Jason's Blog, page 81

F'murr

Taking a break from Hermann and started rereading my old Ullkorn albums by F'murr, published back in the early 80s. The French title is Le Génie des Alpages. Absurd humour at its best.

Happy birthday, Tom Waits!

Story titles in new book

1. If You Steal
2. Karma Chameleon
3. Waiting for Bardot
4. Lorena Velazquez
5. New Face
6. Moondance
7. Night of the Vampire Hunter
8. Polly Wants a Cracker
9. The Thrill is Gone
10. Ask Not
11. Nothing

Nostradamus / Kennedy page

(That's David Ferrie, played by Joe Pesci in JFK, in the first panel.)

2 panels, 1 film sept

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Red Kelly

Moving on to Red Kelly, Greg and Hermann's Western series. This series is called Commanche in French, and the main character is called Red Dust, not Red Kelly. Hermann's drawings are more cinematic than Giraud's Blueberry, the series itself closer to Leone than to Ford or Hawks. And also, Hermann's characters MOVED on the page. The high point of the series is probably Les Loups du Wyoming and Le Ciel est Rouge sur Laramie, the story of Kelly hunting down the Dobbs brothers.

Outhwaite and Clark

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite and Margaret Clark

Vintage Swedish film posters 2

Nick Fury

Rereading Bernard Prince

...Hermann and Greg's updating of classic adventure strips like Terry and the Pirates. They have basically the same main characters: The hero, the boy and the clown. Compared to Caniff's strip, though, Bernard Prince has no interesting female characters. There is no Burma or Dragon Lady. What it does have is mother nature as a villain. Volcanos, tornadoes, deserts, jungles: Hermann excels at drawing these things. And it's just interesting to see how his drawing style changes from the first couple of stories to the last album, Le Port des Fous.