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Blake et Mortimer - Edgard P. Jacobs (Plates from “Le Secret de l’Espadon” 1946)

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Cover by Hugo Pratt to European Cartoonist magazine #1, published by Nino Bernazzali, 1973.

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The year is a bit confusing: The story is taking place in 1936, but Bernet took over drawing Torpedo in the eighties right from the hands of famous comics artist Alex Toth, who started drawing the series in 1981. Toth left Torpedo, because he wasn't comfortable with the dark and cynical storytelling of Enrique Sánchez Abulí. Jordi Bernet with his more rough and gritty style was the perfect guy for drawing the violent black-humorous tales of the Italo-American hitman.

Torpedo by Jordi Bernet (1930s)

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by Ted Benoît

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Ralph Reese - Metal Hurlant, 1979.

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spanish page of Adieu Brindavoine from 1974 by Jaques Tardi.

Originally written and published before Adele Blanc-Sec's adventures it is marking a break in the storyline and got integrated later on between pre-war and after-war Adele stories (Adele herself is "dead" during the First World War). The main character is Adele's friend Lucien Brindavoine who returns crippled from the Great War in the later stories.

Together with La fleur au fusil it is also one of Tardi's earliest attempts to describe the horrors and senseless slaughters of WW I.

Tardi

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panel from CORTO MALTESE in Nel nome di Allah misericordioso de compassionnevole

by Hugo Pratt, 1972

It is one of four Corto Maltese adventures that are set in northern Africa at the end of WW I. Pratt is feeding the story with his own experiences as a son of colonists and member of a fascist youth corps. It's kind of his way to give the colonialized people back their dignity and a chapeau to the guerilla fighters as well as showing the senselessness of Italy's colonial adventure and the stupidity of fascist ideology.

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cover of MOSAIK no. 202:

Die Affenplage von San Felipe.

by Hannes Hegen and his "artist-collective"

The MOSAIK was the only "comicbook" in the GDR and published by the central-committee of the SED-youth organization FDJ. The comics had no speechbubbles and when "chief-artist" Hannes Hegen, who invented the maincharacters DIGEDAGS (Dig, Dag and Digedag), claimed his copyrights and wanted more money, they kicked him out of the game and relaunching MOSAIK with the three similar ABRAFAXE, who are starring in the MOSAIK until today. So MOSAIK (as a newsstand title) is the longest running comic-magazine in Germany.

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Theodore prend l’air

Le Gall

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Kid Panama a la rescousse !

Les aventures siderales de Rocco Vargas

Daniel Torres

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cover of WESTERN MAGAZIN no.1, 1969, West-Germany

one of the many products of the Rolf Kauka comic empire, best known for his Fix und Foxi (a rip-off of Disney's Duckburg) and some infamous right-wing versions of Asterix and Spirou.

The WESTERN MAGAZINE got dropped after the first issue.The main intention was to produce more single titles for the newsstands, while Kauka was thinking about selling his publishing house, so it would be more attractive for possible investors.

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Couverture pour “De Minuit a sept heures” de Maurice Leblanc

Floc’h

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watercolored sketches for the introduction of "MU"

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Max is running for shelter at Parc Güell when the fascists are bombing Barcelona.

No Pasaran!

Max Fridman - couverture de “No Pasaran” - 2004

Par Giardino

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Une planche de Rocco Vargas

Par Daniel Torres

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Corto se ballade sur le port

Par Hugo Pratt