European Graphic Novels+

As I see it, Bryan Talbot is one of the three biggest, living British talents in comics, along with Pat Mills and Alan Moore... oof, with Neil Gaiman pretty-much nuking his reputation, recently. :S

Talbot's The Tale of One Bad Rat moved me a lot, winning multiple awards as it were, and I'd say his five, hard-hitting Grandville books are just about the pinnacle of conventional anthropomorphic adventure-dramas in BD's, alongside the sensational Cité 14 / "District 14" series.

Now, I've had this panel queued up -forever- to post, but have been equally torn since forever whether I wanted to actually post it. For example, as someone fascinated by sea life, such as mollusks & crustaceans, the fact that we keep lobsters in tanks like this, with their pincers tied, only to meet a boiling end when they get 'lucky,' doesn't sit very well with me. OTOH, in art there is truth, and one thing Talbot does a lot of in Grandville is demonstrate the vagaries of human cruelty.

In any case, it's a great BD art piece IMO.

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/t/talbot_bryan.htm

In which we shine a little spotlight on "A Stolen Lunch, Avenged" from this promising, enjoyable, nicely-executed webcomic.

On a distant planet, a prying scribe, an overly sentimental constable, and a mayor resurrect a sleepy town’s long-defunct priest-bot. But “Father Stanley” is not what he seems. Meanwhile, in a nearby region, a scheming wizard accidentally sends a war-god into the body of an angry rooster(!) Story by Simon Roy and Jess Pollard, Art by Simon Roy, Colors by Sergey Nazarov. --with Johnny edits

Okay, that's the overall webcomic's self-description, but what this little chapter is specifically about is our scribe (the young woman), her hulking friend, and his dad on a side-quest to rescue a beloved statue's head, which was sawed off by vandals some time in the past. (hmm, could that have been you, Bartholemew?)

Meh, enough balloon juice, here are the dang-ol' pages:

https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/griz-grobus-and-other-stories/a-stolen-lunch-avenged/viewer?title_no=741329&episode_no=22

Now, I'd say my one and only complaint about this series is that it shifts a bit wildly between different characters & different stories, altho even so, it remains remarkably easy to flow along with IMO. Meanwhile, what the webcomic gets RIGHT to me is the impressive world-building, skilled but homegrown-style art, overall imagination, and intercharacter-dialogue, to mention some mentionables.

Good dialogue is SUCH an underrated thing in comics... 😔

So what are these in tribute to, exactly?

Don't ask me, I'm just a bot!

Haha yes, and it's kinda wild to submit this to "Euro comics," when the imp clearly sounds like an NYC taxi-driver. But hear me out, if you please:

I'm working on the upcoming master list of Euro & Euro-style webcomics, but wanted to first add a little context to one of the upcoming entries, i.e. Wormy, which appeared in TSR's Dragon magazine from 1977-'88. The magazine of course was directly founded to aid and inform serious Dungeons & Dragons players, a pioneering role-playing game which was heavily inspired by European fantasy, wargaming, and of course J.R.R. Tolkien's fictional worlds.

David Trampier was just about my favorite of all the talented TSR artists, whose work heavily featured in much of the original 'modules' and reference books. [samples] Wormy itself was hugely creative, frequently hilarious, and did excellent world-building IMO. It was quite unique for it's time, and remarkably, I'm not sure I've ever seen it's match, since. Jeff Smith's Bone might be the closest thing I'm aware of.

Sadly, Trampier split from TSR rather acrimoniously around 1988, and he passed away in 2014 before his Wormy stories could be fully collected, expanded upon, and published. (one's mind practically salivates over his final, unpublished pages, presumably being somewhere in storage when he died)

Here then are the opening pages to this classic, which a few years ago I did some color and contrast corrections on: [Wormy, the first seven]

EDIT: Ooh, ooh, and the helpful template of the music that trampier was riffing on: Misty Mountains Cold (it's a nice little song, don't you think?)

(can't believe the post is still alive on Imgur, haha)

Well, here we are. My first little scheduled bot post. If this works, I'll be able to drip content on a regular basis, hopefully freeing me up to spend more time on longer-form articles and such.

