Graphic Novels

Unsure if this is a graphic novel.
And it is in French, which I do not speak.
Found by accident.

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http://www.olillustrateur.be/hautes-fagnes-contes-et-legendes-la-bd/
 
I'm totally loving this channel Cartoonist Kayfabe by Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg.

The interviews are lengthy; they do interesting commentaries of Wizard and Comics Journal issues; I hadn't heard anything about Octobriana; they've got a Kaze Shinobu video; liked the videos about "outlaw" and bootleg comics.

One of the things I enjoyed most was probably the Tim Vigil interview. Sad that there hasn't been collected editions but he wants to do one. I get a kick out of seeing 80s/90s/early 00s alternative comics getting collected even if I'm not into them but I'd probably get a Vigil collection. Sad that it pretty much always ends up being a crowdfunding thing that gets them going.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIVSjH-srqM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRqIYbg18sY
This David Choe interview is totally nuts, so many crazy stories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QecMMrcCCA

And here's another channel called Archipel, about japanese creators in various mediums.
I don't know if I've ever seen Shinichi Sakamoto's work. I still find the idea of drawing digitally really disconcerting but I am impressed how well he works with his assistants and how seamlessly he can place on a bloody readymade wig onto a character. Maybe I'd notice the seams if I was reading the comic. I often notice artists drawing over 3d models and I don't like it most of the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDpn9fdsRbY
 
Also at Cartoonist Kayfabe:
Gary Groth interview was good. He's publishing Barry Windsor Smith's Monster soon, which I assumed died many years ago but he was working on it for something like 3 decades. A story about living with Jim Steranko. Eisner, Joe Kubert and Gil Kane being unable to do "serious" work well. A funny story about Mark Waid. And talking about a couple of really impressive sounding upcoming graphic novels by first timers.

I skipped around the Steve Bissette interview (it's enormous) and he talks about Taboo (his deliberately edgy horror comic anthology which gave us things like From Hell, Lost Girls and Throat Sprockets by Tim Lucas) and his plans for Tyrant. He still definitely wants to do it.
I didn't know anything about his aborted trilogy of Swamp Thing novels.

It dumfounds me how successful an independent comic could be in the early 90s.
 
Elsewhere, a member PM'd me a link to his graphic novel in progress.
I rarely read graphic / comics / funnies anymore.
He said I could share, so here is the link to his work.
Vitiators
 
Zaharoff said:
Elsewhere, a member PM'd me a link to his graphic novel in progress.
I rarely read graphic / comics / funnies anymore.
He said I could share, so here is the link to his work.
Vitiators
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It looks quite clean. The artwork is much nicer than most guro and hentai I have read. Unfortunately the story is quite confusing to me.
 
Miles Hyman revealed in his Instagram that he is almost done with the art for Une Romance Anglaise, a graphic novel inspired by the Profumo affair written by Jean-Luc Fromental, with whom he published The Prague Coup.
 
Someone mentioned Fabien Vehlmann recently, so I got this short G/N from the library. I enjoyed it a lot. I'm going to buy a copy. Funny and dark.

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Neil Gaiman praised the Miracleman G/N quite a bit. Early Alan Moore. That was really good too.
 
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This sounds like it might be worth checking out.

Jay Stephens Combines Harvey Comics and Horror in Oni's Dwellings

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I highly recommend Starstruck by Elaine Lee and Michael William Kaluta; I hope they finish the third volume someday. I recently read Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Harold Schechter and Eric Powell and it is fantastic.
 
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For those looking for something hopeless and bleak with just the right amount of black humor, I recommand you the works of Al Columbia.
He's been active since the early 90's with some long gaps in between publications. His most famous work is "Pim & Francie: The Golden Bear Days", published by Fantagraphics in 2009.

Have you ever wondered how the art of a Disney or Fleischer animator from the 30's gone insane would look like? Exactly like this.
This book is nightmarish in the best possible way. A lot of alt comix artists have made parodies of Disney characters doing violent or sexual stuff before, but Al Columbia takes the very essence of "golden age" animated cartoons to create his own horror stories. His art looks like the real deal, to the point of blurring the lines between fiction and reality.

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I would also recommand his other works like "Amnesia", "The Trumpets They Play" and "I Was Killing When Killing Wasn't Cool" as well as his most recent works "Amnesia: The Lost Films of Francis D. Longfellow", but they are especially hard to find.
 
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