Hello !

Christmas is coming so I would like to offer a comic to a girl. The problem is that I do not read a lot of comics, I do not have enough knowledge about it so I would need help please.

She loves superheroes and antiheroes. I know she read Marvel comics and DC comics. She also read The Legend of Kora. She loved watching Arcane. Her favourite game is Cyberpunk. She likes adventure stuff too, she wanted to watch Lara Croft that came out recently on Netflix and she liked Uncharted games. She likes history too like Greek mythology, Nordic one and Asian culture a little too among other things. She liked Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Here is a mix of her tastes. I hope it could help you.

Then, I personally have some criterias ideally. Her native language is Spanish so it would be great if the comic can be bought written in this language. Otherwise, she also understands English. And finally, I would like to be sure she does not have the comic. I want to make her discover something so surely not the main superheroes series because I am quite sure she knows it. And I would like to buy the first volume to be sure that she could understand the series.

But honestly, I am open to every suggestion. I just want to find something that she could like. It could include mangas too.

Thank you a lot for the possible help and sorry for the potential mistakes.

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.

Hello,

Any suggestions on a gift for a 10 year old who enjoys making graphic novels? They enjoy both drawing but possibly more the story development part.

Any thoughts at all, whether it's a special pen or a specific book, are welcome!

Thank you.

EDIT: User babooso got it right on the money, it's Laïyna by Pierre Dubois and René Hausman.

Thank you everyone who helped, it means a lot to me! Hope you all have lovely weekends.

Hello!

I hope this subreddit might be able to help me, as I am in a sticky pickle trying to remember the name of a comic/visual novel. I read it as a young teen at the library in the early-mid 2000's. I'm Swedish and read the comic in Swedish, however, I know it was not by a Swedish or American creator.

I remember the story being about a girl who was raised by fairies/gnomes, with a "wildman" type of character as well. I believe he might have been killed by humans, and everyone migrates at the end... I only ever saw and read the first volume, I'm unsure if it's a series or not.

The art style was highly detailed, in an almost muddy sort of way? The colours were pretty dark, too. The title was also very short and it might have started with A or S???

I really do hope I can get any kind of clue as to what comic this was. I always wanted to know what happened after the end, where everyone went... So here's to hoping!

Hiya!

I make a project about Franco-Belgian comics therefore I did the the survey to gather the information. Please, if you have free time, take the test. I will be every grateful:)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScRFtQCGCT2Rz0doauOcm8mdhqw61b5BGLHeMuFMqcpmAw1dQ/viewform

I'm thinking of, finally, reading Corto Maltse, but I'm very confused about the order in which the storeis were published, and Wikipedia isn't much of a help on that front. Could anyone here help me figure out what's the best reading order/the publication order of the series?

Cover of the magazine from the Franco-Belgian Cococinel series, all produced in France and Belgium. It was a comic strip accompanied by activities from Franco-Belgian cartooning.

I wanted to ask for information about the festival. I am an Italian resident citizen and I would like to participate in the signing of the masters Makoto Yukimura and Kamome Shirahama, can I participate without problems? I also wanted to ask if they told us the methods to participate in their signing and when they will be held so I can organize myself since I am a bit far away. Thanks in advance for the answer and have a nice day

Hello community,

I have a few celluloid animation cels from the show La Bande à Bédé (a program from the '80s on Antenne 2). My project is to document these cels. However, I have two cels with drawings that I haven’t been able to find any trace of in the show (I’ve watched all the episodes at the National Audiovisual Institute). I’ve also been unable to identify the character or the artist through my internet research. So, I’m reaching out to you, brave knights, for help.

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I'm looking for a book I vaguely remember. I came across it in a european library sometime between 2000 and 2010. The title is something like "Who Wants the (Teddy) Bear's Skin?" The cover features the face of a man (disturbing), holding a scalpel near his head. The style resembles a painting, and the image is unsettling, with strange colors. There might be traces of blood. The background behind the man could be mirrors covered in blood. He might be a surgeon. As for the story, I think it’s about a little boy being chased by this man who wants to tear the skin off his teddy bear. It takes place in his dream, so everything isn’t rational, adding a supernatural touch.