Mucha of course was a Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist. Living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, he was widely known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt.] He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, as well as designs, which became among the best-known images of the period. (credit: WP)

Part of the reason I'm touching on this piece is because I recently read the collected Médée series by Blandine Le Callet and Nancy Peña, and found it a good read, worth sharing some pages from in future.

The lead pic is a still from Alexander, Servant of the Water of Life, by Reimena Lee. I've only just started it, but as a history nut, I have hopes! Here's the about:

It's an online graphic novel retelling the life and legends of Alexander the Great, part of a 2000yr old literary tradition called the Alexander Romance.

In 323 BCE, Alexander the Great begins to fear. Fearing the destruction of his pothos — i.e., his longing for life, ambition, and eternal conquest — from old age, Alexander embarks on a quest for the elusive Water of Life while accompanied by his wisest, most trustworthy Servant.

As they experience a series of countless fabulous wonders, including glass submarines, naked philosophers, Amazonians, and talking prophetic trees, Alexander confronts his complex legacy and reflects on the life and deeds that will cement his transformation into one of the most unforgettable figures in world history.

alexanderromance.com

And here's one I finally finished, the other week. It's called Vattu:

It's set off-world, in a sort of middle-ages era, and reimagines what society, species, politics and even physical laws are like. It took 12yrs to produce and consists of 1200+ pages, so anyone who digs it is in for a long treat. My one complaint is that some of the main characters are a bit hard to tell apart, but then there's a helpful guide for that. 🙂

https://rice-boy.com/vattu/

• TBH it's Southern-USA produced, and I can understand any appropriate backlash upon that, but this one truly does seem 'Euro' in spirit, from my POV.

Mille sabords!, I'd like to put together a nice summation of our favorite Euro-tinged webcomics, a bit like the "Movie Night" link post did.

So... got any favorites there, mateys?

Here's one more gorgeous, unique cover by LEO & colorist Marchal from Amazonia's final book.

The year is 1949, and all the pieces of the puzzle around a strange creature and his extraordinary powers begin to reveal themselves and come together. In the humidity of the Amazon, agent Austin and Captain Délio finally come across the stranded German submarine. This time, the treasure they're looking for is within reach! But they must act quickly, because gold fever spares no one, neither the Brazilian secret services, nor the fleeing Nazis, not to mention the cannibal tribes that roam the area... --BDT

Yes, I'm afraid this series dipped in to the age-old "lost Nazi gold" trope, but it still managed to avoid falling in to overt stereotypes for the most part. For example, it was nice to see an MI6 officer (in Kathy Austin) who wasn't stamped in the typical James Bond-type role & mindset. Also interesting in that she's primarily focused on finding a local humanoid with paranormal qualities, whilst everyone else is seemingly after the stashed gold, with both things occupying the same maze-like branches of the mighty Amazon.

There was also a pretty amusing nod to Hergé's Bianca Castafiore, whose counterpart diva -- you guessed it -- can't help bursting in to Faust's The Jewel Song at every opportunity. Still though, as usual with Rodolphe & LEO, there's a careful avoidance of going heavy on the humor, drama and overt eroticism in order to better focus on the core story. On the whole, I found this a good, solid adventure with satisfying art, which will appeal to fans of this specific genre / timeline, as well as fans of the artist-writer team, who already completed two series in this set.

More art samples:
https://www.google.com/search?q=LEO+Rodolphe+Amazonia&udm=2

Oh boy and oh dear, here's another wonderful artist I kinda stumbled backwards in to discovering the other day, when I googled-up the increasingly-relevant phrase "here, at the end of all things."

From his ABOUT:

I've been drawing since I was a young boy at the age of eight. My interest in Sci-Fi and Fantasy was sparked when I first read C.S. Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia" books. Later, I discovered J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings." C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien put their Christian perspective to work that made for beautiful storytelling, as well as leaving me with some profound truths that I found in their work. Their writings inspire my love for the genre today.

