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[downthetubes]

Major Blake and Mortimer exhibition announced, putting recent controversy firmly behind the series, plus Cinebook checklist

Edgar P. Jacobs and his very British duo ‘Blake and Mortimer‘, published in English by Cinebook, are the focus on a new exhibition at the Belgian Comic Strip Center, also known as the Comics Art Museum, in Brussels, opening next month. Curated by Eric Dubois, the Odyssey to the origins of Blake and Mortimer exhibition aims to place the heritage work of Blake and Mortimer in its aesthetic,…

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#Adventure Comics #André Juillard #Antoine Aubin #Belgian Comic Strip Center #Blake and Mortimer #Dargaud #downthetubes News #Edgar P. Jacobs #Editions Blake & Mortimer #Jean-Luc Fromental #Jose-Luis Bocquet #King Baudouin Foundation #SF Comics #Ted Benoit #Van Hamme #Yves Sente

[maccosharq]

Whenever I start babygirlifying some middle aged actor it is my god given responsibility to investigate his entire filmography 💪

#david dastmalchian #brian van holt #jon hamm #jason sudeikis #michael c hall #christian slater #christoph waltz #crispin glover #matthew lillard #brendan fraser #jonny lee miller #ewan mcgregor #christian bale #doug jones #bruce campbell #sam neill #viggo mortensen #jason schwartzman #ted raimi

[616witch]

do insects love? yes, these two do.

5 favourite comic book ships: ant-man and the wasp [3/5]

#userraffa #tusergaya #tuserbarry #usermaguire #userotp #avengersedit #marveledit #comicedit #janet van dyne #hank pym #wasp #ant-man #** #*mine: marvel comics #*mine: graphic #art by joelle jones & jesse hamm & rudy ao & michael cho & adam hughes & tom reilly #fuck it we ball fuck it we ball fuck it we ball #heavily inspired by qkwannon's work!!!! directly taken from their dr strange gfx in places :) #and the long format is inspired by their stuff. #anyway not expecting a lotta notes but here we go! wonderbeast next!!! excited.

[balu8]

Cheval Noir #17: The Great Power of the Chninkel

by Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosinski

Dark Horse

#dark horse comics #cheval noir #comics #anthology #grzegorz rosinski #jean van hamme #chninkel #art

[haveyoureadthiscomic-poll]

#thorgal #jean van hamme #grzegorz rosiński #la lombard #cinebook #bande dessinee #bande dessinée

[nearina]

#mathieu van der poel #eli iserbyt #michael vanthourenhout #mvdp #cycling #sport #cyclocross #hamme #podium

[jmkho]

I JUST REMEMBERED THE FALLING SKY HAS THE JOSHMONICA SOLO IN IT

#gvf #greta van fleet #josh kiszka #gvf josh #josh gvf #josh #I'M NOT GONNA SURVIVE THAT SONG LET ALONE WITH JOSH GOING HAMM ON A HARMONICA #joshmonica #just remembered #the falling sky #im going to be Falliing from the sky when this shit is released

[kartaematita]

Jean Van Hamme

#Jean Van Hamme

[mask131]

The Great Power of Chninkel

Since I am talking of French BD (bande-dessinée, comic books), and more specifically of weird and out-there French comics but famous and brilliant and acclaimed by everyone... If you want a high fantasy comic book that is out there and unique, take a look at “The Great Power of Chninkel”

Well I tricked you a bit - it is not French, it is Belgian, but it is still part of the Franco-Belgian BD world. 

“Le Grand Pouvoir du Chninkel” in its original French title. Originally published by issues in the “A Suivre” magazine between 1986 and 1987. Then published in one collected book in 1988, black-and-white as the BD was originally conceived. Then published between 2001 and 2002 as three colorized volume, before 2008 saw a new re-edition of the original collected work as one volume, in black and white. (I read only the black and white version). It was created by Jean Van Hamme, the famous Belgian BD maker (you know he is the guy that created giants such as Thorgal, XIII or Largo Winch) and Grzegorz Rosinski, the Polish artist also famous for his work on Thorgal (in fact, the first language the comic was translated after its French publication was Polish, closely followed by Dutch - there is still no English official translation to this day). 

What is it? Well... To describe it, I’ll have to use a lot of comparisons... As Van Hamme says himself, it starts in a “Tolkien-like world”, as it has a typical Tolkienesque plot: a small nobody belonging to a tiny species overlooked by everyone is chosen for a great task and a quest of cosmic importance that will oppose him to the evil overlords plunging the world into terror and chaos. But as you go further and further into the story, the several nods and references make it obviously clear that this isn’t just a random fantasy story, but also a weird and bizarre retelling of the New Testament, as a sort of “Biblical fantasy”. 

