As I recall, the Paperino (Donald Duck) stories were always better than the Topolino (Mickey Mouse) ones.
Indeed! Mickey Mouse Stories were most of the time just classic crime stories with Mickey as the investigator, which simply gets old after a few times. Donald on the other hand is a bit like Homer Simpson, you just can´t help but feel his troubles and feel sympathy for the kind-hearted underdog, especially considering how he is treated by his billionaire uncle.
There’s nothing quite like a good Paperino freak-out authored in Italian
That must be even more funny! There is probably no better language for it!
Plus they came up with new characters like Paperinik.
In the german version his name is Phantomias. That name sounds like it was inspired by Fantômas, which is weird because Fantômas was, as you might know not a hero but on the contrary, the first supervillain in pop culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantômas
They have been a huge thing in Germany too for decades now, called Lustige Taschenbücher aka LTB. I had a nice collection as a kid but it somehow got lost when I moved from Austria to Germany once more, just as my Asterix and Lucky Luke collections T_T
I usually find these ‘side-by-sides’ not too terribly interesting
In this case a side by side was very justified. I enjoyed watching it, thanks for posting!
Sorry for being unresponsive for a week, I have not been very fit mentally in the last days.
Man… every single day since the election, I shake my head and spend time thinking ‘Americans, you had one job…’ It’s just unreal.
Yup, same here, WTF!
So yeah, I haven’t been truly depressed for quite a few years, but some of these recent days have been kind of brutal.
I switched to trying to mostly ignore world politics now, the israel/palestine topic was too much for empathic me already and I just can´t handle Trump. Lately I accidentally glimpsed he is already planning use of the military and concentration camps for mass deportations ...
I really don´t feel able to handle emotionally what is happening, so I suppress most of my feelings about it now.
ASAP I’ll have to get back on my meds, which unfortunately give me side-effects, but oh well.
I´m sorry, maybe there are other compatible meds that have less side effects?
Sorry for being unresponsive for a week, I have not been very fit mentally in the last days.
Man… every single day since the election, I shake my head and spend time thinking ‘Americans, you had one job…’ It’s just unreal.
Yup, same here, WTF!
So yeah, I haven’t been truly depressed for quite a few years, but some of these recent days have been kind of brutal.
I switched to trying to mostly ignore world politics now, the israel/palestine topic was too much for empathic me already and I just can´t handle Trump. Lately I accidentally glimpsed he is already planning use of the military and concentration camps for mass deportations ...
I really don´t feel able to handle emotionally what is happening, so I suppress most of my feelings about it now.
ASAP I’ll have to get back on my meds, which unfortunately give me side-effects, but oh well.
I´m sorry, maybe there are other compatible meds that have less side effects?
Animal Farm (and it's variations) are a long time favorite of mine. The strong anti authoritarian message of the book will never loose it's significance it seems. A fact that is very much emphasized by the current socio-political development in the US.
I don´t want to live on this planet anymore.
Dare I ask what happened to to her sister Tove…?
My little cutie was very ill and died much too young, I miss her every day. Let´s not talk about it any more.
Great find, I had never seen this before!
Metal Hurlant returns from Humanoids with a Kickstarter
>Metal Hurlant, the French SF/Fantasy magazine that inspired the US Heavy Metal, is coming back as a quarterly magazine, The Wrap reports. Humanoids will soon launch a Kickstarter to bring Metal Hurlant to the US as a quarterly anthology (...) Read the full article here.
I wish I’d read Dune recently, but it’s been some years, and everything Dune-related sort of blends together in my mind in to an amorphous fog. That’s based on reading books 1-4, I think. They weren’t hard to read for me, but they contained so many ideas and content that I feel I’d almost need an academic course to put everything in perspective and examine the various themes properly.
Absolutely, I reread Dune every few years and Frank Herberts´s style and ideas impress me every time again.