My client list includes Weta Workshop, Sideshow Collectibles, Ace, Roc, Pocket, and Scholastic books, as well as the Franklin Mint, The Bradford Exchange, Vivendi/Universal Games, Capital One Bank, Hasbro toys, Acme Archives, Topps Trading Cards, and Lucasfilm Ltd.

I also work closely with Weta Workshop in the creation of licensed reproductions for my "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" Fine Art program."

The images above may or may not last, of course, but in any case, here's where they're sourced from, i.e. Vanderstelt's own site:

https://vandersteltstudio.com/gallery/

This panel comes from the sixth book of the 'godfather of manga's' brilliant Buddha series.

Not only were Tezuka's lines incredibly clear in the ligne claire sense, they were also gorgeously detailed when it came to backgrounds, as seen above. What's more, he never seemed to 'take the easy way out,' i.e. every background had this same level of detail, an amazing feat across the ~2800 total pages of this series.

Now, there are approximately a million interesting things to say about Tezuka's life, his library of works, and his huge influence on the industry that go way beyond a little daily post like this, but if you're not familiar with him, you might hit up good ol' WP. Or for those who've already read a couple books, THIS is a nice reading companion.

As for this particular work? I'd already studied and practiced Buddhism a bit across the years, being influenced by my mom, but this series really brought Gautama Siddhartha to life for me, as well as gave me new perspectives on his teachings. So not only is this 8-book series a semi-fictional literary classic, but I'd say it's also a great way to meet the legend and explore some of his basic teachings.

Plus, it's really just fun, wild, and moving. ❤️

This is the cover from Amazonia #3, which itself represents the third 'season' of Rodolphe & LEO's cool Kenya series. Each season runs five tomes, and I believe that Cinebook has translated the first three of these, so far.*

More at BDT:
https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-53487-BD-Amazonie-Kenya-Saison-3.html

* Oh dear, all those "threes" remind me of the STTNG episode in which the ship gets caught in a "cause and effect" loop. [video]

I was asked to present some Finnish graphic novels for this community, and I think I cant go amiss by starting with the "grand old man" of finnish graphic novels/fantasy comics, Petri Hiltunen.

1) Hiltunen has been active since the 1980's and is perhaps most known for his Praedor fantasy world and the graphic novels, novels and ttrpg set into it.

2) Also he has done some adaptations of historic characters and fiction, like adapting Shakespeares MacBeth and ancient greek historian Xenophons work Anabasis.

3) Another good example of his style is 'trollpunk' albums with Ontot Kukkulat (Hollow Hills) in the 90's and Troll Patrol (with Tuomas Myllylä) in the 2020's.

4) He has also done a lot of strip comics for Finnish newspapers, depicting the observations of wizard Väinämöinen (from our national epic Kalevala) about modern Finnish society.

He has also done many, many more albums on different subjects and historical periods.

I'm not sure how many of his albums have been translated, but I think you can find at least some of the Praedor's and MacBeth in english.

Sorry for the poor quality images. Finn's do a lot things well and in interesting ways, but marketing themselves is not one of them. That or my search engine voodoo was not good enough.

Hi, I'm writing this post to ask for Lemmites for their knoweledge about a graphic novel I'm looking for. I've read the GN over 20 years ago as a teen, so my recollections about it are vague, though I remember that it was great and I've been trying to find it for the last 10 years, every now and then.

Here's what I remember about it:

Art style:

• It might be originally French or Belgian, but I'm not 100% about that.

• I think it was black and white / inked, but again, not 100% about that.

• Fairly realistic style of illustration, but set in a fantasy world with fantastical designs.

• No idea about the release date, but I read it in the late 1990's/early 2000's. It was in english or finnish, though I'm almost 100% it was in english.

• For adults with graphic violence, nudity, sex, etc.

The World:

• A dark fantasy world with slavery, war, rape etc.

• Different races. The main character was of a hobbit like race, with big ears, if I recall correctly. There were also a race of hairy, troll-like creatures that were used as beasts of war. I think there also were some modern human like creatures.

• Many kinds of different fantastical beasts.

