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 Some background: Bandes dessinées means drawn strips and in France comics are considered one of the ninth arts. Comics are usually published in albums which is roughly A4 standard in size with about 40 pages. The productivity of the writers and artists vary and it is not uncommon that a comic is only published once a year (the Nikopol Trilogy consists of three albums that was published from 1980 to 1992). Some key comics:  Barbarella by Jean-Claude Forest. The comic that really got the sci-fi comics in Europe started. It's basically about Barbarella, a galactic outlaw, who fucks her way across the universe.  Valerian and Laureline by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières. One of the most popular comics in Europe. It's about two agents in time and space (Laureline was a peasant girl from the 11th century France before she became an agent) who eventually rebels against their agency. It is also hugely influential outside of Europe and especially George Lucas cribbed a lot of his designs from the comic, which lead to this passive-aggressive drawing by Mézières:   Thorgal by by writer Jean Van Hamme and artist Grzegorz Rosiński Set in the viking age, a viking chief adopts a child that literally fell from the stars. It's a comic that mixes sci-fi and norse mythology and currently there's a huge crossover event going one where the norse gods is fighting the christian god for supremacy over the humans.  The Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius. An incredible dense comic where Jodorowsky writes about everything from tarot to politics. It also had a lot of spin-offs which makes up the so called Jodoverse.  The Nikopol Trilogy by Enki Bilal. Egyptian gods suddenly appears in future France, hilarity ensues. Enki Bilal is a yugoslavian artist who moved to France when he was nine. He's known for his surreal comics and inspiring chess boxing. His other main work, the Monster Tetralogy, (which is also hugely recommended) deals with the breakup of Yugoslavia from a future viewpoint.
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joehonkie posted:
It's..okay.
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Nov 21, 2018 20:48
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BioTech posted:
There's also the Technopriests which is set in the same universe as the Metabarons and the Incal. The Technopriests is a cult who rules the galaxy with video games:  Three children are born as the result of a rape by three space pirates, one red girl with four arms, one boy who's black haired and one albino kid:  The albino kid tries to take over the cult in order to take it down. It's not as essential as the Metabarons and it's mainly a chance for Jodorowsky to rant about organized religion.
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Some more Enki Bilal. His latest work is a post-apocalyptic story where earth has frozen over and humans is no longer the dominant species:   
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