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Comics Worldwide: Belgium (pt. 1). The first name of Belgian comics I'd say is Hergé (Georges Prosper Remi). Auhor of Tintin, Quick & Flupke, and Jo, Zette and Jocko to name a few. Known for his Ligne Claire™ drawing style, he's one of the most famous comics authors of all time.
Just got pissed off at something and searched for images of characters flipping the bird in order to accompany my pissed off tweet. Good thing I did research before tweeting cause I realized I got it wrong and there's no reason to get pissed. These shouldn't go to waste though X)
Been chatting about Blade of the Immortal with @AntoineRevoy and I got reminded of how beautiful Hiroaki Samura's art is so I wanted to share some of it. Enjoy!
Comics Worldwide: Australia. Shaun Tan is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for The Lost Thing, a 2011 animated film adaptation his picture book. Tan also won the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the biggest prize in children's literature.
Comics Worldwide: Australia. Ginger Meggs, Australia's longest-running comic strip, was created in the early 1920s by Jimmy Bancks. When Bancks died, Ron Vivian took over, followed by Lloyd Piper, James Kemsley and since 2007, Jason Chatfield. https://t.co/b6wa3cfEye
Comics Worldwide: Armenia. Medz Yeghern: Great Evil by Paolo Cossi is a comic about the Armenian Holocaust, which was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians, that happened between 1914 and 1923.
January Spotlight is Twitter: the Comic. Webcomic series by @VectorBelly that ran on tumblr from Nov 2012 to Oct 2014 and was focused on transforming funny tweets into 4-panel comics. True #webcomic in every sense of that word. See it here: https://t.co/whDDW4k4qy
Comics Worldwide: Argentina, pt. 3. You don't talk about Argentinean comics without mentioning Mafalda by Quino. Mafalda is a 6-year old with a serious attitude problem that has her own street, a couple of statues and a passageway in Angouleme named after her.
Comics Worldwide: Argentina, pt. 1. When it comes to comics this is one of the most important countries in Americas with long and rich tradition. Let's start with a legendary one, The Eternaut (El Eternauta) by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López.