02-20-2014, 08:38 PM
But do you know the absolutely fantastic "Les Aigles de Rome" comic by Enrico Marini? It's been translated into several languages (everything but English, I think, in fact), and is the story of Arminius and a Roman nobleman who start as friends and then, of course, end up on different sides. Marini is one of my favourite artists.
I have the set of those as well as the Murena series and a couple of the Dutch comic series Vae Victis. My current interest however is a non Roman series about a WW1 pilot by Hugault. Fantastic artwork in that series too!
I always stock up on books like this whenever I travel to continental Europe because they are not available in shops in the UK but of course you can get them now via Amazon. Comic books are generally regarded as only for Children in the UK but of course the content of these books is definitely not aimed at them. In fact it always amuses me that you can get them everywhere you go in places like France and Germany and often they are next to the children's books. A situation which would probably cause heart failures over here and outrage in the press!
Indeed I think illustration in general is appreciated better in the rest of Europe than in the UK.
Graham.
I have the set of those as well as the Murena series and a couple of the Dutch comic series Vae Victis. My current interest however is a non Roman series about a WW1 pilot by Hugault. Fantastic artwork in that series too!
I always stock up on books like this whenever I travel to continental Europe because they are not available in shops in the UK but of course you can get them now via Amazon. Comic books are generally regarded as only for Children in the UK but of course the content of these books is definitely not aimed at them. In fact it always amuses me that you can get them everywhere you go in places like France and Germany and often they are next to the children's books. A situation which would probably cause heart failures over here and outrage in the press!
Indeed I think illustration in general is appreciated better in the rest of Europe than in the UK.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
