JohnnyEnzyme

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[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is probably well known to many, but Steve Martin was a professional musician, magician and TV series writer before more commonly being known as a standup comic, actor, comedian, and later, film writer. Not to mention:

Inspired by his philosophy classes, Martin considered becoming a professor instead of an actor-comedian. Being at college changed his life.

It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. Something about non sequiturs appealed to me. In philosophy, I started studying logic, and they were talking about cause and effect, and you start to realize, 'Hey, there is no cause and effect! There is no logic! There is no anything!' Then it gets real easy to write this stuff because all you have to do is twist everything hard—you twist the punch line, you twist the non sequitur so hard away from the things that set it up.

Martin recalls reading a treatise on comedy that led him to think:

What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it? What if I headed for a climax, but all I delivered was an anticlimax? What would the audience do with all that tension? Theoretically, it would have to come out sometime. But if I kept denying them the formality of a punch line, the audience would eventually pick their own place to laugh, essentially out of desperation. --WP

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

It's definitely interesting with hard-headed Riley being in the equation, but so far my thoughts are pretty-much that this is yet another case of an aging, overpaid star attempting to save face and leverage as much money as possible.

Jimmy did great things for the Heat, but he & his agent surely know that he's not worth max money at any kind of extension. IMO the 'right' thing to do would be to stay with the org that wanted him, where he was part of a very good, overachieving team, and take a lesser salary.

I just have no sympathy for these aging big stars in these scenarios. It's little more than rich-people problems, and part of why the effective cost to the fans of seeing sports keeps going up.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

I like the clip, but IMO they basically bailed out in the end by all the nonsense quoted from the ~3:25 mark on.

Jeff basically makes it sound like the US used to be incredibly self-aware, humble, kind, and well-administrated, but I think what most Americans don't choose to understand is that since the very settling of the continent, it's been a highly fraught, contentious situation, much of it characterised by greed, cruelty, violence, intolerance and self-righteousness.

Now yes, from what I understand of history, under FDR we more or less hit a peak of being a well-run, progressive country, on the level of many modern Euro countries more or less, but most of that was specifically in response to the utter disaster of the Great Depression and the need to adjust powerfully, swiftly and accurately. Meanwhile, IIRC during his presidency, there was in fact a right-wing movement intending to remove him by underhanded means.

So I like the hopefulness of the clip, but in the end I also find it pretty typical of Americans being largely unwilling to understand the hows and whys of the nation, going back to the early 1600's.

Eh, sorry for the dang essay. :S

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Just make a community. Build it, they will come.

This is exactly what I've done, but I must say that in the particular community's case, it hasn't been easy. We're going on 1.5yrs now, 900+ subscribers, and I've personally contributed ~360 posts (most of them curated mini-articles) out of 466 total posts, yet the sub still essentially needs me to provide the content.

So IME, niche-type subs can take a hell of a lot of work to take off, and we're not even that much of a niche.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I get you...

One thing that totally kills me is how the US just *screwed* with so many other nations over the years, mainly for profit, etc.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Now India and China are rising powers and you are going back to being a regular super-power.

NOT that I don't think you're mistaken, but at the same time, India & China are about as @(*&#-ed as it possibly comes when it comes to being considered 'super-powers.'

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing this one, as the duo is based in Germany IIRC.

Actually they visited r/BD about half a year ago, and I welcomed them to post here as well, but I don't think they ever did. Oh well, nobody's perfect. XD

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Pretty sure it just means "rascal," as in the English translated panel.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Get a load of how he starts screaming when he pulls this move:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6E-PEScQ-k

It's kind of a miracle that this psycho hasn't ended someone's season at this point.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I'm similar, but morbidly can't help but keep reading the newer ones, hoping for lightning to strike, or something like that. It's rather a shame, since the art has been quite impressive IMO.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Back in the day, I had to pedal *quite* a few miles to get to a certain store that sold Asterix, and I think one of either Lucky Luke or Tintin albums. They weren't exactly cheap, and I also had to calculate how to split my funds between D&D hobby stuff, plus whatever music album I wanted.

Young, middle-class problems, I suppose. XD

Anyway yeah, how and where did you find it, Tyler? (all hail Fight Club, btw)

 

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/

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee to c/eurographicnovels@lemm.ee
 

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

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Bob...! (i.imgur.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee to c/eurographicnovels@lemm.ee
 

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#%3A%7E%3Atext=Herg%C3%A9%2FMoulinsart+2012.-%2CJo%2C+Zette+et+Jocko

 

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. :-)

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee to c/eurographicnovels@lemm.ee
 

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..?

 
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