Please settle down, silly geese...
Oh man, pardon the late reply, and thank you so much, compa! <3
I like how you picked out a fun representation of images to draw people in. Well done, matey. 🙂
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'Star-tantrum': legit critique, or maybe a bit of both..? (three pages from Ava Gardner's trip to Rio, ~1954)
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Just finished this one, and found it a fine album, indeed. It's by consistently-excellent artist Ana Miralles and writer Emilio Ruiz.
https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-90856-BD-Ava.html
For me, it was a pretty fascinating little 'time-capsule look' in to the life a major Hollywood star (Ava Gardner), her notably iconoclastic nature, the social norms of the 50's, an obsessive overload of fans, the shamelessly aggressive press, and of course, a brief snapshot of Rio de Janeiro, itself.
https://i.imgur.com/CYtD7t5.jpeg
The unstated joke above is that Ava's agent Dave is thoroughly in to men, which works rather perfectly in the long run, as just-about any hombre swinging a 'third leg' is trying to make a play for her, somehow, some way. XD
https://i.imgur.com/7ZJ2eTG.jpeg
Okay, Ava scared me a bit right at the end, lol.
https://i.imgur.com/2jgBOyW.jpeg
(no idea how long these images will last given Imgur's hugely flaky nature, but what the heck, let's do FULL DETAIL with these)
Whups, oh yeah-- my main point here was actually that I LOVED how well Miralles both depicted and handled the night-life imagery of Rio in a realistic sense. I don't quite have words for it at the moment, but... I find there's a sort of 'clarity' there, if that makes sense.
Ah... love that!
I was in college at the time, and had a small stipend to buy certain crap that might break my budget.
Honestly, tho, I really wanted to just get laid..
Tell me you desperately crave more attention without outright stating it, mate?
Yes of course!
Philip, I'm a complete moron upon such formatting. Terribly sorry, mate.
Huh...!
Interesting.
Well, then, I guess if people don't like it, then they don't like it. (and yes, the point here is indeed ABSOLUTELY about Euro lit)
Honestly, tho-- you down-voters disappoint me. I.e. I feel like there's a place where there's a silly zone of creativity that should always be respected.
Still-- if the people have spoken, then the people have spoken...?
Actually... @Sergio@slrpnk.net, amigo, compa, et al , could you possibly, maybe mention us across those first two links, please?
There is just so much to take care over here, at the moment. And burning myself out accomplishes nothing positive IMO.
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Nate Pyle's crazy-cool "Strange Planet" has been added to the sidebar communities.
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For sure, it's an 'American product,' but it's also got that European-style, sly observational quality.
Oof, I suppose we could argue endlessly upon this stuff, but at the end of the day? I feel like I'm mainly correct in listing it here. Do speak up though if you feel I acted in error.
Oh, and I also cut down on a couple links that are no longer relevant, outdated, etc, upon yon sidebar. So you should only see eight total now, I believe..?
Thanks for sharing. <3
Interesting in that this series first came out a few years before George Lucas' SW revival, specifically with it's new Sith law of 'there can only be two,' in which the apprentice essentially has to prove themselves worthy by murdering their master.
George... I feel like you might have borrowed something from Alejandro, here!
AFAIK Juan Gimenez did most (or all?) of the Metabaron art, so yeah... same person!
Bonjour, Grubert!!
(Je proclame toujours que je suis prêt pour la tempête, mais...)
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THROYA HANDS INNA AIR LIKYA JUST DON'T CARE, from Alix Garin's superb "Impénétrable." (5 pages total, plus notes)
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https://www.bedetheque.com/BD-Impenetrable-503154.html
This image hit me fairly early-on as I was reading what I would later realise was a super-wonderful BD. But why this particular pic? Welp, because I absolutely LOVE it when comics artists find ways to reduce image detail in order to convey a clear message.
And meanwhile, as the reader, there's really nothing to complain about! Everything makes sense, and there's really no particularly good reason to add extra detail, at least as I see it.
Eh, here's the full page, anyway, in which both the author and subject Alix Garin are livin' it up in a Berlin nightclub:
https://i.imgur.com/eBdWFql.jpeg
Anyway, BDT has this to say about the album: (with a little translation help from some idiot)
]> In a deeply intimate and moving narrative, Alix Garin tells us about her liberating journey through the meandering, baffling nature of sexual disorders. About the struggle to regain possession of one's body and sexual desire. It is in fact a highly-moving quest for healing, emancipation and love.
]> ]> Through ups and downs, failures and victories, Alix explores the depths of her own psyche, the links between the physical and the mind, and the complexity of sexuality.
Anyway, more later on this magnificent, significant work, but here's a few more 'nightlife Berlin-style' pages I thought you might like. I know I did: :D
https://imgur.com/a/alix-enjoying-berlin-nightlife-from-superb-gn-bd-imp-n-trable-2024-jOj3luS
Oh, man...
