Is that true? Are comic book stores in France/Europe really that good?
>>152982861na, Islamic states rarely make good art
>I clapped when the preteen girl had her nipples out!>normal words, but a [insert animal here] guy!
If a wojakfag hates it then it must be good
>>152982861Check out Soleil's stuff it's pretty good
>>152982907>Check out Soleil's stuffIs this an artist?
>>152982861They're pretty good, better than comic shops in the US because in Europe they don't segregate book shops from comic shops; it's both in one (usually elegant, large) place. That said, doesn't mean the comics are that much better. There's still plenty of dross, but there are certainly more large format "adult" graphic novels in Eurostores than here. In both senses of the word.
>>152982950Like every Barnes & Nobles across the US?
>>152982887@grok, redraw the bottom left panel in the style of a cult classic European graphic novel
>>152983228Sorry you're not a premium member
>>152982861>Good thing I can't read frenchBartSimpson.webmThough the rest of that page isn't off, I'd like to especially thank the scanslators who let me read Les Nombrils/the Bellybuttons and Seuls/Alone here. Excellent premise and execution.
>>152983280>Seuls/Aloneblonde white girl getting raped by blacks?
>>152982861I want to punch this guy so badly.
>>152982861Eh I’ve never been to a US comic book store that didn’t have a huge variety of third party publishers and artists. It’s not just all marvel and dc these days.
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>>152982887>le wojack meemee templateYour opinion is worthless.
>>152982861The best ones are in some back street cellar in old town.
Name a single French character who even come close to the Strength of American ones. Do they even have anyone above continent-level?US>>>Japan>>>>Korea>>>>>>>>>>>>>>everything else
>>152984011Astrix RAPES and GAPES supershit and his entire verse unironically
I wish the demand for euro comics was higher like with manga. So I can get more free fan scans and translations
>>152982861I'm not worried about France anymore. They dug their own grave.
>>152982879Compared to the United States of Niggers?
>>152982861you have to understand that the French BD industry is MASSIVELY overproducing. all books are selled at a fixed price by law no matter how shitty they are, which means that editors take absolutely zero risks at greenlighting anything with zero editorial oversight as long as the artist gets a ridiculously low share. and unsold stocks are easily recouped as scrap paper.the result is that BD stores are filled half with timeless classics from decades ago that your parents or grandparents already own (and that you can buy for a tenth of the price in any yard sale) and half with shitty zero-value commercial/artsy/political/infotainment (yes we have those) slop which are a few months old at most.any actually good stuff that isn't the classics is usually either long out-of-print or only available on demand, but then you can just buy them yourself online.I have a much better time going to public libraries to find actual gems from the 1980s and 1990s for free, and then I download them on libgen.if I really want a physical copy I can roam yard sales or thrift stores, or simply buy a specific issue used on a specialised website.
>>152985887Huh, thanks for the fascinating commentary, frogger. What do you think of Ledroit and what's the current hot thing in niche FR eurocomic circles?
>>152986141as a rule of thumb any author or series who started before ~2010 is usually good (even commercial ones), anything from after is slop. there aren't many recent exceptions.Ledroit is based. fun fact the library of my Catholic high school had the entire Black Moon Chronicles series, including the ones where a demon fucks a witch on a full page.you can have a look at Emmanuel Civiello for a similar highly detailed fantasy artstyle.if you like fantasy I always found Percevan to be really underrated. the stories, character designs and art style are very classical (Marcinelle school) but that precisely means you get a dense narration with very solid self-contained stories that aren't artifically stretched over 5 volumes of nothing happening.
>>152986617Thanks, anon. You're a pretty cool guy. Don't come to Marseille tomorrow.
>>152983878It's kind of sad some anons need wojak and other meme templates to make their point. I am glad I got to see the era where anons drew their own comics to make an argument.
>>152986641>Don't come to Marseille tomorrow.that'll be hard. I live there.
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>>152982887>I clapped when the preteen girl had her nipples out!that's unironically correct. nudity is to Euro comics what capeshit is to American ones: a prerequisite to any story of any kind that is usually shoehorned in the most uninteresting way. the only difference is that it allows manchildren to pretend that the story is actually for adults, whereas for capeshit it's the opposite.>normal words, but a [insert animal here] guy!that originated from Disney though.
