What are the best Euro comics?

What are the best Euro comics?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Moomin.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      is there a complete collection, ive seen some books but never a complete omnibus of the comics or whatever. i think it would be a good present for my little sister

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Drawn and quarterly have a two volume omnibus series called Moomin Deluxe. Volume 1 is all the Tove Jansson ones and volume 2 is the Lars Jansson ones. I'm pretty sure the content is the same as the earlier 10 volume set they had out.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          oh sweet, it looks great
          >£50
          idk if my sister deserves that kek

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Could always just get her a couple of the 10 volume ones, they're £12 each. Or give her a .cbr, they're all ripped.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    1) Learn to use your search bar, you lazy c**t.
    2) "Best" is a misnomer since there's no such thing as a good euro comic.
    3) Frick you and get off my board, parasite.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >there's no such thing as a good euro comic.
      >3) Frick you and get off my board, parasite

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You posted it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >literally european equivalent of capeshit

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Tintin
    Asterix
    Franquin era of Spirou & Gaston
    Corto Maltese
    Thorgal

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >spoonfeeding the moron
      have a nice day.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Corto Maltese
      Did IDW ever say if they were going to do the new ones, or are they just stopping with the Pratt era?

      >Thorgal
      This was a miss for me, I was expecting fun viking-style adventures, but then I got a bunch of sci-fi alien shit. Granted I only read the first couple of volumes.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Thorgal is good because it isn't about vikings, it's got a really good blend of scifi and fantasy. But most of all the stories are just a cut above most comics in quality.

        Most of them are better than American and Japanese comics.

        idk there's still a lot of uninspired boring trash, lots of passable thrillers with art that's just ok. I don't think the market is super healthy or competitive right now with manga.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I already saw the new Corto drawn by that artist whats his name translated. Or maybe it was just scanlated. BTW, there is a brand new Corto, Berlin Nights, where Corto mentaydets young Hitler.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Most of them are better than American and Japanese comics.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nah, euro are by far the worst.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They are better at everything

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Nope.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No, not really.

      idk but the Incal Trilogy with Metabaron + Metabarons are the best comics I've ever read in my life and probably will ever read. They put actual meaning and spirituality into the writing, the art of course is amazing but the way they juggle these existential themes in a positive yet light hearted and endearing way is what makes these comics incredible to me. I feel like its something you either connect with because you are a spiritual person as well or you don't. When I see people call it nonsense or weird for the sake of it they are always close minded more literal thinkers, I think the books are inherently metaphysical. I wouldnt be rambling on about them if it was purely for pseud reasons though, I was seriously impacted by these books. Everyone should read them if you havent before.

      Absolutely, it gets into the make up of reality and your place in it which is undeniably a deep theme. But then this gets into what you consider deep and not deep and will make me sound like a pseud just for appreciating a book I like a lot. I love scifi and have read many other "nice space epics" the way you off handedly describe this would imply theyre all like this and theyre actually not so I dont know what the frick you read but Id like some of it. Most writers are dry with not much to say about anything and no real humanity to the overall message whereas everything in the Incal ties to the human spirit.

      I like him a lot, his characters speak from their heart and say exactly whats on their mind. Maybe its a pain for you but its refreshing and interesting to me. Never even understood this, people who say this wont elaborate about whats painful about it for you like im just supposed to understand what you meant when I did not experience what you did.

