16 Asterix Panels Papercutz Might Want to Translate Differently
Papercutz has their hands full in writing all new translations for 38 volumes of Asterix. I’m helping out by pointing out some potentially problemsome panels.
Episode 23: Where Do Comics Readers Come From?
The G.I. Joe cartoon in the 80s. The X-Men animated series of the 90s. Manga in the 2000s. What’s next?
Black Water Lilies: A Novel Turned Graphic Novel
“Black Water Lilies” is a murder/mystery set in a small town in France where Claude Monet painted his famous water lilies. But when a man turns up dead in the water, a police investigation threatens to turn the over-touristed area upside down to find the culprit. At the center of it all are three women:…
Episode 22: Silent Comics, Part 2
Silent comics are easy to translate. Maybe that’s why there are so many available to us today. Here are five.
Episode 21: Silent Comics by Lewis Trondheim
Lewis Trondheim wrote a few silent comics that NBM published in the early 2000s. They’re really good.
Episode 20: Organizing Alphabetically
I really want to organize my comics collection in alphabetical order. Or do I?
Undertaker v4: “The Shadow of Hippocrates” – a Western with a Great Villain
The Undertaker meets his match in the Mad Doctor, fighting a desperate battle to save Rose from the only man who can help her. It’s complicated, but wonderful.
Episode 19: Asterix to America Via Papercutz
Papercutz picked up the license for Asterix and will start reprinting the entire series in the spring of 2020. But there are compromises…
Episode 18: My Comics Collection is a Mess
My comics collection is a mess. Before I organize it, I need to purge some of it. That’s not as easy as it sounds, though…
“Captainz”: When the French Do Superheroes, Things Get Weird
Famously, Franco-Belgian creators don’t do superhero comics. They do, literally, everything else. Whenever I see a picture of a French comic shop and there’s a Marvel hardcover in the midst of all the albums, it sticks out like a sore thumb. There are a couple of counter-examples to this, of course, because nothing in life…