Welcome to the monthly r/bandedessinee community thread!

A place to share the European comics you have been reading. What do you think of them? Would you recommend them?

You can ask any and all questions relating to European comics: general or specific BD recommendations, questions about authors, genres, or comic history.

If you are looking for comic recommendations you will get better responses if you let us know what genres, authors, artists, and other comics you've enjoyed before.

Do European countries such as Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands also have large comic book industries?

Am seeking a comprehensive palette for a lengthy project and cannot find one on line anywhere.

Suggestions? Ideas? HELP?!

This is confusing me as I’m researching making my own BD style album. It’s like A3 (which is easy to get for me) but wider? Can anyone help with this.

I liked this image at Musée de la BD in Angoulême but the poster was missing the info as they were in the process of redecorating the venue. I asked the staff but they didn't know. Maybe you can help? Who's the artist?

https://preview.redd.it/05dzbp8dtkwd1.jpg?width=996&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ddd4c3fa611a21dfb7a1374e9d77deb56de0b0b

Hey everyone!

As a kid I once found a comic book in a pile of thrown away books. The cover was torn away, so I don't know the name of the book or the author. The book contained two comedy stories.

The first was about two explorers who survived a sea storm. They were drifting along the sea breaking the 4th wall on a log until arriving to a lost virgin land where animals could talk. The humor was built around how stupid and ignorant they both were. I clearly remember 2 episodes from the story. They met an antilope, so they considered that because there is an ANTIlope, there also should be a regular lope. And the other was about them investingating a case of a choker in the jungle along with a giant python who was choking animals right behing their backs.

The second story was about a fat short loser superhero with a giant nose and glasses. Can't remember much of it, in addition pages from there were torn out, but there was a fuss around him having his first bristle and going to a barber for the first time. There was also something about him being a virgin or trying to find a woman, but I am not sure about that.

The book was translated into Russian, but I assume the book was originally French, judging by several signatures under the illustrations. Or maybe it's my memory decivong me. I tried to Google the book dozens of times but with no luck.

I picked up the first volume of this in France, probably 15ish years ago.

Plot was something along the lines of an anthropomorphic bear character discovers a portal in a cave, falls in and is taken to another world, where many of the people are ant-like. I remember the main ant having an animal companion that was like a large creature with tentacles for a mouth. Beyond that I don't remember much of the plat

The comic has pretty violent and had some adult themes, I remember. I would love to find it and try reading the whole series if anyone has idea what I'm talking about.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Solved! It is Aberzen. Linked below. Thanks!

Hey guys,

This is a topic I have been thinking about but I'm not quite clear.

I'd like to get more clarification. It not the same if X amount of people in France know about Comics as X amount in the US. Since the population in the US is bigger even if X amount knows about comics they might still be a minority group.

Comic books, Graphic Novels, BDs, whatever.

It's a very open and subjective question, I know. Something that has had a French translation but never English would also be appreciated.

Merci in advance...

Which series rogues gallery is comparable to Batman, Spider-man or the Flash?

BD like Asterix are well known by millions in all europe and outside. so the question is:why lego never did such a thing for BD but for fortnite yes?!

Gonna keep my relationship with the series short: it's one of the comic series that has impacted my life the most.

I have the privilege of being fairly fluently bilingual, native tongue being french, but have been learning english since kindergarten. In trying to share this comic series with a friend, I started translating large portions of some of my favourite issues for him, and am now wondering if there is some sort of community effort to get the whole series translated thatI could contribute to? I'm very familiar with the ~12 or so published through Alaxis Press/IDW, and I know that a fan effort like mine would not be anywhere near professional... but I feel it would be helpful nevertheless?

So yeah, let me know if there's somewhere I should look towards to help!

Welcome to the monthly r/bandedessinee community thread!

A place to share the European comics you have been reading. What do you think of them? Would you recommend them?

You can ask any and all questions relating to European comics: general or specific BD recommendations, questions about authors, genres, or comic history.

If you are looking for comic recommendations you will get better responses if you let us know what genres, authors, artists, and other comics you've enjoyed before.

Extreme longshot BUT does anyone here know the relationship between "Droles de manchots" by Jean-Luc and Philippe Coudray, and "Les manchots sont de sacres pingouins"? Is Droles a completely separate book, or is it contained in the later book Les Manchots? Did they just make two different books of penguin jokes?