      To me, Jodo's comics aren't very human. They're more symbolic than anything.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Requiem vampire Knight, Chronicles of The Black Moon and side stories.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    idk but the Incal Trilogy with Metabaron + Metabarons are the best comics I've ever read in my life and probably will ever read. They put actual meaning and spirituality into the writing, the art of course is amazing but the way they juggle these existential themes in a positive yet light hearted and endearing way is what makes these comics incredible to me. I feel like its something you either connect with because you are a spiritual person as well or you don't. When I see people call it nonsense or weird for the sake of it they are always close minded more literal thinkers, I think the books are inherently metaphysical. I wouldnt be rambling on about them if it was purely for pseud reasons though, I was seriously impacted by these books. Everyone should read them if you havent before.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's not nonsense but it's not very deep either. It's a nice space epic. Far better than Incal but existential themes? Not really.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Absolutely, it gets into the make up of reality and your place in it which is undeniably a deep theme. But then this gets into what you consider deep and not deep and will make me sound like a pseud just for appreciating a book I like a lot. I love scifi and have read many other "nice space epics" the way you off handedly describe this would imply theyre all like this and theyre actually not so I dont know what the frick you read but Id like some of it. Most writers are dry with not much to say about anything and no real humanity to the overall message whereas everything in the Incal ties to the human spirit.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't think I like Jodorowsky much, his dialogue is a pain to read and his newer comics for the Metabaron and Incal have been outright bad.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I like him when he writes less wacky out there metaphysical stories. Bouncer is probably my favourite of his books.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Bouncer was alright I suppose. Not very memorable though, especially when eurocomics have so much better western stories to choose from like the Undertaker or Blueberry.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I like him a lot, his characters speak from their heart and say exactly whats on their mind. Maybe its a pain for you but its refreshing and interesting to me. Never even understood this, people who say this wont elaborate about whats painful about it for you like im just supposed to understand what you meant when I did not experience what you did.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I don't know if you're into his films at all. But his more recent films 'The Dance of Reality' and 'Poetry Without End' had this quality as well. Very direct and honest.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's more that the specific language he uses is too direct, there's no poetry to it and the constant use of juvenile scifi prefixes annoy me. Like he just throws in a random paleo or meta just to spice it up and it has the opposite effect.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Well you're a paleo homosexual and a mega fool!
          But yeah, his comics are too much "show everything, say everything, leave nothing up for interpretation".

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Chilean writer
    >Argentinian artist

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah but it's produced for the European market.

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Corto Maltese is good, but my favourite Hugo Pratt is Scorpions of the Desert.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >The last Italian comic to have any significant popularity.
    We're in dire straits.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I really like Olivier Ledroit's work. Also, Druillet and Moebius are obvious ones.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Looks amazing

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    As long as someone brought it up and now people are fighting over it, no, most european comics are not good.
    Yes there are like 12 or so great one's that mog most japanese and especially american comics but 99% of them are boring trash that do nothing special, they're more like rejected film scripts drawn by cartoonists than anything.
    Say what you will about Weimerica but we have capitalism as an excuse for why capeshit killed American comics forever, europeans? Europeans willfully enjoy trash. They're all just boring s.o.l women troony garbage, b movie thrillers, or sci fi stories. It's like Mark Millar but less edgy, unfinished thrown out movie scripts by writers who don't want to be there more than anything of interest. Literally every europoor comic is just:
    >Lars is a detective trying to solve a cold case from 60 years ago due to no reason beyond severe autism in between botany and poetry.
    >Meanwhile you also have the pov of Anika, a girl living in 1962 whom has to deal with the french student revolution coming up but a love triangle between a rebellious Chad, a suave nerd, and the bourgeoisie son of the dean, oh no! And worst of all it ends in her death!
    >Hendres is a time traveler from the year 34023934 ad, dealing with a bureaucratic system at the end of time and relationship issues with his estranged comatose wife stuck in the astral plane who must look through both periods in time to find the solution to his problems
    Now if you said any of that sounds cool you're a homosexual.
    They're all boring and the worst part is that if Japan did it, it would have been cool, because they would have had a crazy plot twist after the one shot in chapter 2 where the time traveler crashes both their stories and the 3 of them must figure out who killed Anika together.
    Japan does high concept crazy balls to the wall shit that sticks. European comics are just boring and never done well because they're unironically pretentious.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      99% of *anything* is boring trash. Like you really think manga has a better trash to gem ratio when essentially all the most popular series are usually straight up garbage that at best looks pretty? It's also straight up comical that you think the norm for most manga is "high concept" when most I've come across have been incredibly derivative, especially when genres like isekai exist and sell like hotcakes.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Oh no trust me 99% of manga is also hot trash, nothing but the same s.o.l troony bait shonenshit and fantasy shit. My point is europe suffers the same fate, they love what I call "rejected movie comics" as their own personal comic hell.
        They're all terrible. That said japan will slip by more than the european ones.
        America is just dead.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Europe, America, and Japan all make "99% shit" huh? Aren't you so intelligent, you little homosexual?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          How about you tell us about something you like instead of just 'everything is awful'.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >manga has a better trash to gem ratio
        Yes.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Could you maybe use more buzzwords?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That poster did diagnose the problem with 99% of European comics, which is that they all read like (justifiably) rejected film scripts. On top of that the majority have this joyless, uninspired artstyle and bad coloring. I was looking through random scanlations the other day, I forgot to make note of what this was from but it's everything wrong with the European industry right now. Bland drawings with no visual flourish, weak compositions (every panel is an expository midshot), and ugly colors. All of this despite depicting a scenario which could be both exotic and exciting (civilians looting a museum during the Iraq occupation). There's no sense of movement, excitement or anything that would entice you to read it, much less pay money for it. I do agree with the anon that said that the Euro market has that 1% of comics which are the best ever made, but a lot of this stuff is at best a lateral move from just reading capeshit in terms of quality.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The Plotting on this page is better than anything on the Big 2.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Not really.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >which is that they all read like (justifiably) rejected film scripts.
          Fuuuuck no. What crap have you been reading?

