Georges Beuville & Antoine de Saint-Exupery I

from Revue Icare, a six issue series on St-X - Nos 69, 71, 75, 78, 84, 96 - 1974-1981 - 

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Icare n°69, 71, 75, 78, 84 et 96 parus entre 1974 et 1981

Icare n°69, 71, 75, 78, 84 et 96 parus entre 1974 et 1981

Icare n°69, 71, 75, 78, 84 et 96 parus entre 1974 et 1981

Icare n°69, 71, 75, 78, 84 et 96 parus entre 1974 et 1981

Icare n°69, 71, 75, 78, 84 et 96 parus entre 1974 et 1981

Icare n°69, 71, 75, 78, 84 et 96 parus entre 1974 et 1981

Brinton Turkle The Elves and the Shoemaker 2

As promised, some more of the superlative artistry of Brinton Turkle -.this from The Elves and the Shoemaker, Scholastic Book Services, 1975

Mahler & Manga

Some illustration I came across for Symphony No. 3 - it perfectly captures the message of the piece... just someone on youtube who made these cool images - no idea who the illustrator is - Mahler Symphonic Manga Madness

Paul Gillon Jeremie

Another book I picked up at that rare collecting blowout was Paul Gillon's Jeremie book - he does the whole Alex Raymond Rip Kirby style so good - he makes it look way too easy... this story has pirates!

Victor de la Fuente - Haxtur - Vercingetorix

Here's some images from two books by the great Victor de la Fuente - I'm don't really do much serious collecting - so amazingly, I scored these two books in a weird way - I found the first book in a Salvation Army store, and happy with this cool find, I happen to pass by a garage sale, and there was the second book - from the legendary 'Histoire de la France en BD' series, within 15 minutes, I filled a huge gap in my collection - I was on fire that day, mostdef...

Fanfan La Tulipe - Gaty & Nortier

 

this a mid-70s book by PIF publishers - by the same team who did the Robin Hood feature. Brillant inking by Nortier and Gaty does his thing pretty good, too... This is called "The Night of the Beaver" by Editions Kangourou. This feature actually had a decent 10-year run and Editions Topinambourg reprinted the whole deal recently - cool.

Brinton Turkle - The Elves and the Shoemaker 1

http://childrensatheneum.blogspot.ca/2009/06/illustrator-of-week-brinton-turkle.html

Popped my Cork

 

This is just a random clipping that  I fgured that I had better scan because I keep misplacing it - nice pen work - no idea who the artist is...

The Golden Fleecing - Uncle Scrooge - Carl Barks

'The Golden Fleecing' by Carl Barks from Uncle Scrooge #12 - a take on the Greek Argonautica myth - I don't know if this is considered a classic, although I checked the very well-documented fan sites and it's apparently quite popular - but it isn't quite the usual visit to exotic, mysterious ancient civilisation scenario -




Half of the story is spent in Duckburg with lots of cloak and dagger stuff - just setting up the intrigue - Despite the unusual plotting, page by page, Barks is in fine form - each panel is a model in storytelling efficiency, suspense, dynamics.


So instead of Harpies, we have Larkies (heh) - they sort of steal the show actually, possibly to the detriment of the story as a whole - Huey, Duey, and Louie are totally on the ball as usual, with their freaky Junior Woodchuck Handbook, they're unstoppable - they figure everything out. No comment really necessary, the thing is, the storytelling is so seamless, all you have to do is look at each panel, that says it all - notice how every panel has no more or no less than is necessary to keep the plot moving, and notice how every panel contains an element of suspense that leads to the next one.... (apologies for the small image samples).

Barks can get pretty wacky, surreal, and edgy at times - and he really goes to town with these Larkies - with this ten-page psycho cook-off from hell sequence - they take a fiendish delight in preparing the most nauseating dishes! Apparently his editor, referring to this sequence, asked him to 'tone it down'... heh... Notice the fairly subtle camera movement in the above sequence... superb.

So they do finally face the dragon guarding the Golden Fleece- really not much reference to the original story, but quite fun and clever - I don't think that this story has the depth and sense of nostalgia that some other Scrooge classics have, although you could argue that he does tap into to some of the Freudian psychological structures inherent in Greek mythology and fairy tales...


