is back in Syria, early 80's, I think it was?
The first Moebius pic I've ever posted here, haha.
One of the main reasons he's so memorable is because Williams designed a brilliant, treasure-hunt puzzle-book in 1979 that set the stage for geocaching today, not to mention a bunch of other types of 'hidden treasure-type' puzzles.
The ultra-famous picture-book of his was called Masquerade. Indeed, I had a copy as a kid, enjoyed the pics, but didn't have the slightest clue how to solve it. Actually, the 'solving' turned in to fiasco of sorts, which you can read plenty more about online...
So let's just do a bit more of Kit Williams' art:
A delightful mashup of design, puzzle, and symbolism; that's me loving it, yes!
It's from the embarrassing-as-hell album Tintin au Congo (1931 originally, 1946 in color).
The story of how Hergé evolved from 'know-nothing, Belgium insular' to 'evolving world man' is touched on pretty well in Ampton's articles, I think. [link]
EDIT: Despite my criticism above, what we're looking at here is in fact a nice example of polished LC (ligne claire), something which went on to define much of the artform and storytelling sense of BD for... well, it's coming up on 100yrs now. oO
Uderzo designed this Astérix poster for a comics festival in 2002, I think it was.
Some others did, too! Check out the fun: [link]
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.mindoki.com/post/199908
Backside of the card:
72 THE BREEDER
Female rular of Syldaine-Cygnos, the BREEDER demanded the return of the Wild Pecker known as the HORNY GOOF in time for theFall Coitus. APPEARANCES: The Horny Goof (1974) (in Moebius 0).
Looks a bit dangerous, but I guess they know what they're doing.