          >uninspired artstyle
          it's traditional dumbass. they've been doing realistic art in comics since gringos introduced them to westerns. They never stopped, and (mostly) shifted from war comics to history comics.

          >bad coloring
          haha frick no. Dont know what crap you are reading but euros mastered digital coloring decades before Image and Marvel made anything decent.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >What crap have you been reading?
            Passable but rarely interesting thrillers, fantasy, scifi, westerns... I've been avoiding the humor comics about sex though.

            > they've been doing realistic art in comics since gringos introduced them to westerns
            The art being bad has nothing to do with realism. As for color, even artists whose inked pages look great like Ralph Meyer get ruined in the coloring process.

            Those are some rather sweeping generalizations you're making there bud with only thumbing through a handful of random comics.

            Should have specified recent comics (last 10 years). And I didn't say this was my only exposure, I think there's a reason I fell out of reading this stuff. One has to ask why it doesn't sell much at all outside of the Francophone market (with the exception of certain classics like Tintin and maybe Asterix), and I'm sure manga is taking up more and more of the market share in Europe as it is in the US.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              From my experience the euromarket has way more variety and quality to it compared to manga, it just doesn't have much mass appeal. Shit like MHA is popular despite being written like utter dogshit then you have something like Freaks' Squeele which has a similar premise yet is infinitely more refreshing but it's still relatively obscure. Quality doesn't always translate to sales and this is definitely the case with eurocomics.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >the euromarket has way more variety and quality to it compared to manga
                lol
                lmao even

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Manga and anime constantly cannibalizes themselves, a garbage genre like isekai wouldn't exist otherwise.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Isekai is not a high selling genre, Paco. You're very silly.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I don't keep up on sales figures, but that seems kind of unlikely considering that every new anime season has several isekai adaptations. Why would they make them if the manga didn't sell?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You can easily find that information if you wanted to, but you'd rather talk out of your ass. That's why you're silly, you're out of your depth.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I'm not even that guy. Chill out, bro.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2022-12-16/top-50-best-selling-digital-manga-and-light-novels-on-book-walker-in-2022-isekai-light-novels-still-/.193007

