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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 4, 2021 11:56:58 GMT -5
Any idea if these have been translated? I feel like I need to read this. I was curious about that myself a few weeks ago after I read them, but after doing a little searching, all I came up with are German and Spanish translations. No English, unfortunately. |
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Post by Dizzy D on Jan 5, 2021 5:47:24 GMT -5
Any idea if these have been translated? I feel like I need to read this. I was curious about that myself a few weeks ago after I read them, but after doing a little searching, all I came up with are German and Spanish translations. No English, unfortunately. I only found dutch, french and german.
Also there are Bass Amplifiers by the company Marshall. This does interesting things to my search results.
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 12, 2021 12:18:38 GMT -5
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 12, 2021 14:41:17 GMT -5
Any idea if these have been translated? I feel like I need to read this. And I just had a brief e-mail exchange with Macan a few days ago about something else, and took the opportunity to ask him about this; he said there's basically no chance of an English translation, mainly because the publisher thinks there's not enough interest in French comics on the US market (even if it's set in the American West). |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 12, 2021 14:45:52 GMT -5
Any idea if these have been translated? I feel like I need to read this. And I just had a brief e-mail exchange with Macan a few days ago about something else, and took the opportunity to ask him about this; he said there's basically no chance of an English translation, mainly because the publisher thinks there's not enough interest in French comics on the US market (even if it's set in the American West). Bummer. |
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 14, 2021 10:38:47 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 14, 2021 13:32:56 GMT -5
Speaking of auctions, have you seen Hergé's original design for the cover of The Blue Lotus? The story of the picture is pretty cool, too. And it just sold for more than three million euros. |
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Post by kirby101 on Jan 14, 2021 13:52:47 GMT -5
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 15, 2021 20:55:17 GMT -5
IT really sucks that we don't get translated French comics much in the US.. maybe they need to make a few cartoons, we can start the next fad!
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jan 18, 2021 14:09:52 GMT -5
Just looking through Hoopla, it seems they have a recently made some sort of deal with Cinebook.. there's ALOT of new European stuff on there... hopefully I'll get a chance to check them out soon!
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Post by antoine on Jan 25, 2021 20:18:39 GMT -5
I just read the five volumes of Marshal Bass and as EdoBosnar said, I have mixed felling about it. I'm all for dark stories but sometimes it felt like the author was going too far just for shock value. The art is generally very good, but inconsistent. Some pages just felt rushed and not as good as the rest of the books in general. There's a double splash page in each volume and these were all really great.
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Post by berkley on Jan 25, 2021 21:55:05 GMT -5
Sometimes I wish French European BD creators might do a "French Western", or Spanish creators a Spanish (or Mexican or what have you) "Western" - I use the quotes because of course in the strict sense of the term there are only American Westerns, as it refers to a specific historical experience that took place in the US and its expansion westwards. What I mean then is something about the French or Spanish, etc in the New World rather than imitating Hollywood's fetishation of the American "Old West", of which there is already no shortage of examples. There should be there lots of potential story material in their own history in North and South America - what was going on in Louisiana, for example, before it was more or less assimilated linguistically/culturally into the Anglohone world?
But maybe there are lots of Mexican "westerns" already and I just don't know about them. Or Quebec B-D set in the 18th-19th centuries. Chester Brown did produce, in English, the Louis Riel book, that I suppose might qualify as a "Canadian Western" in terms of its historical setting. And there is a Spanish-language book from a few years ago about Pancho Villa that looks interesting.
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Post by antoine on Jan 26, 2021 20:09:51 GMT -5
Sometimes I wish French European BD creators might do a "French Western", or Spanish creators a Spanish (or Mexican or what have you) "Western" - I use the quotes because of course in the strict sense of the term there are only American Westerns, as it refers to a specific historical experience that took place in the US and its expansion westwards. What I mean then is something about the French or Spanish, etc in the New World rather than imitating Hollywood's fetishation of the American "Old West", of which there is already no shortage of examples. There should be there lots of potential story material in their own history in North and South America - what was going on in Louisiana, for example, before it was more or less assimilated linguistically/culturally into the Anglohone world? But maybe there are lots of Mexican "westerns" already and I just don't know about them. Or Quebec B-D set in the 18th-19th centuries. Chester Brown did produce, in English, the Louis Riel book, that I suppose might qualify as a "Canadian Western" in terms of its historical setting. And there is a Spanish-language book from a few years ago about Pancho Villa that looks interesting. I'm trying to thing about Québec BD (where I'm from) set in the 18th-19th century and off the top of my head I can't think of any. There's plenty of 17th century (with the first nations) and early 20th century books though. I'm sure there is some, but I can't believe I can't think of one (I own and read A LOT of Québec BD)... I'm pretty sure Roquefort Raider is also from Québec so he might know. |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jan 27, 2021 13:26:34 GMT -5
The subject came up a while back in codystarbuck 's The Other Guys thread, i.e., the Italian comics series Alan Ford by Max Bunker (Luciano Secchi) and Magnus (Roberto Raviola) and their popularity in the former Yugoslavia - but this seemed like a better place to mention this. There's a really interesting article posted just yesterday at the Calvert Journal that discusses Alan Ford and the strip's runaway popularity in Yugoslavia back in the 1970s and 1980s, which endures to this day in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, etc. |
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Post by berkley on Feb 1, 2021 9:22:23 GMT -5
The subject came up a while back in codystarbuck 's The Other Guys thread, i.e., the Italian comics series Alan Ford by Max Bunker (Luciano Secchi) and Magnus (Roberto Raviola) and their popularity in the former Yugoslavia - but this seemed like a better place to mention this. There's a really interesting article posted just yesterday at the Calvert Journal that discusses Alan Ford and the strip's runaway popularity in Yugoslavia back in the 1970s and 1980s, which endures to this day in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, etc. That was really interesting and the first I ever heard of the Alan Ford comics or of Max Bunker, though I have seen bits of Magnus's work over the years. According to BDGest there were some French editions published in the 70s but they seem to be long out of print. |
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