• I think there was a war or conflict raging between different evil coded factions, factions having different themes to them (I think).

The Story/scenes from it:

• Main character is thrust into the wider world unto a Heroes Journey, maybe due to a kidnapping of a loved one, but I think there were also some Jesus the Redeemer -like quality or theme to the ending of the story. I'm not sure about the last one.

• A scene where the main character meets a witch and the witch has him turned into a black african male muscle hunk, to fuck him.

• A scene where the main character is carried unto a court of some decadent ruler.

• A scene where the main character befriends one of the hairy war beasts by removing a collar from it.

• In the end, the world is destroyed due to a great cataclysm, but some races survive due to being underground. Later they emerge unto a changed world and its implied that they are the ancestors of Homo Sapiens and Homo Neanderthalis.

I've tried using different search engines to find them, but havent had any luck. I'm fairly certain its not by Moebius or Jorodowsky, though I guess the setting is something what Jorodowsky could have written. Alef-Thau has been suggested to me earlier, but its not that. I just read it couple of days ago.

Please lemmites, you're my only hope.

Now Tintin, are you the dog or the Sun? You can't be both, so please decide! (and please stop laughing, everyone!)

So, the other day I went a-lookin' for more Tintin memes, and found a goodly lot! :D Here's the first group, and I'll getcha' back with the other group when the stars align again upon image uploading:

Beam me UP, professor?

Poster-swap

Lazy mofos

Rascar-crystal

Save yourself!

Ah, the Tintin bed!

The most significant one is Dad-bod Thoth, as I managed to track down the other eight images in that booklet, sourced to BDT. (check it out, Druillet fans!) The other reconstructed posts are my reviews of Alas and Esther Verkest, and I must admit, I enjoyed hosting the image content on Reddit itself. (thanks, spez 😊)

Enjoy.

Oh yeah, and as for my question to y'all, let me explain:

On my end, I'm not a huge fan of republishing fixed-up posts, as it 1) adds to the overall post bloat (Lemmy doesn't allow me to completely delete anything), but also 2) because it can break cross-links in some cases.

OTOH, the greater point is for this stuff to be seen and enjoyed, and with a relatively innocuous update like this, I would guess that many readers doing quick scroll-throughs would miss the good content, assuming they hadn't seen it before. Then again, maybe I'm wrong about that...

Any opinions?

To be honest, I'd wanted to just quickly upload one of Giancola's pieces matching a "Here at the End of All Things"* series I'd like to get started, more or less reflecting my current level of shock, deep sadness, and growing fear about what's currently happening in the States. Unfortunately, image uploads don't seem to be working here at the moment, so all that will have to wait for another day. :S

* the series is themed to Sam & Frodo resting 'pon the slopes of Mt. Doom, awaiting the lava flow, not realising that giant eagles are coming to rescue them [you know]

On the positive tip, I'm quite chuffed to have recently discovered Donato Giancola's art! If I understand correctly, he's first-gen Italian-American, here covering this ultra-famous British series by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Without further ado, here're the art pieces & interview:
https://donatoarts.com/interviews/tor2022

Now if you liked that, you might want to check out his other cool work, covering sci-fi, "empathetic robots," space, fantasy, historical realism, Game of Thrones, MTG, mythology and etc:

https://donatoarts.com/gallery

As I grapple with image-hosting issues, I noticed that Seth's Imgur-hosted review* is still up from over four years ago, so I figured I'd share, with his permission. For those unfamiliar with him, he's an amateur cartoonist and an amazingly dedicated reviewer. You can read more of his comics reviews here and there.

* Perhaps the lesson here is that when content is posted publicly to Imgur and receives upvotes, it's more likely not to be deleted. Hroom...

The Smell Of Starving Boys
by Loo Hui Phang and Frederik Peeters
112 pages
published by Self Made Hero
ISBN: 1910593400

Phang writes a surreal western right in line with Peeters' dreamy sensibilities. While it never quite coalesces into something perfectly explainable afterward, The Smell Of Starving Boys has enough points of interest along the way to satisfy many of its particular kind of audience.

