I’ll be honest-- outside of my champion B&W artist-hero Jaime (i.e. Mexican-American Jaime Hernandez), I really do love fine, water-colored comics. But then… dash-it-all, THEN I demand a nuanced, real-world storyline on top of that! I mean, how ungrateful can one get??
Which brings us to this little “JC Acquefacques” classic, which I really didn’t like at first. Well, at least for me, I felt it strangling, Kafkaesque, horribly dated, annoying, and just plain irrelevant, TBH. But then… page after page… I started smirking, then giggling, then finally… my eyes just blazed with admiration. (is that a phrase? well now it is!)
----> https://imgur.com/a/6luNkBt <----
YES, I know… not everyone’s going to like this niche, meta series, which tends to express itself in rather 50-ish terms, but for those interested–
LBK:
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mathieu_m.htm
BDT:
https://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-201-BD-Mathieu-Marc-Antoine.html
EDIT: hahaha, there’s even a song for this one:
Enjoyably surreal.