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“BD” refers to Franco-Belgian comics, but let's open things up to include ALL Euro comics and GN's. Euro-style work from around the world is also welcome!

* BD = "Bandes dessinées"
* BDT = Bedetheque
* GN = graphic novel
* LBK = Lambiek
* LC = "Ligne claire"

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José is from Spain, and what first blew me out of the water was his ingenious, hugely inventive, isometric, stream-of-consciousness book, Adventures of a Salaryman. Here's the French title & cover:

It's about a Japanese "salaryman" ('career office worker,' essentially) simply trying to make his way home after a long day pointlessly wasting overtime hours in order to mildly impress his bosses (i.e. the usual salaryman thing).

Basically-- he just wants to get home and go to sleep, and is certainly not looking forward to anything new and/or unexpected. This dude, even if he wanted sex from his wife? That almost certainly wasn't going to fly. So he really, really just wants to throw down his head upon yon pillow(!)

Unfortunately (or fortunately?) absolutely everything unexpected, weird & wild happens to him from that point on, with flippin' bells hangin' off bells, a bit of an ol' Brit expression? :P

Anyway-- SAMPLES

TBH? I don't know that much about his other work.
Still, from what I do understand, this matey has his finger in many pies, such as animation, movies, cartoons, and et cet.

So then, here's some samples I liked in particular:

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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Brilliant stuff, thanks for sharing.

The busyness of many of these gives me real Richard Scarry vibes.


This one in particular made me feel like I was playing a game, maybe a point and click puzzler.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

The busyness of many of these gives me real Richard Scarry vibes.

Haha, interesting comparison!
I certainly hadn't made that connection, but I think I see what you mean, and do still love the Scarrys' work even as a middle-ager.

Btw, I got a bit lazy with titles and stuff, so thanks for sharing context on the Mad Max piece!

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This really put me in mind of Max Mad, so I went looking to find out more.

I was commissioned to create a Mad Max tribute poster for exhibiting at the Sitges Film Festival, one of the biggest and most important film festivals in Europe, specialized in fantastic genre movies. In 2019 they dedicated the festival to Mad Max and, as part of the illustrated tribute to the universe of George Miller, I created this piece.

I wanted to mix Mad Max with one of those classic Miyazaki's cranky, crowded with bad guys contraptions, and this is what came out of that crazy mash up.

It was a lot of fun!

José Domingo • Sitges Film Festival — Mad Max Tribute Poster (larger version of the image at this link)