I was never really interested in SW but I have been watching ST from an early age. ST ist the perfect stuff to run when I just want to chill, it almost became a kind of screensaver for me.
I really like the Pratt and Moebius panels! Is the Pratt panel from Corto Maltese? I agree, don´t think there is the one Arzach, the guy seems to exist in a lot of timelines/universes. As always reading your commentary on the images was a pleasure.
I´m sorry to hear that and hope he will pay on time. Maybe he has mental issues that keep him from doing it?
I enjoyed reading it, appreciated the weird humor and the ugliness.
Chirox
Did you just imply the existence of ... thinking machines?!?!
Haha, that was a bit of a wacky post above.
I liked it!
Yesterday I finished off a huge job on Calvin’s apartment
I am happy you made it on time, well done!
treated myself to some of his fine booze Oh, my head…
lol
Anyway, yeah, I think you have the spirit of scanlation. Other definitions you’ll find online. It’s a bit of a touchy subject, as we don’t want to take away proper royalties to the creators, you know? Part of why we say ‘extracts are fine, but no pirated links!’ in the sidebar.
Im am undecided in the matter, I want artists to get every penny they deserve for their work. On the other hand, I think most people who pirate graphic novels do it because otherwise they simply could not afford reading them. At the same time people who can afford buying graphic novels will often pirate and then buy the stuff they like, so pirating can even increase sales.
Anyway, I’m not sure if I’m fully “back” yet, but we’ll see.
No pressure mate, take your time.
I really appreciate your focus on Jodo’s Dune series lately
Thank you, happy that you like it!
and in any case, there’s a HUGE archive of posts here for anyone wanting more EGN+ content! :D
Exactly! Just think of our first few months streak for example. I think I have to go back sometime and look at all those cool posts! :D
Designs for the martial arts training dummy in Dune
The mechanical training dummy in Dune always fascinated me. When I read Dune as a kid, the scene on Caladan in which Paul´s training dummy is described, very much defined Paul as a character for me. It made clear that he did not grow up like a normal child but instead lived under constant threat of being assassinated, always preparing to be ready and fight for his live to his best ability. Not much later, shortly after their arrival on Dune, the scene with the hunter seeker happens and confirms this impression.
I found these three designs for the dummy on https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Dune_Wiki
The left and middle image are pretty close to the design described in the book if I remember correctly. While the left image shows the dummy in action, with lots of different rotating, hacking and stabbing blades, the middle image shows the dummy in standby, with retracted blades. Both designs were made for the movie adaption by Lynch.
The right image is an alternative approach, deviating from the design described in the book but in a way that fits canon well in my opinion. Suspensors are common tech in the Dune universe, just think of the omnipresent glowglobes that light so many scenes in the story. Therefore, sticking a suspensorglobe into a traing dummy seems like a pretty obvious thing to do. The person standing next to the "Suspensor Drone" is Gurney Halleck. The art is by Mark Zug, created for the Dune Collectible Card Game by Last Unicorn Games.
Das erste Buch ist ausreichend, mehr geht immer wenn du dann möchtest :)
Oh, sehr interessant! Das ist sogar noch eine andere Version des Bildes, der Blickwinkel ist ca. 45° nach vorne gedreht. Das Bild aus dem Script ist hingegen eine Seitenansicht aus dem 90° Winkel. Beim Betrachten wird mir mal wieder klar wie virtuos Giger organische und technische Strukturen verschmelzen lässt!
Great to have you back!
I also never heard the term scanlation before, so here is what I could find out just now. Scanlation is well known in the manga community, meaning fans making translations using a scanner and the results getting distributed digitally, usually with permission of the artist. However, there seems to have developed a practice of not just translating but also modifying the content to a degree, just look at page 2 of the third link you posted: https://web.yongsai.net/comics/gaston-lagaffe/gaffes-and-gadgets/2
Ja, genau diese Ausgabe! Bis auf den ersten Teil, den ich leider mal jemand geliehen habe, ist sie vollständig :) Falls du Dune bisher nicht auf englisch gelesen hast, ich empfehle es dir, Herbert schreibt richtig gut und einiges davon ist bei der Übersetzung verloren gegangen.