I wish I could point a memory-hazing ray gun at my head over & over again, such that I could relive all my favorite things. Flashpoint is definitely up there, haha.
Alright, now -- c'mon 'Science-People,' let's get cracking, eh!?!
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COMMUNITY NOTES for early July '25. (includes lots more images by this artist, Darius Puia)
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I'm imagining the title here being "Going for a new tattoo?," based on the sign. It's by German cyberpunk artist Puia, who runs Baka Arts. As of the moment it doesn't look like he's doing any BD, but I think he'd be a great fit.
There's loads more of his cool LC-style stuff at his Instagram. Note: the entry link below doesn't need you to be logged in to see the images.
INSTAGRAM:
https://imginn.com/bakaarts/
So, I'm currently finishing up a small project to look through every migrated post here, deleting where necessary, but mostly adding 'flair,' which you should be able to see on the sidebar. When I'm done, you'll be able to hit any of those buttons and see a curated list of matching posts.
Still a few things to do before I feel like this place is 'up to speed' after the move, but it's getting closer and closer. One annoying problem is that almost every inter-community link that's been posted here which once worked, is now broken, and even as the same community runner, I can't edit them except to add flair. Perhaps this is a feature that will one day be added across the Fediverse, though?
Anyway, the biggest blow of course remains the loss of almost 1200 subscribers, meaning we're somehow right back to where we started from in needing to get this place more exposure, some how, some way. Sort of ironic I guess, in that August 1st will mark our two-year anniversary. 🥴
Thanks for reading, and have a nice weekend, everyone. ^^
Here's a place to share some fun links, browser games, and chitchat about whatever...
LINKS:
- Play the randomly-generated Tintin quiz !
- Behold the amazing Floor796 animated character project. (see how many famous BD characters you can spot)
- Browse the utterly fascinating Marginalian blog, in which the author regularly takes deep dives in to the arts, literature, philosophy and so forth, tying everything together in delightful, thought-provoking, and uplifting ways.
- Play the quiz "Who are these ten classic characters just about to appear?" [ Answers ]
- Enter a trance-state via the ever-scrolling ZOOMQUILT and ZOOMQUILT2.
- It's free ANIMATED MOVIE NIGHT. (four films and five shorts) [NOTE: Some of the links there are to the matching lemm.ee posts, but I can't edit them from my new acct. A simple search will quickly turn them up, though.]
- Play thousands of your favorite old flash (and other browser games) via the amazing Flashpoint Project.
GAMES: (I'll be adding pictures and a table in future)
- ARMOR ALLEY, arguably the greatest side-scrolling helicopter game of all time.
- SOLITAIRE BATTLESHIPS, and ~40 other excellent puzzle games.
- KONKR, a simple but challenging series of tactical boardgame battles, something like RISK, but powered up with special forces.
- POLYTRACK, a fun, tough set of low-poly tracks to race through, directly inspired by TrackMania.
- PRINCE OF PERSIA, a browser version of this legendary classic. (Note that this version allows you to tweak time, health and level number right in the URL!)
- Return of the SLIMEPIRES, a super-fun, totally original, zombie-themed platformer. [Note: there's a higher-res version here]
- ROGUE FABLE III, an excellent roguelike that only takes an hour or so to beat, featuring loads of interesting character classes. [WIKI]
- SABOTAGE, an hilarious but tough, top-down action game, loosely based on the early-80's classic Castle Wolfenstein, but with much smoother gameplay.
- SPELUNKY, hands-down the greatest roguelike platformer ever. Simple to get in to, but be warned that the learning curve is immense. Fortunately, there's a super-helpful WIKI.
- TOWER-SWAP, a tremendously fun, original, addictive mashup of the match-3 and tower defense genres, both of which I'm ordinarily kind of fatigued by.
Well, there's a reasonable start. Much more to add in coming weeks and months, and of course feel free to nominate your favorites. Or just to chat about whatever...
With much thanks to PF's site-runner, as well as good advice from @Blaze@piefed.social, we've successfully moved!
NEW ADDRESS:
https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels
OLD ADDRESS:
https://lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels
On the positive tip, we were able to preserve ~390 out of ~550 historical posts, so that's better than starting over. On a more sobering side, it looks like we're going to lose most of our (current) ~1,260 subscribers, and PieFed being a different instance, running different software, it's not clear to me if we're going to get the same exposure to "ALL" streams that we once enjoyed.
While it's true that I can invite individual members to join, it seems that (unlike PF), the Lemmy software doesn't allow me to see a list of subscribers, even as the founder and head mod. If anyone has any ideas on that, feel free to advise...
In any case, I hope you find something you might like at our (now smaller 😅) community / sub-lemmy.
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Gerudo-- I think MAYBE I see what you're saying.
I.e., Nate's stuff is not strictly Euro in nature, so you're trying to 'call me out, right?'
But here's the thing, dude-- have you actually READ the purpose and backstory of this community..?
Come on, dude-- let's talk about it, eh..?