Asking for a friend

I'm looking for the title of a comic series published in the 70s in the german comic magazine Zack (maybe Schwermetall, but I don't think so) and I can't find it for the life of me.

It's set in a fantasy world and the main characters are muscular, long-haired, mostly half-naked fighters. Pretty close to Conan the Barbarian (not the detective). As far as I remember, the central character is always trying to get close to a goal (a city, a country - or back to his time/planet?). So lots of fights, but also moral-philosophical dialogs in short form. Many places and people have names that somehow sound Lithuanian (like Kaunas and the like).

Does this ring a bell? Thank you!

Edit: u/elpadrinonegro suggested Andrax and that's the scantily clad hero i was looking for! Thank you all for the suggestions, now I will spend some time on the hunt for it. I hope it still lives up to my expectations.

There seems to be a limited complete edition from 2020, I'll try to get my hands on that.

What are some great French language comic book series from Switzerland, Canada and other French speaking countries?

TL;DR: please help me find a BD like Bob et Bobette that is currently in publication and available in French in Canada.

Hello lovely people of Reddit - this is a big and specific ask, and I would be forever grateful if you could assist me in this quest.

Background: I moved to Belgium when I was a kid in the early 90’s and fell in love with bandes dessinées. I learned French by reading them and credit them with inspiring my appreciation of history, travel, adventure, cultural diversity, reading, creativity and a good story, just to name a few things. I genuinely feel they were foundational to who I’ve become as an adult.

While Bob et Bobetter were my absolute favorites, I also have very fond memories of Astérix & Obelix, Yoko Tsuno, Gaston Lagaffe, Tintin, Spirou & Fantasio, Lucky Luke, and Les Schtroumpfs. And i am probably forgetting more than the ones I remember.

The crux of the problem: I want to feel today the way I felt devouring those comics at the time. Completely captivated and in a happy little bubble. And learning something new by being exposed to interesting subjects.

Here are my blockers:

• most are not currently in publication and there aren’t a lot of French second hand comics available for purchase in Toronto. I know I can buy individual comics online internationally, but when I’ve looked, the shipping costs were as much or more than the BD. I would happily buy a large lot of bandes dessinée, and even looked for some of Bob and Bobette but there simply weren’t any available.
• So that makes me think a better approach would be to find a new BD series to fall in love with that is currently in publication and more easily accessible in Canada wherever French books are sold. (Side note - yay for Astérix still being published!)

The ideal format I’m looking for is:

• similar to Bob and Bobette: a mystery or adventure in a different part of the world in every BD; a mixture of past and future; history and fantasy; science and magic. The adventure was always interesting, but each one was so different that they never felt predictable or repetitive.
• in French (or potentially Spanish if the language is simple, as I’d like to improve my Spanish). Definitely not English.

If you’re still with me: thank you for caring enough to read all this. I would truly appreciate any recommendations you might have.

Hello everyone, and thanks in advance to all those reading this post.

I vaguely, very vaguely remember reading a BD back when I must've been between 6-8 years old. (I'm 31 now if that helps somehow.)
While I only read one tome of that BD and cannot manage to remember the plot, I do remember the design of 3 of the characters.

The main character was a young red-haired girl dressed in jeans and a horizontally striped white and blue t-shirt.

Accompanying her was a witch who was absolutely beautiful (in the eyes of a younger me), who had long bright green hair, wore a long top hat, and had a black dress top as well as a long orange skirt.
Then, there was also a man with black hair and a black beard who always wore a burgundy 3-piece ensemble, and was actually a devil who would hide his red horns and his goat legs behind some kind of illusion magic in his day to day activities.
Both the witch and the devil were friendly to the heroine.

And aside from that, I sadly cannot remember much else. It might've been published by Dupuis, it might've been published by another franco-belgian house.

Again, thanks for reading this, and thank you in advance if you're able to help.

Hey there! I'm searching for some french comics in their original language to practice my reading skills (it worked with Spanish, so...). Possibly older stuff aimed at a younger audience. I tried with Asterix, but the wordplay there makes it tiring for a beginner. Any advice? Bonus points if it's stuff I can find on Amazon (but I can totally scour eBay for older books)

Thanks in advance