In Texas, in the near aftermath of the Civil War, Oscar is a gay photographer taking a job in the wilds to avoid those he crossed both in terms of business ethics and social mores. Milton's not Milton's real name. And Stingley is a a Dave-Sims-esque utopian visionary whose vision will be built on the blood of aboriginals and women as he carves the frontier into a world that he prefers. Throw in a cadaverous bounty hunter, some exsanguinated horses, and a pile of honest-to-goodness magic and you've got a story deep in the Weird West tradition.

Peeters' artwork is stunning as usual, though the often barren landscapes give him fewer hooks on which to hang his hat. Phang's story is interesting but lurid. Maybe it's your bag and maybe not.

(some minor editing done on the text above)

ADDING ON:
Switzerland's Frederik Peeters is one of the great, modern BD creators for my money. This one-shot album feels totally native to him, so I was surprised to learn that he served only as the artist, and that Laotian-French Phang Loo Hui was in fact the script-writer. I'd never heard of her before, but she seems like an extremely talented writer, interested in bringing to light the stories of various historical figures.

As for the book, I consider it can't-miss if you're a Peeters fan. Sure, it's a bit surreal, and even confounding at times, but that's pretty much par for the course. It also kind of dances with significant issues (gay rights, aboriginal rights, man's exploitation of land & resources) but was consistently observational, and not overbearing in message.

Art-wise, I felt that Peeters' designs paired wonderfully with the American southwest setting, and that his colors have evolved considerably from his work on the masterpiece Aâma sci-fi series. Of course as usual for him (despite not being officially credited on writing), there was his wry, subtle observation of how people communicate... the little pauses and slight expressions that briefly flash across their faces... how their minds brush up against each other, so to speak, and how gentleness and savagery can intermix, just below the surface of demeanor.

I'm afraid those are some poor, bumbling words to describe how great Peeters is at capturing human psychology, but if you know, you know. He's in that 'Blutch**, Grégory Mardon, and Hugo Pratt' territory, as I see it. Creators like these are so impressive to me, as they significantly raise the ceiling of "comics," bringing them to the realm of noteworthy art and literature IMO.

** For those curious, I did a little review of Blutch's Modern Speed here, thankfully still available at the moment.

@can@sh.itjust.works

I know it doesn’t help now but imgur cannot be counted on. Does your instance still not allow uploads? Maybe an alt for that?

Man, I love our instance. Traditionally I've not wanted to burden it by doubling it as an image-host, but then again, if the instance goes down, then this sub goes down, so... yeah. There's that.

Beyond that, there's indeed a cap of 500k here per image, whereas Imgur sits at ~1,000k, and sometimes that's a critical difference. Point is, I generally upload a set of images at a time, which (in this theoretical) would usually require me to parse the content across both lemm.ee and Imgur in order to fit all content (i.e. images over 500k), which... would tend to be an utter PITA when posting. So there's also that.

All that's on top of the fact that almost every post I make requires me to reformat the images, often leaning in to upscaling tools. Again, it gets to be a right PITA...

Mateys, I really do love chatterboxing BD, and would probably be posting multiple times per day if these issues weren't such a slog, on top of dealing with this cursed disease. (CFS/ME)

Anyway, let's see how I might be able to share from my Google Drive. For example, HERE is my Jim Benton collection, and below are some sharing possibilities:

Well, shut my mouth and spank my bottom! That seems to work, right? Can anyone else see that second cartoon?