>>152984011Superdupont
>>152986617>the library of my Catholic high school had the entire Black Moon Chronicles series, including the ones where a demon fucks a witch on a full page.Kek. Fuckin' Froideval
>>152982948https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soleil_Productions
>>152982861yes
>>152982861No. France was taken over by Muslims and enacted Sharia Law forbidding art and fun.Soon the rest of Europe will follow. Especially the UK and Germany
>>152982861XIII is kino.>But that's Belgium!Same shit.
>>152984814Say what you like but Niggers made peanut butter, islamists just make shit.
>>152984011Mr Invincible.
>>152982861Furshit should stay on >>>/trash/ where it belongs.
>>152982887Capeshitter meltie kek
You should read Dungeon. It's good.
>>152988122Isn't the fourth book's cover literally a fully nude succubus or something?
lots of choice in France, but it's reaching the "too much choice" stage now, if you just go to the store at random you will only see shit released for normies this week, and a few pretentious award-farming titles. if you want specific or "older than 3 months" stuff you will need to go reserve it online or ask the clerks to do it for you in smaller shops.It's really hard to just walk around and find a new thing to like at random these days.
Flemish hereTotal baguettefaggot death
>>152993146I actually envy the Flemish softcover format. takes much less space than our hardcovers, and cheaper too.
>>152991067>George Washington Carver (who began his peanut research in 1903)?>No!>Peanuts, which are native to the New World tropics, were mashed into paste by Aztecs hundreds of years ago. Evidence of modern peanut butter comes from US patent #306727 issued to Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec in 1884, for a process of milling roasted peanuts between heated surfaces until the peanuts reached “a fluid or semi-fluid state.” As the product cooled, it set into what Edson described as “a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment.” In 1890, George A. Bayle Jr., owner of a food business in St. Louis, manufactured peanut butter and sold it out of barrels. J.H. Kellogg, of cereal fame, secured US patent #580787 in 1897 for his “Process of Preparing Nutmeal,” which produced a “pasty adhesive substance” that Kellogg called “nut-butter.”>George Washington Carver “discovered” hundreds of new and important uses for the peanut? Fathered the peanut industry? Revolutionized southern US agriculture?>No!>Research by Barry Mackintosh, who served as bureau historian for the National Park Service (which manages the G.W. Carver National Monument), demonstrated the following:>Most of Carver’s peanut and sweet potato creations were either unoriginal, impractical, or of uncertain effectiveness. No product born in his laboratory was widely adopted.>The boom years for Southern peanut production came prior to, and not as a result of, Carver’s promotion of the crop.>Carver’s work to improve regional farming practices was not of pioneering scientific importance and had little demonstrable impact.>To see how Carver gained “a popular reputation far transcending the significance of his accomplishments,” read Mackintosh’s excellent article George Washington Carver: The Making of a Myth.
>>152993056No, it's just a dragon. I think you're probably thinking of Froideval's other totally normal comic for sane people, 666.
It's pretty good. This is a picture of a comic book in my city that is pretty decent. For comparison's sake the average space dedicaced to american comics is shown in green (it's not the actual shelves but it's about the same amount)
>>152993525Lol, that's more than they deserve.
>>152993056This is the third book, and yes she's nude in the french edition.
>>152993525That's how much they get in some American shops these days.
>>152993056>>152993571ah yes I remember that too. now imagine 15-year-old me finding this in the BD tray, with the school librarian only a few metres away.
>>152993525>pic relatedTits right up front, poker in the back, lol. Know the name of this book?
>>152993479Good to know, the woke propaganda machine works 24/7 to indoctrinate kids in lies like this here in the US.
>>152994962looks like a Manara book
>>152994854https://readcomiconline.li/Comic/The-Black-Moon-Chronicles/Issue-3?id=116123#1Oh, France, this is why we love you.
>>152982861Ive read translated French comics and while the artwork is usually really varied and unique- there is just something off about their writing I can't really explain. They tend to start of strong, and towards the end lose the plot or kind of stop making any sense at all.
>>152994962the cover comes from the short story VIETATO AI MINORI (Fobidden to minors) by Milo Manara although this specific book may be a compilation
>>152995176The writing in euro comics tends to be dilettante, navel-gazing, or worst of all, dismissive of the medium itself. The art is what is hard carrying the industry.
>>152995176Usually, the artist simply has a totally ballers first arc and then just keeps on going because that's what's putting butter on his baguette.
