PIPELINECOMICS
European Comics.
North American Perspective.
“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:…
Silent comics are easy to translate. Maybe that’s why there are so many available to us today. Here are five.
Lewis Trondheim wrote a few silent comics that NBM published in the early 2000s. They’re really good.
I really want to organize my comics collection in alphabetical order. Or do I?
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.
Papercutz picked up the license for Asterix and will start reprinting the entire series in the spring of 2020. But there are compromises…
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…
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…
Why do collectors of comic book original art gravitate so much to the splash pages and covers? I don’t get it. I’m a panel pages kind of guy. Here’s why.
Nobody is going to have as thorough a hot take on this as me: Papercutz has Asterix. Now what?