Images copyright the Walt Disney Company - used for purposes of didactic study

stuff -
see interesting article on this story:

https://arche-arc.blogspot.com/2016/03/mythcomics-golden-fleecing-uncle.html

Montreal Comicon!

It had a great lineup (Darwyn Cooke, Mike Mignola, Tim Sale, Ty Templeton, Matteo Scalera, Frank Cho, Dan Parent, and tons more...just crazy)

The legendary Jim Starlin. Warm, friendly, open, down-to-earth, generous, a true gentleman. Still going strong, he's actually got many new pots cookin' on the stove...

Becky Cloonan, doing her thing. She's super nice, and one of the top new talents today....

Lyonel Feininger Exhibition

 the Feininger exhibit here in Montreal - http://www.mmfa.qc.ca/media/feininger/index_new_en.sn
I know him from his cartoon work - the Kinder Kids and Wee Willie Winkie are awesome -  a major fine arts figure he was -

 Unfortunately, the security guards were exceptionally diligent that night - so I only managed a few furtive pictures before they pounced  - my apologizes for my lousy clandestine picture taking skills - this is the entrance - nice entrance

A blurred photo taken on the sly, below is a clearer shot -  Feininger carved these freaky wooden toys for his children, full of cartoony, art deco stuff - really interesting stuff-  best dad ever!

 They had about 10 big Sunday cartoon pages from the Chicago Tribune - beautiful stuff - no original pages unfortunately - but above is a sample of a few character designs from his strip work - originals in pen and ink and colored in crayon - nice stuff - they also featured quite a bit of work from his illustration period, mainly stuff from German humour magazines - great stuff -

John William Waterhouse Exhibition - Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

So yeah, the euro Waterhouse exhibit came to Montreal! A dream come true.... I can't even begin to say how amazing it was - about 50 pieces, mostly well-known - there were only missing about a dozen classic pieces...

Gift store display

Ginormous banner!

Alfonso Font - Jules Verne- The Master of the World - Pif 2

Alfonso Font - Jules Verne- The Master of the World - Pif 1

http://lambiek.net/artists/f/font_alfonso.htm

Alfonso Font - I recently stumbled across an old issue of Pif the dog. It's a 14-page adaptation of a Jules Verne novel, The Master of the World. (I was into the Jules Verne as young'n - cool stuff - Captain Nemo and all that... Science-Fiction at the time they were written, but more like steampunk, now - although I'm not a fan of compression i.e. cramming 200 pages of novel into a 14-page comic strip

Gaty - Lucien Nortier - Robin Hood 2

Gaty - Lucien Nortier - Robin Hood 1

I have this book, The Robin Hood Adventure Magazine from 1974, which reprints mid-60's strips by Gaty and Lucien Nortier -

Gaty

http://lambiek.net/artists/g/gaty.htm

Nortier

http://lecturederaymond.over-blog.com/article-24359693.html 

Regis Loisel - Peter Pan

- it's from Peter Pan, vol. 2, 3, or 4 - by Regis Loisel - he wins a lot of awards - and he worked on Mulan and Atlantis - 

(it's about time I start taking care of legal stuff - this page is copyrighted by either Regis Loisel or Editions Vents d'ouest - use is for purely cultural edification, didactic aesthetic expository purposes.) 

< stuff - The crucifiction sketch a few posts back is copied from Hendrick Goltzius http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/goltzius/index.html < http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/golt/hd_golt.htm < and they had a wonderful painting by Gabriel von Max http://www.iment.com/maida/family/mother/vicars/gabrielmax.htm

Paul Cuvelier - L'épisode Wapi et le triangle d'or

The good Tinkerbell artist

There's this artist who does Disney merch and book illustrations. Real good. Name? Does anyone know?

Jijé Joseph Gillain Milton Caniff influence

biography of Jijé - here's an interesting bit - he talks about when he started using a brush for inking - but I think what he really means is Caniff-style inking - in fact comparing the two pages (he did 2 versions of a Don Bosco biography, an earlier version and another in his more mature style) - I think you can see that he did quite a study of Caniff's work and this jazzed his work in many good ways.