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Post by the4thpip on Feb 23, 2015 3:48:44 GMT -5
I finished the first volume of Maggy Garrison, by my favorite French writer, Lewis Trondheim. Art by Stéphane Oiry.  With Trondheim, you never know what you're going to expect as he writes in a wide variety of styles. But you always know it's gonna be good, and I was not disappointed. Just when Maggy thought she was going to have a very good day for a change, with a new exciting job working for a private investigator, more bad luck comes her way. The only solution for Maggy now is to start making her own luck. This is Love & Rockets by way of the Maltese Falcon, as the protagonist comes across a gallery of weird characters, small time crooks, new friends and (im)possible new love interests. I'll definitely look for the 2nd volume when it comes out in April. |
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Post by berkley on Mar 6, 2015 0:03:08 GMT -5
I haven't looked at Trondheim much. His own artwork doesn't appeal to me, so maybe Maggy Garrisson would be a good one to try. I just came across this today: Annie Goetzinger's Jeune fille en Dior:  The artwork looks gorgeous. Apparently it's been translated into English too. Looking at Goetzinger's bibliography, she's done several things I'd like to have a look at, from her first BD, a biographical story called Casque d'or, to adventure series like Félina and Agence Hardy. |
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Post by antoine on Mar 7, 2015 23:04:33 GMT -5
I haven't looked at Trondheim much. His own artwork doesn't appeal to me, so maybe Maggy Garrisson would be a good one to try. I just came across this today: Annie Goetzinger's Jeune fille en Dior: The artwork looks gorgeous. Apparently it's been translated into English too. Looking at Goetzinger's bibliography, she's done several things I'd like to have a look at, from her first BD, a biographical story called Casque d'or, to adventure series like Félina and Agence Hardy. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Trondheim art neither.... I might have to take a loot at Maggy Garrisson though, I like the cover! |
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Post by berkley on Mar 8, 2015 0:31:09 GMT -5
I haven't looked at Trondheim much. His own artwork doesn't appeal to me, so maybe Maggy Garrisson would be a good one to try. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Trondheim art neither.... I might have to take a loot at Maggy Garrisson though, I like the cover! I did an image search on it and the interior artwork looks good too, from the few pages I saw. |
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Post by the4thpip on Mar 8, 2015 3:04:46 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Trondheim art neither.... I might have to take a loot at Maggy Garrisson though, I like the cover! I did an image search on it and the interior artwork looks good too, from the few pages I saw. Publisher Dupuis put a "Motion Comic" style ad for Maggy Garrisson up on youtube where you can judge the inside art: Trondheim also worked with a more traditional artist on Texas Cowboys. I read the first volume and it's really excellent. |
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Post by antoine on Mar 10, 2015 16:35:06 GMT -5
I have zero money right now, but I just reserved online Jeune fille en Dior et Maggy Garrison from the library. They will call me when they have it.
They have a really great system here... there is 10 librairies in my city, some quite far, and I can reserve any book I want online and they will bring it to the library I want, which is 5 minutes from my house.
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Post by antoine on Mar 13, 2015 9:31:24 GMT -5
I did an image search on it and the interior artwork looks good too, from the few pages I saw. Publisher Dupuis put a "Motion Comic" style ad for Maggy Garrisson up on youtube where you can judge the inside art: Trondheim also worked with a more traditional artist on Texas Cowboys. I read the first volume and it's really excellent. Just finish Maggy Garrisson #1 and I loved it! It was a great read, great story, and Maggy is a great character. The art was also really good! Will definitely look out for #2! |
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Post by the4thpip on Mar 13, 2015 12:44:32 GMT -5
Publisher Dupuis put a "Motion Comic" style ad for Maggy Garrisson up on youtube where you can judge the inside art: Trondheim also worked with a more traditional artist on Texas Cowboys. I read the first volume and it's really excellent. Just finish Maggy Garrisson #1 and I loved it! It was a great read, great story, and Maggy is a great character. The art was also really good! Will definitely look out for #2! Glad you liked it! I think the 2nd volume will come out a week after my brother gets back from his trip to Paris, so I'll likely have to wait a while to get it once I get around to visiting my best friend in Alsace. |
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Post by antoine on Mar 13, 2015 16:44:18 GMT -5
Just finish Maggy Garrisson #1 and I loved it! It was a great read, great story, and Maggy is a great character. The art was also really good! Will definitely look out for #2! Glad you liked it! I think the 2nd volume will come out a week after my brother gets back from his trip to Paris, so I'll likely have to wait a while to get it once I get around to visiting my best friend in Alsace. So you read them in French? Where are you from? |
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Post by the4thpip on Mar 13, 2015 17:03:56 GMT -5
Glad you liked it! I think the 2nd volume will come out a week after my brother gets back from his trip to Paris, so I'll likely have to wait a while to get it once I get around to visiting my best friend in Alsace. So you read them in French? Where are you from? I'm German, and we vacationed in France almost every year of my childhood. I may have learned more French from Tintin magazine than from my high school teachers. |
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Post by antoine on Mar 13, 2015 17:31:56 GMT -5
Awesome! I've been to Germany in 2009 and LOVED it!
I was suppose to go back this year from February 12 to March 6th with my friend who was on tour, but with a young daughter at home I had to cancel!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 13, 2015 18:48:30 GMT -5
So you read them in French? Where are you from? I'm German, and we vacationed in France almost every year of my childhood. I may have learned more French from Tintin magazine than from my high school teachers. Very cool! I always thought that comics were one of the best ways to quickly learn a foreign language. I owe a great debt to Prinz Eisenherz! |
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Post by Dizzy D on Mar 13, 2015 19:30:59 GMT -5
I know most of my german as a small kid from the german comics Micky Maus (I think you can figure it out) and Gespenster Geschichten (Ghost Stories). The french was mostly through TV though (Belgian TV had both dutch and french subtitles for big movies during the 80s).
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Mar 14, 2015 10:28:56 GMT -5
The truly great advantage of comics is that the images are often enough to give you an idea of what's going on, and you can then take your time to match the words to the action. Other visual teaching aides like movies can provide information on pronunciation, but if you're not partly conversant in the language used your experience might go a little like this:
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Post by antoine on Mar 14, 2015 18:31:58 GMT -5
I haven't looked at Trondheim much. His own artwork doesn't appeal to me, so maybe Maggy Garrisson would be a good one to try. I just came across this today: Annie Goetzinger's Jeune fille en Dior: The artwork looks gorgeous. Apparently it's been translated into English too. Looking at Goetzinger's bibliography, she's done several things I'd like to have a look at, from her first BD, a biographical story called Casque d'or, to adventure series like Félina and Agence Hardy. I just read it this afternoon... Nothing to write home about, story-wise... Just the life of Christian Dior, without a lot of details at all... It follows a girl who works for him. A really quick read for a 100 pages book. The art is gorgeous though! |
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