This is more of a highbrow graphic novel than a bande dessinée but I love La Horde du Contrevent. And if you like it, you can put the novel on your bucket list for when your French is advanced enough to handle it (it’s a challenging read even for native speakers)
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I’ll keep an eye on it! It’s been fun immersing myself in a language with that’s been entangled with English for so long. I mean, it’s directly responsible for the form that English has today.
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Les Cités Obscures is my favorite BD series
If you want to pick just one from it, I recommend La Tour
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time for my twice-a-decade re-read of the current arc . . .
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This looks great, wonderful contrast of cool and warm palettes from the samples I’m seeing.
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I’m doing this right now too, and I’m actually enjoying it much more this time around. It’s so absurdly dense that it really rewards rereads. I can’t believe it, but I’m actually following the plot!
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I finished On a marché sur la Lune today. I bought these on a lark thinking I wouldn’t enjoy them much as comics. I read almost the whole series in college and I figured I had moved on. I only got them because I spotted them used for $2 a pop and I wanted to practice French.
Well, now I’m reminded of how easily it was to get sucked in and now I have an itch to grab a few more. This volume is more exciting than the previous and there’s a great visual gag where Dupont and Dupond endlessly grow multicolored hair. I could keep going.
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Thinking about this poll again. Glad the webpages are still being hosted. Has there been a similar poll since then? I find these exercises so valuable.
I recently read some (originally) French nonfiction comics.
I’m a fan of Tardi and Manchette’s crime comics, so I recently decided to read Tardi’s WWI comics. They are very good, especially It Was the War of the Trenches. They effectively depict the war’s absurdity and tragedy.
This week I read Love and Desire in the Promised Land, a series of interviews that provide a fascinating cultural window. Although this book was only recently published in English, they finished the art for the original French version and were about to start the coloring on October 6, 2023. So they ended up going back and adding a new intro, and there are also some new end notes for the English version.
I was recently reading about this one and I’m curious. Looks like Fantagraphics is about to publish a new English edition.
I’d also second Tulpa’s recommendation of The Tower. Pretty sure I originally read that one myself based on Tulpa’s recommendation.
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