European Graphic Novels++

Jansson of course was the Swedish-Finnish genius who created the Moomins for an all-ages audience, via text novels, a long-running strip, and GN’s. I want to say it drew somewhat upon American Charles Schulz’ work on Peanuts, in which novel character-types were introduced in a fairly LC-style, exploring just what it is to be a thinking, emotional being. But the Moomin-stories were in fact vastly more whimsical and adventurous, with absurdist fairy-tale and folk story dimensions.

The premise here is light as a feather– a Dungeons & Dragons-type character is in a videogame setting, in which he’s attempting to ‘exit the game level,’ presumably to take a nice rest. Frequently that involves attempting to rescue a princess along the way.

I understand Bablet did this piece as sort of a love-letter to video games from his youth.

This is one of the first of (perhaps) many posts to come, ones which unfortunately didn’t manage to migrate over from our original instance, i.e. the late, great Lemm.ee. Much thanks to @emuspawn@geostationary.orbiting.observer ("David in Space") for tracking this one down.