JohnnyEnzyme

Another recent, random American discovery, and IIRC the first little collection of pixel art here, one of my favorite styles based on growing up in the 8-bit PC & gaming age.

"Mich-spich" had me at the "Prague" piece, so I'm just gonna roll with it, blush a little, and promise to get back to pure Euro stuff in my next post. 😅

Nightlife in Prague

Astoria Column

Lake View

Nature's Eruption

Blue Lotus

Oregon Coast

Koi Pond

Omg-- Burning Tower !

Michelle is inspired by scenery of the Pacific Northwest, and seemingly much more, such as fantasy worlds and anime / manga. In fact she works in multiple types of media, and is regularly looking to expand and refine her craft. Her site is below, in which there's much more art to look at. She also takes commissions.

https://mich-spich.carrd.co/

(note: I don't know her personally, and this is not a plug)
(just wanted to share the work of another artist I liked)

Hopefully, eventually we get more contributors here, and if I may say so, it's part of why @Nacktmull@lemm.ee and I have worked hard to get things rolling, share content, be good hosts, and welcome you all. I.e., we want to create a pleasant place for people to share Euro-style comics content, talk about such & them, and enjoy.

Jump in as you like. ^^

ART CREDIT: Blazing Blue Remastered, by The_Good_Guy_Two.

Me, I'd never heard of this gal before, but just today, Google featured what I thought was a pretty sweet ligne claire depiction of one of MLK's marches. Reading up, I came to learn a little bit about the African-American creator, Tatyana.

So I goggled & googled, saw the above, and thought... dang! That's some nice ligne claire, baby, particularly focusing on a topic rarely if ever tackled across LC, right?

TBH, I still don't really know that much about Tatyana. Seems she's a Californian who moved to Texas (zoiks). Any winkly-wankley-wuvvly case, I enjoy her art a lot, so here goes some samples:

One thing I've always enjoyed about LC is that it's so much more than just a formulaic Hergé imitation (altho it can still be that, haha), but pretty much like every art style ever, it's more of a launch=point.

Ooh lala, I love how she goes all 'I'mma do my version of Japanese Koi right here!' :D

It's a positional coolness, Johnny. You'll never be able.
Hey wassup big daddy!

Whoopsie, pardon me, esteemed sir!
(or multiple sirs, as the case may be)

Oi! Could almost be a Will Eisner piece, Tenement Stories, etc.

Hahaha, dunno if anyone remembers those classic Coke ads from the 50's & 60's, but this one really sent me. Drunken Santa et al.

"Alright, wrap it up, Roy!"
--Maurice Moss (The IT Crowd)

So then, here's some Tatyana links to pursue, if interested:
https://www.instagram.com/french75studios/
https://www.french75studios.com/

So once upon a time, a BD colleague snapped this at market.

Bit later, I tried to sort it in GIMP.
Bah:
https://i.imgur.com/3XXNn77.jpg

No, it's Bob et Bobette (or Suske en Wiske, is it not?) by Willy Vandersteen.
If I understand correctly, he's of Dutch descent, who lived and worked out of Belgique.

In any case, I love this kind of action-packed, early 'Hergé-style' ligne claire.
So funny and cute. <3

Now, if this heavily reminds you of The Misadventures of Jocko, the High-Flying Chimp, with his two little human buddies, well actually he was the star of a slightly different series:

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/h/herge.htm#:~:text=Herg%C3%A9/Moulinsart%202012.-,Jo%2C%20Zette%20et%20Jocko

Haha, nah, it's really more like these:

(hmm... metaphor for Snowy- Hergé himself?)

(evil Tintin alert?)

Eureka! I've got... something..?

Meh... so at least it's back to Peru, via fortunato!

In fact, this dates from the 1947 magazine, i.e. how Tintin was being published at the time.

Haha, and here's a fun, fan-redraw:
https://i.imgur.com/uRpRRac.jpg

Artist: In The Depths of Solitude, via Tumbler

Some nice, Christmassy colors there. :-)

Hang on tight!!

Swarte has always been someone who tickled me, with his beautifully clean, mad, pleasing designs. For now, this will have to serve as a minor introduction to his work.

Joost Swarte is a Dutch graphic designer, illustrator and architect, and one of the most famous Dutch comic artists internationally, even though he has not made that many actual comics. Most of his better known series, like Jopo de Pojo, Anton Makassar and Katoen en Pinbal (1972-1979), were made in the 1970s. Afterwards he became far better known as an illustrator and architect.

Swarte is not just a follower of the "Clear Line" tradition of Hergé and Edgar P. Jacobs, but is actually the very person who coined and popularised the phrase "Ligne Claire".

!!

Swarte draws in a very calculated, technically-precise style with much attention to bright colours and elegant design work. Swarte is additionally (co-)initiator of magazines Modern Papier and Scratches, as well as the festival Stripdagen Haarlem, and the Hergé Museum in Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.

--Lambiek, with edits & additions by Johnny

More here, with samples: https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/swarte1.htm

Took me a while, but I finally got it!
It's an homage to Luncheon of the Boating Party by Renoir, to the left.

No idea what album this is from, I'm afraid. Anybody know..?