On my end, working with just that one Google image URL, it's (fluff my goldurn life) this:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/fife/ALs6j_G0hInbbbFt18fl47EcXA0CQFjxRvaU1hsP0otgpBAuFhLbLdWN7omw6J0sROaSL8etgKmX-pt5rFvS-0-iZ8OVQKRwf1XadtXmTKgEFDhpZEMN26jkVUkR1C65YXh0kl-Nkm7KOD-30zhqEXk7c2hHXXiXTmrKJVIyFnYMQNNYXDB-R_ssaLbEqt_oyqwXtgJWkSsZyQGsUmSEZMH9qoHeQNnLWRpVVP_ggP1-viP4JjUgrJESgO__R0ALzj4eT4p6sLcXp8BoGnK0K7_zBiI3An6OTAnGGCYWFgEuX58YN8OB_jBFk9pUvSoBjO6EiM8sjNzHpQgvqLWo3rHKU9GOsLhEvqBi-IR5l-7khilP1s_MoPlcyVNulbTcB43QgHXCecORZabGDpKCO7Bu22pBgJ8b5Z1XZyn_HAj4r1w-AWggHZp1MQt0Wgb96XIkB9jbV3HE8ur-gYF0Nk__pw4Ph94dvgQykvmaufTYbkelaPbRL8DR8wyoaIZKcGhjedLQ9GpHtvheLF7khwge3tPhb_zPZW5X6acZ8eDMgQswg124CesJ0M9_a2wWtrBrDskWvCw9kHKyldg9UT8yJGkt1PTF12RXJR6nyX63P2u4x-lVJbMflzu6iRiJDhSFGYYgMtZjAvpnRTmKoDw9MyAyCFLyxPmC9ggZakA_8O0Vb9ZWpSpMTy8Uz9oVQueJBzEO2xbfj7iVetgGDP-m5-BUtHZuUUmHU3Z-XT_64_qTOL-opxoiFQLVoYJ-aTuMW7R4JUZfAL96HjJBslXFF-0FJiou_PImcMumMeo_KgNPX8solzof0Pix7w6OeDsk0WHAOvcA5Tbd6ywGIZ9CqrfRugl3SNgz4pDNeHxgKeWkB91pHtnQt_VahP2dL0VsBmH1rMFm1F-jncGwIWH8q20n-Kk0lwMjmf0nmHgme20F32YXxDDl37PLSjW6ahCGrtwniE05wDvC6-1p99D6c7uw1Dec9RKThF-Qc3dLzINz5J9CKbpp_fDCu4n2oDSOPdei_e8E9HKCm8lepyJzjdRTxRgU85zDZlAcZIKrmlZmrinBeB6_4zY26AT2ssT6JUAhNNKY4zjLcAda7oNzRLPdsUSmhMs67h5jZ0L7kcFecUSMPnLW_3MxqUSDvTXUzrNVerrZUY-2gcmwfWSWKdQQgYYABXrG2layv5Pc-swRHocJ7tjMTy6Hl293xvoL693Sz5Y3FT2QpZmalqkBUN5bfOASjKE7HAY6FHlTr6Lx_D_WONeApjHFucsaWYIIXyWrqay0gmL-7WonNgPlkMdpGpFwVfsTt8l_4LmX4iWzyXvhzlMuknIA09GNqiBLNk5VDDyU4dIwZmgWdWha0lwTlM_aIB3QZMoSTKVtFqiAwpRq2YK3ixDRl1sJI2NMv427jiNnsQCnaivB3qBk-sUJr5X1nFs0XwkNa_mIPBiD4XmKkMkO54vGI2-zpkjfBtB0P0b0CQXSTiKoF0qoR1af7WjZvLdTYYBrk4HEMJzsoPVtqDfNFZEVxj6qION-gWR7K13emSnUZS1POo41QOkJLmC7bl5rsLSJZ5sl10aSJU1tevZwy3wh4FuHHHZufD_8aRHfC0E5A1pEMA=w1162-h1040?auditContext=forDisplay

Bloody, flippen' hell, mate!!

Heh, let me try to explain: (*deep breath*)

!&@!$* Imgur just casually deleted all the pics which explained the post. (i.e, the twelve in the thumbnail above)

To be clear, the post in question was a review I made about a year ago, upon a wonderful, unique book by one of the greatest creative teams in modern BD for my money, i.e. Kerascoët.

Now, I always try to back up my post content locally, but I just can't find my Satania backup across hard-drive A or hard-drive B, daggit!

So "flippin' feckin" says I, but did anyone happen to see that post and save the images? If so, you would be my hero, because I'd love nothing better than to repost and improve that review. ❤️

Thanks if so, mateys.

