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“BD” refers to Franco-Belgian comics, but let's open things up to include ALL Euro comics and GN's. Euro-style work from around the world is also welcome!

* BD = "Bandes dessinées"
* BDT = Bedetheque
* GN = graphic novel
* LBK = Lambiek
* LC = "Ligne claire"

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Does that show up okay?
I usually don't paste a full page as the thumbnail / lead image, so please let me know if it's hard to see.

Anyway, that's ~~Dutch~~ Flemish, mad-woman character Esther Verkest, with my earlier introduction being here.

I find her a crazy, counter-cultural figure that vastly needs more translations in to English, not unlike good ol' Henk!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Shows up great!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's very similar to an episode of love sex and robots.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's a classic theme I would think, for example via "A wolf in sheep's clothing," and probably via legends / archetypes that go wayyy back.

Perhaps one takeaway might be-- much of our creativity and conceptual invention might be as old as the hills*, yet for the most part, the success in expressing such comes down to the skill of the narrator / artist.

Oof, that's probably the clumsiest thing I've ever written, but hopefully I'm making a shred of sense, there.

* English expression, not sure how many other languages have that or similar

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Weird one. I like it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Esther Verkest is flemish, thank you very much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Verdomme! (I keep making that same klootzak mistake)