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I particularly love this first one because, speaking as primarily a watercolor & gauche artist myself, sometimes artists (the great Hugo Pratt, here) just make it hard to figure out what the hell art materials they used exactly, in which we observers sometimes just totally lame-out and shout "mixed media, dude!"
But I'm not sure I totally believe it.
Incidentally, I'm a HUGE fan of female leads, and to me, this one kinda recapitulates James Bond's primary love-interest in, uh... what was that film? EDIT: It was Live and Let Die, a super-fun film IMO.
Here's a prime snippet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn8q0LsO4PA
(and please DO watch it on your YT proxy so as not to get caught in the web of ads)
Yes yes, once again it's NOT BD, and honestly, I'm really not much of a manga fan outside Ghibli. But this collection quite caught my eye, and seemingly for many Euros, too. From what I can tell, it's called The Art of Mitsume "World of 2," published by Noeve Grafx in Europe.
Ex-libris Azimut, Manie Ganza, Jean-Baptiste Andréae, vent d'Ouest - Hobby Folie!
Sadly, I don't know this series at all (well, what else is new, Johnny), but I loved how this picture plays around with almost a tradition of glam media, but I also Iike how the photog is a sort of R2D2 attempting to capture "Marilyn" in the 'great pose,' you know?
Possibly NSFW:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22marilyn+monroe%22+%22upskirt%22&udm=2
I first saw this in the American Heavy Metal magazine. It's of course Moebius playing around with *everything*, such as his penmanship, 'hatching-work' (how the lines intersect), the beautiful colors, the panel-layout, and just... whoof!
It's also oddly funny to me... I.e., "Arzach" might have met his eternal doom right here, but I reckon him more like "Den," by Richard Corben. I.e., our collective love for them will just keep resurrecting them endlessly, mais non?
Note: I've tried to help make our sidebar more easily-searchable for results lately, and we certainly have more Den & Arzach content, were one to search...
Go get it, Tiger!
I really like the Pratt and Moebius panels! Is the Pratt panel from Corto Maltese? I agree, don´t think there is the one Arzach, the guy seems to exist in a lot of timelines/universes. As always reading your commentary on the images was a pleasure.
Thank you, dear friend. I think the panel might have been from a cover, but I'm not totally sure. For example, some early investigation discovers:
https://comic-historietas.blogspot.com/2009/05/hugo-pratt-el-esoterismo-en-corto.html