French:

Je cherche un livre dont j'ai un vague souvenir. Je l'ai découvert dans une bibliothèque européenne ça devait être entre les années 2000-2010. Le titre est qqch comme "Qui veut la peau du nounours ?" La couverture représente le visage d'un homme (inquiétant), il tient un scalpel dans sa main à hauteur de sa tête. C'est dans un style peinture, l'image met mal à l'aise, les couleurs sont bizarres. Il y a peut-être des traces de sang. Le fond derrière l'homme est peut-être des miroirs couverts de sang. C'est peut-être un chirurgien. Pour ce qui est de l'histoire, je crois que c'est un petit garçon poursuivi par cet homme qui veut arracher la peau de son ours en peluche. Ça se passe dans son rêve donc tout n'est pas rationnel et ça apporte une dose de surnaturel.

This is an article from NZZ (New Zurich Newspaper). If you can't read german, use a translator of your choice.

Zep had big success with his comic "Titeuf". He then bought a Villa in the city of Geneva, renovated and rearranged the rooms, then continued with drawing Comics (and making music). Now he wants to sell the thing to the city of Geneva. The City is interested, because there is nothing like this in the area, but they don't really know what they should do with it... (And of course the one politician who lives in the neighborhood wants to make some sort of a public art gallery out of it, I wonder why)

Hello everyone,

I honestly don't know if I'm posting on the right sub: I'd like to buy an original comic strip for my partner, who's a big fan of comics and Pierre-Denis Goux in particular. The problem is that his work disappears quite quickly from ‘physical’ galleries, so I find myself looking on the internet. There's one work I'm really interested in at the moment. The photos include details of the signature and the comic strip's number.

My problem is this: I honestly don't have much experience in this field. The work is expensive, and I'd like to avoid... well, just getting ripped off. Have any of you already used these sites, and if so, would you have any advice?

My message is probably far too vague, I'm sorry: it's as a complete beginner to this type of exchange that I've come to ask for help. Good day to you all!

it's a form of respect, appreciation and admiration for this great french author

it's a group of motards who do ... incredible things! it's extremely funny, with a nice style, talks about bikes... ok the humour is french, but it's a good thing!

Hello, I'm reading "la croisière des oubliés" 1975 ( "The cruise of the lost souls" in English ) and there is a panel drawn by someone else, looks like Tardi but I'm not sure. I searched on Google but it didn't give me anything. Any ideas?

I have a question for any fans of Soda by Tome. I am slowly trying to learn French and use bd’s to help. I’m collecting the Franco-Belgian series Soda but I’m confused by the numbering. After volume 12, Code Apocalypse, the next volume appeared about 9 years later as volume 13, Resurrection, published in 2014. It was followed in 2023 by “Le Pasteur Sanglant” which didn’t use a number. The 2024 reprint of Resurrection now is listed as 1/2, with a new book having just been released in 2024, “Révélations”, which is numbered as 2/2 and is a sequel to Resurrection. However sites like BDTheque say that “Le Pasteur Sanglant” comes with this disclaimer:

Info édition : Le tome 13, "Résurrection", ne sera plus publié sous ce numéro, et sur les sites de référencement ce tome, "Le Pasteur sanglant", volontairement non numéroté par les auteurs, est présenté comme un tome 13, d'où la numérotation ici. "Résurrection" n'apparaît pas dans la liste des tomes de la série à l'intérieur de l'album.

Which states basically that Le Pasteur Sanglant is considered the new official number 13, and Resurrection doesn’t appear as a volume listed in the series printed inside. It has also been published in the grand format, the larger style books while both 1/2 and 2/2 are only printed in normal format, making them stand out as much smaller than the rest of the reprinted series.

Does anyone have a little more insight as to what is going on with these books in this series? Thanks!

I live in Greece and i have read a couple storys(like horror paradise, chess of death and his origin) but i need more. So where can i read and/or buy dylan dog comics(digital or physical) preferably in english and greek and of course i'm refering to legal ways and NOT ILLIGAL ways, i sure hope that no one sujests any piracy site, i'd "really", "really", "realy" "hate" that.

p.s thank you!!!

I know it's moot cause there's no dialogue in it, but are there any recent, official releases of Arzach available internationally? Beyond just grabbing the cheapest item off Amazon, I mean.

Apparently some tiktok genius tried to cancel this?

Hey guys, so I am Greek first if all so I have a familiarity so to say? I only know of asterix from bd but it’s not really my taste. I am a huge American comics fan and I started reading comics last year. Seing I want to branch out to other works (ok maybe not manga never could get past that style) I heard bd has some golden hidden gems if stories and I was wondering if you guys have any recommendations for bd. Note my main tastes so far are dc black label books (fables which I started recently is great) and more serious superhero stories like alias and Daredevil stories in general. Noir stuff would be great as I heard bd has a lot of it. So yea any possible good bd recs for a starter?