Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2017 10:54:31 GMT
Being from Europe, well yes, a lot!
I have lots of stuff from the Europeans. Tintin, Asterix (my favorite), spirou, lucky Luke (Wich is a cowboy lol),Adele Blanc sec (God I love these), Corto Maltese and many other stand alone including albums from Milo manara, moebius, Hugo Pratt (that wrote Corto Maltese), Wich are adult oriented with manara having a lot of erotic stuff that it's unbelievable like the click series.
Many of these have several movie and cartoon incarnations, and theme parks and many have new albums coming out to this day.
The thing is except maybe Britain, Europe doesn't have the comic industry like the states with comics being sold each month in a serialized fashion. Most of them come whenever the author finish it and it's a whole story, in a proper book form called albums. So sometimes you wait years for the next installment and for some like asterix, the most popular it gets full honors of a major book coming out. Displayed at book stores, it tops book sales, reviews by book critics. They have hardcover edition or paperback. It's for all matters a book that happens to have drawings inside. It's a very, very different way of doing things, not worse or better just different.
For me the us and Europe ways of doing things always coexisted. I loved when a new book came out at the stands and loved when it came out at the bookstore. (Only when I was a grown man did we have dedicated comic stores)
I have lots of stuff from the Europeans. Tintin, Asterix (my favorite), spirou, lucky Luke (Wich is a cowboy lol),Adele Blanc sec (God I love these), Corto Maltese and many other stand alone including albums from Milo manara, moebius, Hugo Pratt (that wrote Corto Maltese), Wich are adult oriented with manara having a lot of erotic stuff that it's unbelievable like the click series.
Many of these have several movie and cartoon incarnations, and theme parks and many have new albums coming out to this day.
The thing is except maybe Britain, Europe doesn't have the comic industry like the states with comics being sold each month in a serialized fashion. Most of them come whenever the author finish it and it's a whole story, in a proper book form called albums. So sometimes you wait years for the next installment and for some like asterix, the most popular it gets full honors of a major book coming out. Displayed at book stores, it tops book sales, reviews by book critics. They have hardcover edition or paperback. It's for all matters a book that happens to have drawings inside. It's a very, very different way of doing things, not worse or better just different.
For me the us and Europe ways of doing things always coexisted. I loved when a new book came out at the stands and loved when it came out at the bookstore. (Only when I was a grown man did we have dedicated comic stores)