>>152994854same guy that did the art for requiem (ledroit) guys a legend
>>152982861Some
>>152995176typical, all authors who haven't been hired for a one shot want to be renewed, so they start off strong to sell the concept to the publisher and the audience, and then they start dragging it off for years until the series gets cancelled. and even if it does not it's not uncommon for the artist to bail out at some point because he can't afford waiting for the writer to find some actual ideas, or because newer writers have better ones and new series will sell more anyway.
>>152995270>>152995176In very rare cases, book one is the artist's best work and that apparently kept readers engaged for the rest of the series' run.
>>152995262Eh, the average successful series will have excellent art and acceptable writing, which seems like an okay compromise in a graphic medium.Though there also are a lot of writers who carry the series they're working on, with Jodorowsky being a classic example to the contrary.
>>152993525is there a stair case by any chance near the front of the store and a shelf with books in front of the green square, id be damned if its where i think it is
>>152995382Strasbourg
>>152995408Librairie Kléber ?
>>152995408Ca va buller, right on the money, great place, a shame i stopped living there a few months ago, I probably saw you in real life and didnt even know it
>>152993479What about peanut oil?
>>152982887>I clapped when the preteen girl had her nipples out!This applies to Japanese comics as well
>>152982887How else am I supposed to enjoy reading?
>>152982861>Are comic book stores in France/Europe really that good?Not necessarily. The good thing about Eurocomics are that they aren't stuck in the rigid superhero genre for the majority of their publishing. You get a lot more variety, and since everybody isn't forced into one of two companies to work on the same content, you get better stories that aren't forced into being another Superman or Batman comic by executives.
>>152996762Yes, and that means there are far more fantasy and comedy eurocomics than just capeshit.
>>152995262>being so dismissive
>>152982887You know i wasnt convinced before but now that you attached this ugly ass regurgitated cartoon along it now i believe you
>>152995473This is not my shop and I don't go there often to begin with.
>>152997123What shops do you like in Strasbourg? I was there for a day or two last year for a cousin's wedding nearby. Really nice part of the world so I'll probably go back. Wanted to check out le Tigre, but it was closed, so I picked some stuff up in Ca va buller, and spent a bunch on games in Philibert.
>>152995477Japanese is sexualized as well
>>152997175This isn't /int/, go plan your travels elsewhereIf you're a weeb Vent Divin really upped their manga catalog. If you're looking for history the cathedral is great and you can go up on the roof. If you want to eat well there is the Maison Kammerzell which is pretty fancy, but if you want to knock down some beers while eating flammenkuche then Le Tigre is good, though there's a lot bars doing the same kinda stuff around the University. If you want some christmas spirit you have to come during december, BUT plan your actual visit of the christmas markets starting from around 7 PM to 9 PM, because that's the time where there's all the lights and a lot of tourists either go back home in buses or go to the restaurants. If you go in the middle of the afternoon it's too packed to be really enjoyable unless you've never been.
>>152997554I've already been and done all the tourist shit, I'm not talking about bars and restaurants, or shops in general, but comic book shops. I meant Librairie le Tigre. I'm in Germany a lot to see family, so I'm long past caring about Christmas markets.I'll probably just hit up Strasbourg briefly before leaving or after arriving at the airport, depending on timing. Mainly I'd visit the cousin near Scherwiller and then do some walking in the area/Vosges.
>>152982887Spbp>>152995477Rent free
bump for cool eurocomic recommendations
>>152982861Making a comic about how great and amazing French comics are is like those people who make tiktoks about how happy they are to be single and childless at 40.Something smells shit in the water
>>152982887
>>153000642L'ombre de Lumieres. Written by Alain Ayrles of The Swindling Indies. The depravities of a 17th century libertine, told in mostly epistolary form, kind of like Dangerous Liaisons.Les Sentiers d'Anahuac. A tale about the collision between the old world Christian societies and the New World, itself with art that's a meeting of a sort of woodblock engraving style and the Codices.Soli Deo Gratia, twins born in the Holy Roman Empire try to use their talent for music to escape from a life of poverty and toil as peasants.Some of my recent favourites.
>>153001226Niiiiiiice, thanks!
>>152996868nice pair
So, how European are we?
>>153000677>Something smells shit in the waterThe Capeshit, that is.