He claims to be a cowboy:
https://lemm.ee/post/38133693
(be sure to click on the title, in which there's swimming!)

And lord-a-mighty, he's back for more!
https://lemm.ee/post/38531957
(be sure to click on the title, in which there's plastic surgery!)

EDITORS NOTE: Kinda just trying to see if our 'Henk' content is still standing. So far it looks like it...

Yup! In ten days, we'll have hit the year-and-six months stage of existence. Thanks indeed then to my co-mod Nacktmull for being there the whole way, bringing his friendship, valued perspective, and lots of cool Moeby content. Thanks also to our users who contribute some posts and many useful comments, helping to make the community much more than just 'Nacky and me.'

Now, I can't say this post is going to be entirely uplifting and happy, but let's start with the good news:

• In my recent "movie night" post, I forgot to add the cool Masters of Time film, so I've tracked down and added French, Castellano and Hungarian editions . All eight movies and shorts are currently free to watch online, the first two of which I haven't actually watched in full, so feel free to give me your reaction if you like!
• Moving on swiftly, I'd like to clarify something-- my health is pretty much winding down, and a big part of the reason I started this community (which I like to call "a sublemmy") is to get it up and running in a healthy way as an alt to r/bandedessinee, i.e. not a place pushed around by corporate greed and all that. Note: TBC*, I love both BD and the r/bandedessinee sub, hugely respect their mods, and as you can see, we crosslink each others' subs. <3
• Point is-- I've tried to really bust it for our sub, coming as close as I could to creating one post per day across our first year, and goodness gracious, with the help of Nacky and a couple others, we actually did! I'm really quite proud of that, frankly! Can you tell by my massive ego boost? :P
• And yet, my ultimate intention was always to persuade people who love BD (and Euro works) to post just enough to get a healthy community off the ground here. Even just as a start, you know? Welp, sadly or non-sadly, it seems like we've only made slight progress on that point. What to do, what to do...

Maties, Is there anything more I can do to help? I frankly don't know what else I can do to help grow us, but would welcome whatever thoughts & advice you might have.

• I'm afraid on top of that, there's also a huge downer to add, in that I discovered just yesterday that a load of earlier posts relying on Imgur content were seemingly randomly-wiped. (example: my beloved Satania review) Unfortunately, those posts quite obviously need the image content to make sense, and we're faced with... a rather large project in getting those posts restored, &*(@^!$
• TL;DR-- Imgur seems to mysteriously let some private stuff last over a decade, while eviscerating recent, community, upvoted posts. I just can't understand their logic, at present. At least, from a community-facing POV. (meanwhile, I can definitely understand it if it's just an internal, fluff-'em thing from their end)
• So yeah, I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do in terms of image-hosting at this point, but if you have any advice, feel free to check in here.
• TBC, I DO like posting here a couple times per week or more, and I don't think that will change, as long as I last. But that's putting us more in a "blog" situation, and frankly, I think we can do better than just that, maties.

* = TBC = "to be clear"

@Heterocephalus@lemm.ee

Until a few moments ago, I had no idea this series existed, which in fact ran from 2000-2012, and is not to be confused with an earlier American version from the early 90's. This one seems to be heavily geared towards kids, but what I personally appreciate is the quality animation and background style. And yes, I'm a huge Jungle Book fan, even performing some of the songs on karaoke nights, animal sounds included. 😁

Here's the video, I believe from the second season, 2003...

Tumblr:
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_spylefDYpE1ywj8jq.mp4

YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfDpKLIyMfI

Note: I'm currently, heavily shut down in terms of my image uploads, so can only offer 'one-offs' for the time being.

So then, "Norspac" is an ingenious artist to me, and if there's one thing artists envy & admire about other artists, it's their talent and ingenuity, daggit!

I think my personal favorite of theirs is perhaps Doom Spider:
https://norspac.com/static/7b89ec3781edbefaa5a8a3d2fe6dcfa8/662c7/norspac_doom_spider_shopify.webp

Artist site: https://norspac.com/