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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!

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Front cover of American Paranoid (i.imgur.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a real good murder mystery with some cool plot twists, pretty right-on for classic film noir, both in style and era. Definitely worth a deeper dive when I figure out my Imgur-alternative.

Hervé Bourhis (writer) and Lucas Varela (artist) are the excellent creative team.

https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-88105-BD-American-Parano.html

EDIT: Welp, this post originally started in frustrating fashion, some of it due to the scheduling tool breaking down repeatedly, and some more of it due to the recent death of my friend and neighbor "Cal," who I'd previously mentioned here in October, when he was in the hospital. Let's just say those were some rough days for me, and I apologise for the creative swearing, i.e. "&*(%!@#."

Ah well, moving on...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It's Lucas Varela, he's argentinean. Really good artists, I have a couple of books from him.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Fixed, thank you.
What books do you have of his?

Anyway, he's one of my favorite artists. To me, he has this... awesome gift of boiling things down visually to make the writer's essential points.

On the surface, Varela has an appealing, somewhat minimalistic style, nicely-rendered. Like a tribute to pure linemanship, with an excellence designed to communicate a story cleanly and directly, IMO.

Even so, look at the amusing inventiveness of his 3D design, when he breaks it out, here. One feels he's totally comfortable with all that, and could do it for years, had he moved in a slightly different medium...

Oof, to try to sum up a master artist like this... :S

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I have to check out my library to remember the names, but...

boiling things down visually to make the writer's essential points.

One of the books is drawings only, no text and the story is completely understandable.

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

Yes, I like that format a lot! Jim Woodring is probably my favorite of all in that arena, but I'm also kind of impressed that it seems to work so well no matter who's doing the art.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I bought them in a vacation in Argentina. Argentina have a lot of good comic authors and there have been a history of European/Argentinean comics collaboration. If you have vacation plans, Argentina is pretty cool and have a lot of original comics hard to find elsewhere.

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

Hey, thanks for the sampler! For some reason the images didn't auto-open for me, but I was able to look at the source and see them. (and yes, they seemed correctly formatted)

I loved Longest Day of the Future and Human, but hadn't read the last two. Something to look forward to...