                I just looked this up, but feel free to tell me why it's wrong. Not that I care though, east v west shit is gay.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >east v west shit is gay
                Indeed. To get back on topic, when the frick are they gonna continue Last of the Atlases?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's finished isn't it, or do you mean the English version?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah, I really hope Europe didn't drop it. I can't into frog.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                You do know a light novel is not a manga, right?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Follow the links to the by category lists.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Should have specified recent comics (last 10 years). And I didn't say this was my only exposure, I think there's a reason I fell out of reading this stuff. One has to ask why it doesn't sell much at all outside of the Francophone market (with the exception of certain classics like Tintin and maybe Asterix)
              That is fair. There's a reason soleil's coomershit ended up becoming the most talked about eurocomics.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Should have specified recent comics (last 10 years).
              Well Universal War II is from 2013

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Don't remind me, I've been waiting about 7 years for volume 4 at this point and there's nothing in sight.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Hah. At least you didn't get fricked at the literal final issue. Frick you Requiem

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Basically every year, Pat Mills' wife, or whoever runs the facebook page, comments and assures everyone that the final volume is totally, definitely coming soon. This year's message:

                >The good news is that legendary comic writer/creator Pat Mills, has confirmed that superstar artist Olivier Ledroit started on Tome 12, the second half of this volume, in September 2022. Now, it usually takes him a year to complete a book. In addition, Pat has informed me that a further final tome has been added – Tome 13 – so we will have to wait until this is completed and release it in Vol.6 to complete the series.

                So now we're actually waiting for 2 final issues, ahahahaha, frick.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                didn't he said the final issue was already written and waiting for ledroit's art like half a decade ago

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Those are some rather sweeping generalizations you're making there bud with only thumbing through a handful of random comics.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          what's the name of this comic? I have been reading Alphonso Font since the mid 1970s. I missed this one. It's funny how he presents the AMericans as buffoons.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Europe has Japan beat in black and white let alone color.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        meanwhile literally every manga page is just SPEEDLINES EVERYWHERE and somehow these homosexual weebs slurp it up

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        See this is what I'm talking about, every european comic is like this.
        I don't want to necropost from page 8 because I just awoke and the thread is about to fall of the catalog but literally every european thriller is like this shit I swear. I don't care how good the use of pure black on white is for the shading, the action scene in one page alone is boring because of how overdone it is.
        It's always some dude with a small weapons fire revolver chasing the protagonist through a building then the street while the protagonist jumps through the windows, roofs, and cars to dodge the main bad guys storm trooper aim.
        It's all the same derivative boring crap since the 1920s BUT OH IT'S EUROPEAN AND THEREFORE GOOD ISN'T IT, YOU AREN'T NOTICING HOW REPETITIVE EVEN SOMETHING LIKE EUROPEAN COMICS SUFFER FROM, YOU'RE JUST BRAIN FRIED BECAUSE YOU EXPECT ACTUAL INNOVATION IN THE SCENES AND STORY TELLING INSTEAD OF THE SAME 3 GENRE STORIES OVER AND OVER.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          What the frick are you even complaining about? The action is clearly legible, well constructed, and has a flow each panel. You sound like a major pseud with such non-criticisms like this.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Thanks for not addressing the actual arguments of my post then projecting your psuedery onto me.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              You never presented an actual argument. You complained about a well-constructed and dynamic page like it's a bad thing and complained that a fricking Noir story has a guy being chased by another with a gun.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >It's always some dude with a small weapons fire revolver chasing the protagonist through a building then the street while the protagonist jumps through the windows, roofs, and cars to dodge the main bad guys storm trooper aim.
          It's a story about a Mafia hitman, this shit is bound to happen by virtue of the type of story it is. The fact you took this single scene and think the entire comic is like this outs you as a moron though that wasn't much in question considering you were unironically posting soijacks before.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You like manga because you have 8th grade syndrome aka Chūnibyō at its finest. Simple as.
      Weebs palate is akin to a fat person gluttony: consumption only meant to satisfy your appetite at the short term. But in the long term is bad for you.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    does anyone have a link to Brüsel?
    got everything but that pic semi rel

