Episode 85 of the Pipeline Comics podcast features Izneo, the Comixology Alternative for BD

Episode 85: The Comixology Alternative

ByAugie De Blieck Jr.

There is no singular alternative to Comixology. There is, however, an alternative for European albums. It’s Izneo.com and you should sign up for it today. They have a subscription plan and you can even buy albums through their app.

I did a thorough write-up of Izneo recently.

Here’s the video version of this podcast, if you want to look at something while I talk:

Learning French: I’m using DuoLingo for learning French. I recently hit day 788 . Je pense que je suis un cheval!

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Comic fan since 1989. Letterhack from 1991. Pipeline writer since 1997.

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  1. I was going to comment on 86 that I just listened to in my podcast app, but I can’t find it here.

    My main argument with what you’re saying there is that I make a major difference between good art and good graphic storytelling. Arguably, most comics and BD out there have good (enough) art in them at this point, but I feel that most of them have lost the dynamism they had until the early 90s. What we see now is a succession of stills, pin-ups. Decompressed dialogue masks some of that but it’s very apparent in the action scenes that I’m now having a hard time figuring out what’s happening. What made someone like Franquin so enjoyable is now totally gone. Or maybe I’m just too old…

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    1. Those show notes are up now. I was just lazy (or incredibly slow) and didn’t publish a post to go along with the podcast in the feed.

      You’re right about the difference in illustration versus storytelling, but I do think most of my favorites these days are better at storytelling than my favorites were twenty years ago. (Hello, Todd McFarlane…). Even a “kids book” like “FRNK” has some great panel to panel storytelling that incorporates interesting illustrations and beautiful coloring. Yes, there’s definitely a lot of pin-up happy artists still, but I think most of the problems in storytelling is lack of experience more than incapability. They should all study the masters like Franquin, though, in any case. =)

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