My friends, every once in a while there’s something that’s so absolutely special and illuminating (even if it comes from the ‘Evil Empire’), that I feel like it’s STILL worth sharing, in the clean spirit of what this community aims for, which in my mind reaches above such temporal, petty matters. Content over Style. Truth over Attitude.
[Franco-Belgian Comics] The rise and fall of Pilote, a mythical magazine. How a team of legends tore itself apart. And how Franco-Belgian comics evolved through the years, from stories for children to crass provocation.
I write because I feel a compulsion. Sometimes it is because a subject is fun and I want to share it. Other times it is because my imagination runs over and I have to get it out.
Fittingly, I write today to pay my respects to the man who may be responsible for my imagination going wild.
This is about a very specific era of French-Belgian comics. It’s about a magazine, who would see artists shape their legends through it. It’s about one person who, among legends in the field, achieved mythical status. It’s about another well-known person, if perhaps less so, who shaped my sense of humor more than anyone else.
It’s about a lot of things. But mostly, it’s about funny drawings.
A perfect world born of imagination:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DePr_3N7rpI
This is ABSOLUTELY one of the greatest fan-made contributions ever to BD:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/1rpxhpl/francobelgian_comics_the_rise_and_fall_of_pilote/
Just read a little, and you’ll see. That must be over two-dozen visual examples, plus all that beloved info. Better yet, specifically examining the whole “Gotlib vs. Goscinny” thing!
Oh, that’s cool. I barely know the rules, myself.