Bilal books

Just some notes on the books by Enki Bilal that I've got...

Titan books also published their own versions of...

The woman trap

Gods in chaos

The town that didn't exist

I don't own any of the Titan versions

All images from here

Catalan Communications (3)

My final Catalan Communications volume is 'Abominations' by Hermann, printed in February 1990 this contains 4 stories...
Massacre
Flight
The cage
Vengeance
...of things that go bump in the night

Hermann is the pen name of Belgian comic artist Hermann Huppen, more details here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Huppen


His official website is here...
http://www.hermannhuppen.be/


This wasn't the first time that Hermann's work had been printed in English, as we'll see tomorrow.

Catalan Communications (2)

Following on from yesterday's Catalan Communications post I thought I'd fish out my other books by Catalan...

First up is Burton & Cyb[org] from 1991. 46 pages, 6 stories from illustrator Jose Ortiz and author Antonio Segura;

Take a Fall (8 pages)

Make a Better God... (6 pages)

Jellyfish From Outer Space (8 pages)

The Invasion (8 pages)

Excalibur (8 pages)

Wonder Fish (8 pages)

6 stories of sci-fi comedy adventure


3 volumes were published but only this volume was translated into English.

Here's an interior page showing his distinctive figurework

The always useful http://www.eurocomics.info/ lists the following stories as being printed in Heavy Metal magazine...

1988

Summer: The First Round -- (8 pp.)


1989
March: The Next God Will Be A Better One -- (6 pp.)
July: The Jellyfish From Space -- (8 pp.)

1990
May: En Busca De La Hija Perdida -- (8 pp.)

1991
July: Brother Can You Spare A Dime? -- (8 pp.)
November: The Mine -- (8 pp.)

1994
March: Used Car Salesman" -- (8 pp.)

1995
Special Havoc: Tourist Business -- ( 8 p.)
September: Lolita, A Very Special Girl -- Lolita, una Chica Especial -- ( 8 p.)

1996
January: The Conquest Of The West -- (8 pp.)
May: Space Social Security -- (6 pp.)
July: Matrimonial Agency -- (8 pp.)
November: The Meltal Musical Virus -- (8 pp.)

1997
March: Terrorism In Green -- (6 pp.)

1999
May: Let Yourself Fall / The First Hit -- (8 pp.) 

Blake & Mortimer (3)

And here's volume 6 (volume 1 in the Cinebook series) from January 1988

The only other publisher to tackle English language publication of B&M books were Catalan communications (under their comcat comics imprint) - they published 2 titles, I only have the first and it's shown below (volume 19 in the Cinebook series).

They also published a second volume, The Atlantis Mystery, which is volume 12 in the Cinebook series.

For more images you can't beat a trip to http://www.eurocomics.info/ which has masses of scans of English language reprints of European graphic novels. It's a fantastic site.