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Carthago (review)—“Reputation outlasts your passing”

Written by Terry Hammond, May 26, 2021

Writer: Christophe Bec Artists: Eric Henninot, Milan Jovanovic Humanoids, 2016 NATURE SOMETIMES ALLOWS HUGE CREATURES, though most are long gone. Whales, giant redwoods, big dodo birds, maybe soon the whole Amazon forest are recent casualties within memory alongside ancient extinctions like the dinosaurs 66 million years ago downed by nuclear winter following an asteroid impact…

Beatifica Blues (revisited), or “My badge says I don’t exist”

Written by Terry Hammond, May 18, 2021

Story: Jean Dufaux Art: Griffo Dargaud Benelux, 1987-1989 LIFE WAS SUPPOSED TO GET BETTER. People power was supposed to bring us to our senses, but then the spawn always spawning call it a spawn and nothing else with a name took us to the brink of destruction and beyond. Dystopian fantasies of the 1980s fondle…

Original draft cover for Tintin: The Blue Lotus to be auctioned

Written by DG Stewart, October 15, 2020

One of the original covers by Hergé for his fifth Tintin comic book Le Lotus Bleu (The Blue Lotus) from 1936 will on 21 November 2020 be auctioned by French auction house Artcurial. Tintin’s creator, Hergé, drew the cover for his fifth album of the adventures of Tintin in 1936. However, it was too expensive to mass produce the…

Thoreau and Me (review)

Written by DG Stewart, October 7, 2020

Creator: Cédric Taling Self-Made Hero (English translation), 2020 For those middle-aged men who worry about the impact of global environmental degradation upon their ability to fend for their families (like the writer), casually reading up on what was once regarded as ultra-paranoid activities like prepping seems to have become de rigeur. Recently, fear of calamity…