Don’t expect however a new “Narnia”. Oh, far from it! This entire series/comic book is one big parody and subversion of both traditional high fantasy a-la Tolkien and of the Bible, out of all things! In fact, it can surprise people because the comic begins into a very dark and grim setting that brings to mind the Elric Saga and other works of dark fantasy - but the horrors, brutality and darkness of the story is mixed and overlaped by a lot of humor, jokes, comical misundertanding and biting irony that overall makes it  feel like a cross between “Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser” and “The Life of Brian”. And did I mention that the species to which our main hero (a bizarre cross and parody of both Frodo and Jesus) belongs was heavily inspired by the Gelflings of “The Dark Crystal”? 

Fascinating, inventive, very funny, but also very adult, bitter and cynic, it is a short but very effective work that truly deserves a place in fantasy comic books. When it was originally released it was considered a great work by critics, and it is still considered one of the best works of the Van Hamme/Rosinski duo - but the audience of 80s Belgium and France was not really ready for that, and the comic did not sell well, resulting in its relative obscurity... Until the 2000s and the big resurgence in fantasy, which saw reeditions of Chninkel and the audience finally enjoying and appreciating it (the addition of more fantasy mainstream works in people’s mind probably helped regrow the popularity of this comic whose references might have been too obscure or “nerdy” for 80s French-speaking countries). 

I notably saw a section of TV Tropes heavily criticizing the comic for being a “cliché storm” only doing what other works had done to death, both in parodies of fantasy and Biblical parodies... But having read the series, I have to firmly oppose myself. I never saw a fantasy parody quite like that - especially since, despite Van Hamme’s claim that he has a “Tolkien world”, the fantasy world created is taking from so many different inspirations it barely feels Tolkienesque, it is only the plot that is obviously from Tolkien. And yes, there are cliches here - but that’s the point, it is a parody of high fantasy that will gleefully subvert and mock most of the cliches used and known at the time for this genre and those “grand quests of one lonely little fellow against the great powers of the world”. I suspect that the people who wrote that negative “review” didn’t realized that this was written in 1986 - long before a lot of the things we consider references today were created. 

In conclusion: I loved it, and if you want one of those “weird and out there” French comic book stuff, or a foreign fantasy work, or a very bizarre fantasy parody that doesn’t shy away from a dark and nihilistic absurdism, this is a work you might want to take a peek at.

#fantasy #comic book #dark fantasy #bande dessinée #bd #jean van hamme #grzegorz rosinski #le grand pouvoir du chninkel #the great power of chninkel #parody

[apaneladay]

Jean Van Hamme (writer), William Vance (artist) XIII #2 – Là où va l’Indien… (1985) Published by Dargaud

#jean van hamme #william vance #xiii #bd #comics #comic panels

[balu8]

Thorgal: Beyond the Shadows

by Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosinski

Cinebook

#cinebook #comic book #bande dessinée #thorgal #grzegorz rosinski #jean van hamme

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#xiii #jean van hamme #dargaud #cinebook #bande dessinee #bande dessinée

[semper-legens]

60. Story Without a Hero, by Dany and Jean Van Hamme

Owned: No, library Page count: 56 My summary: A plane crashes in the jungle, and from the wreckage, a handful of survivors have crawled. But how will they get out of this unforgiving land? And will they live to tell the tale? My rating: 2/5 My commentary:

This is going to be one of those things about which I have very little to say. Look, not everything's gonna be a winner. I picked this up at work on a whim, because it looked vaguely interesting, but the overall response I have to it is...eh. Like, it killed about ten minutes to read. That was really the best I can say for it. Probably going to forget I ever read this one the second it leaves my sight.

The problem is that this comic is far, far too short for its reasonably expansive cast. I couldn't remember anyone's name or what their deal was, and character arcs are by necessity shortened down to mere functionality, without much purpose or interest. All of the characters were stereotypes - dictatorial Latin American military man, rugged American actor, kid who is forced to kill someone, Woman. I didn't remember any of their names or why I should care about them. Because I didn't. I could totally see how this premise and story could be expanded to a full-length, multi-issue comic, but this was just too short to develop its ideas at all.

Next, a ballet studio filled with competitive dancers.

#Story Without A Hero #Dany #Jean Van Hamme #bookblr #book blog #book blogger #2

[bbanimalstories]

Details from "Thorgal: Child of the Stars" from duo Rosínski-Van Hamme, 1985.

#scans #rosinski van hamme #thorgal #fantasy art #80s comics

[notesfromachair]

Midge and Birdie and Me

I am a child of the late sixties and seventies.  What this means is that I grew up at a very opportune time.  There was a social and cultural revolution going on in America and I was young enough not to have to worry about getting drafted but old enough to enjoy the tail end of hippie culture, rock ‘n roll music, the second golden age of movies and the takeover of America by a new…

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#70s fashion #ann-margret #bette midler #born to be wild #Bye Bye Birdie #dancing #dick van dyke #Elvis #hats #Johnny Carson #Jon Hamm #Mad Men #Mad Men finale #plaid suit #Rachel Brosnahan #TCM #tcm film festival #the marvelous mrs. maisel #the tonight show #wind machine

[guerrilla-operator]

#XIII #william vance #jean van hamme #comic art #thirteen