TAG: Tintin

Thank you! It’s really awesome of you to make all these quality posts all the time and share these cool comics.

Ah, you just made my day! 😃

My grandfather, a machinist…

That’s so cool to me. Would you say you inherited some of his ‘working with one’s hands’ sensibility?

This totally dates me, but one thing I really liked from the film Witness (1985), is that the Pennsylvania Amish would organise building projects along the same lines.

EDIT: Oh wow, I think I found the very scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL_X7GelX5Q

Fascinating stuff, Rolando. Thanks for adding on.

Most of the pirate stuff I’ve read tends to be Caribbean-based, but I’d like to read more about those N. African coast Barbary pirates, as well as Ching Shih, the famous Chinese pirate queen.

I did start a list at the evil empire, and hope to read more of those over time, as well as expand the list.

Ah yes, I’d forgotten about them. I also can’t help but wonder if the French (who IIRC had the most powerful naval fleet for many years) intentionally allowed them to harass their Euro rivals to the south, such as Spain and Italy, until it eventually become politically expedient?

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I think when they said that, the implication was that there was no need for such. I.e. it interrupted the flow of the story and didn’t add anything useful, other than perhaps pandering to a certain crowd.

Sorry for the late reply, but I love it!

Oh, rabbits!

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I love you, Rolando <3

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Wow, cool. Hard to see many museums of this standing feature so much BD outside France & Belge, but I guess the reasons are pretty clear in this case.

Nice to hear about the Simmonds exhibit, as the cleverness of her Gemma Bovery really re-ignited in me a desire to give French another try. (now if only it didn’t have %^@#$ gender for nouns, but oh well)

the exhibition’s really made me want to give these comics a new try.

If you watched the “matttt” video above, could you tell me if the museum exhibit took a similar or divergent course?

Well, if you’re looking for absolute perfection in a ST theme, good luck. It’s not like Mike Post or John Williams were writing these suckers.

That said, I thought Alexander Courage did a hell of a job on the original.

Super, thanks!
I’ve added the info. ^^

I find it ever-so-slightly pompous with all the horns, but otherwise, a cool remix of the original theme.

Seems kind of weirdly unnecessary to start with “Lemmy” instead of just going with TMBG, but whatevs. Subscribed to John & John.

Roddenberry from what I’ve read in multiple places sounded like a huge asshole to me, and nowhere near the ‘Great Bird of the Galaxy’ he liked to self-label himself as. Now yes, a very talented asshole, whose vision started the franchise, and certainly who put in much work on TOS (along with many other talents), but nevertheless a real PITA on a personal level who wound up burning most of his bridges.

Point is-- if Meyer lost his cool with him as a young guy, I wouldn’t be very surprised.

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Hey, I think we’re in luck with Weing’s old journal! I double-checked various archive dates, and it appears the entire run had been finished and archived by 2004-2005 at least. So for example:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050403162830/http://www.drewweing.com/journalcomic/

EDIT: Hmm, some comics are missing here and there from that archive date. Possibly accessing an earlier or later archive date could be used to fill those in.

Good call. I hope to get to those books, Babar and Petit Prince sometime.

you must have read habibi?

Argh, a long time ago. I really need a proper re-read.

The Journal Comic by Drew Weing

I’ve only read his first one, Set to Sea. So, what would his journal comic be called, then?

do you have any journal comics you recommend?

Guy Delisle often works in a ‘journal-ish’ style, and I found Shenzen & Pyongyang the best of those. James Kochalka is pretty hilarious and playful, and IIRC “American Elf” was quite nice. Manu Larcenet’s “Ordinary Victories” was very good, and almost-kinda fits in there. Rabagliatti’s “Paul has a summer job” and Vera Brosgol’s “Be Prepared.”

Sorry, I’m kinda blanking on the 100% pure ‘journal’ stuff, but maybe something else will come to me.