European Graphic Novels++

Note that most of these (French language) magazines have been archived - digitized. You can find them at various places online, for example the network of sites that offer college textbooks for free. Anna’s *cough* place, Library *cough* and similar.

He did this cover for SF & fantasy author Jack Vance’s text novel Le Jardin de Sulorum. I find Argentinian Gimenez’ work to be regularly jaw-dropping, and… looks like we might have lost his previous posts here in the August move. Ah well, more stuff to restore for me. 😅

D’oof… I don’t think I’d gotten to Cabanes before. He’s of course the artist across any number of significant BD, but… well, I just liked these four little wordless ones I’d collected across the years:

Madeleine Riffaud (1924-2024) was a French Resistance fighter, poet, journalist and war correspondent. After active resistance to the German occupation of France during WWII, she reported for the communist newspaper “L’Humanité” and other left-wing publications on the Algerian War (during which she survived an assassination attempt) and on the French & American wars in Vietnam. Her reporting on Vietnam was informed by four years she spent in the North in the early 1950s, and in the 1960s by the connections she developed in the South with the Viet Cong. –WP

. https://i.imgur.com/JpfVzsH.jpeg (right-click as needed)