Contribution for the Artbook: Edge II - Les samourais du futur - Moebius 2007, digital
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/moebius_giraud_study/comments/1ansi8c/moebius_digital_contribution_for_the_artbook_edge/
Harkonnen Castle - H.R. Giger for Jodo´s Dune
H.R. Giger, the famous creator of the Xenomorph in the science fiction classic ALIEN, was also part of the all star team that worked on Jodo's Dune. The enclosed design of the castle fits perfectly with the description of Harko City in the books, which is probably just a happy coincidence. The elongated back of the head is an obvious resemblance to the aforementioned Xenomorph.
Jodorowsky's Dune Uncovered - A deep dive into the rare script of Jodorowsky´s Dune
Since the thread got upvotes by the majority but only comments from a few party poopers who were obviously not appreciating me sharing this great find with you all, I decided to lock it. I just don´t have the nerve for that kind of shit today.
Hej hej, fellow comic art enthusiasts! I am quite excited to show to you what I just found. While searching for a good digital copy of Jodorowsky´s legendary Dune script, I stumbled upon this incredible analysis of the script, made by the fine people of www.duneinfo.com. It seems to contain the full or at least a big part of the script (in varying image quality) and does a great job at summarizing Jodo´s version of the story en détail. The article presents an insight into this mystical project, which I and probably many of you, have never had before, enjoy! www.duneinfo.com/unseen/jodorowskys-dune-uncovered
I will keep posting selected images from the script, in the future. Here´s an example:
Duncan Idaho & Gurney Halleck - Character design draft for Jodorowsky´s unrealized Dune movie adaption - Moebius, circa 1975
Nice use of historical design elements imo, they also both look like hippies, lol. I wonder why he made Gurney so short though. As far as I remember he was never called short in the books, right?
Sign the petition to renew Scavenger's Reign for a second season on Netflix
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You NEED to watch Scavengers Reign on Netflix (especially if you like Moebius!)
This is the best sci-fi I have seen for years, and I do not mean animated sci-fi but sci-fi in general! The beautiful artistic style of the show is heavily inspired by the art of Moebius, Hayao Miyazaki, Philippe Druillet and Alexandro Jodorowsky and also references such beloved classics as AKIRA, ALIEN and many more. Please watch it on Netflix if you can, it will increase the chance of a second season of this masterpiece getting produced. The ones of you who have already watched it, what do you think?
Chninkel - Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosiński - german collectors edition by Splitter
I had almost forgotten about this gem, after reading it decades ago as a kid. In hindsight, Chninkel had a strong impact on my developing love for comics, quite comparable to The Incal and AKIRA. While the drawings are not as perfect as the work of the grandmasters Moebius and Otomo, the narrative of Chninkel hits even harder imo. Twelve year old me was especially triggered by the oppression and injustice of the scenario and I still remember being stunned by the hard struggle the little protagonist has to endure. NEVER GIVE UP LITTLE CHNINKEL!
RESOLVED !(image_url) not working anymore?
I used to regularly put images in comments by using ![](). Suddenly that does not work anymore, help!
It stopped working for me (and also another user) a few days ago. Until I post the comment it is fine but when I post it, the url of the image is getting automatically changed into a format that does not work.
Before posting it looks like this:
However, posting it changes the url into this (non working) url
I will post the same image as a comment in this thread from two different accounts to illustrate.
How did this suddenly change, I never had problems posting images in comments before?
What can I do to fix this? I like posting images in comments and would be very happy if I could go back to it?
Character design for the movie Willow, Nr 6 (unused) - by Mœbius, 1988
Copyright and Trademark 1988 Lucasfilm, Ltd
