Originally Posted by The Bus (Post 9889122)

I was always partial to Condorito growing up. If you like Old Master Q, you might like Condorito. (Based on the Wiki article on OMQ I read).

Originally Posted by The Bus (Post 9892249)

Looks like Amazon sells Condorito for $0.10 used: [url]

Originally Posted by The Bus (Post 9889122)

I was always partial to Condorito growing up.

Originally Posted by davidh777 (Post 9953563)

Just stumbled across a Tintin-lookalike series called Blake and Mortimer. Has anyone read this one?

Originally Posted by toddly6666 (Post 9953799)

Hi David, it's because it's the same Tintin team of artists that were involved with Tintin!

I never liked Blake and Mortimer too much, a little bit too wordy. I actually prefer the animated version more, which is available in the UK:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA240_.jpg

More Tintin-related books:

BARELLI
Bob De Moor was an assistant artist to Herge, creator of Tintin. He did his own series called BARELLI. These are only in French and are very good too:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...r-barelli1.jpg


TOZO THE PUBLIC SERVANT
This is an online comic (http://tozocomic.com/) created by a British dude. You can also buy the paperback directly from him. Beautiful artwork.
http://www.indyplanet.com/store/imag...1673_5035A.jpg

Originally Posted by davidh777 (Post 10534803)

Anyone know anything about Adele Blanc-Sec? I guess it's a movie now, and a book was just released in the U.S. by Fantagraphics.

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Originally Posted by http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=29811

Interview with Fantagraphics' Kim Thompson:

The two greatest Belgian cartoonists who ever lived are Hergé ("Tintin") and [Andre] Franquin ("Spirou" and "Gaston Lagaffe"). As opinions go, those are as close to unassailable fact as you can get. It’s on the “well, duh” level of whether Jack Kirby is the greatest super-hero artist ever. I would argue that Tillieux and Macherot are tied at #3.

Tillieux, who worked in a cartoony style that sort of split the difference between Hergé’s clear-line semi-realism and Franquin’s rubbery cartooniness, created several series but his best was "Gil Jordan," a private-eye series that debuted the week I was born. Literally, the day I popped out, that was the issue of "Spirou" magazine on the stands. Among its many qualities are the flawlessly moody drawings, Tillieux’s amazing gift for action set pieces -- there’s a dockside chase in the book we’re doing that’s just breathtaking -- and he was the best smart-ass dialogue writer of his generation. It’s basically like Howard Hawks does "Tintin."

Macherot is one of the few Belgian funny-animal cartoonists and "Sibyl-Anne" was his last great series. He draws like a dream, his writing is top-notch and even though it looks innocent there’s a bracing wit and sometimes snarkiness to it. (The irony is that even though among the "Spirou" magazine artists Macherot’s work looks the most childish, it’s actually in some ways the most knowingly adult, in the same way that Barks’s "Donald Duck" is more adult than any “realistic” comic.)

I actually only got into Macherot a few years ago myself for various reasons, but I’ve gotten really obsessed with his work -- which is expensive because it’s all out of print even in Europe and I’ve spent hundreds of dollars getting the books.