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I've got a bunch in this folder: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/rp1e6b1o1due4/Obscure_Cities

      IDW haven't done Brüsel yet, and I'm not sure if they will continue the series, apparently the editor who was in charge of it left the company and the last two volumes have no reference to future volumes. So the version of Brüsel I have is the translation that was done for NBM.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        aww hell yeah homie, thanks so much
        got some shit to read at work now

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    An european comic written by a chilean and drawn by an Argentinian dude.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is there any Euro comic equivalent to David Feiss, as in art style-wise? I’m just curious.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Edika's stuff would be a reasonable start I think

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Thank you. I can see a resemblance

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I am

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >no Yoko Tsuno
    >no Blake & Mortimer
    >no Valerian & Laureline

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Yoko Tsuno
      It's fricking tragic how shit the series is now, an utter zombie.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Well the author is pushing 90, so…

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        stop reading it with issue 16, like I did

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Is Blake and Mortimer good all the way through, or should I not bother after the original author died?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        most of the "new" stories are neither art-wise nor in the storytelling department on par with Jacobs' original work.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    TINTIN
    COLTO MALTESE
    DARK CITIES
    PHILIPPE CAZA

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    talk of speedlines reminds me of boucq

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
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          Anonymous
          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            that was a great little story. loved how clever it was.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous
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              Anonymous
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                Anonymous
              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                fin

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                next page is NSFW:

                [...]

                >BUT SHE'S TEASING ME, MY WORD! >OUHLALALALA, HOLD ME BACK OR I'LL MAKE A MESS!!!
                >FINALLY, WHAT!?? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?
                >BITCH!!!

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                In that case, enfin is more of a note of exasperation rather than actually 'finally', kind of like Gaston Lagaffe's m'enfin.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >no otomo without french comic books
                >no modern shonen without otomo
                Europeans are the GOAT

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Europe Comics willnever touch the rest of the Jérôme Moucherot albums
      It fricking hurts

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    European comic's heydays were in the 1970s and 1980s. It crashed due to too many albums being released that the market couldn't absorb. Plus all the major magazines died: PILOTE, Pif gadget, L'echo des Savanes, METAL HURLANT, etc.
    European comics now resemble American trash more and more with very little 1$ worth bothering over.

    This said:
    Jean moebius Giraud, Philippe Druillet, CAZA, Liberatore, Serpieri, Mathias Shulteiss, Enki Bilal, Tardi, Alphonso Font, Gotlib, Bretcher, Mandryka, FRED, beat ANY American or manga hands down

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You can bring up a crop of artists from almost any country that equals most of those names, especially from the US and Japan.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        WHO? Franki Miller? Kirby? Ditko? All They have ever done is generic capshit crap for the big 2. Cant ever compare.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Franki's Sin City is SO bad, it borders on a parody.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Franki's Sin City is SO bad, it borders on a parody.

          >Franki
          This is a samegay isn't it?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          They're alright, but not the greatest.

          [...]
          >Franki
          This is a samegay isn't it?

          Has to be.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This is kind of true, overproduction is still a massive problem and it's harder than ever to make a living as a BD author/artist.

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Igor Baranko is pretty good

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      2nd page

      i really like that, kind of reminds me of captain underpants

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    2nd page

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    more Baranko

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Enki Bilal's Exterminator17 published 1974

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Frankie's Ronin

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    oh, lookie, he also stole from Lone Wolf and Cub!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Alita artist traced frank miller art

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        show me

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          https://mendelpalace.tumblr.com/post/63825853288/royalboiler-frank-miller-ninjas-overlaid-on-a

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            nice, saving that!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I think you need to learn the difference between homage and theft.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Brussli: Way of the Dragon Boy storytime: https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/135064126/
    was more fun than the art would suggest; it starts with a death

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