“BD” refers to Franco-Belgian comics, but let's open things up to include ALL Euro comics and GN's. Euro-style artistry from around the world is also welcome. ^^
-BD = "Bandes dessinées"
-BDT = Bedetheque
-GN = graphic novel
-LBK = Lambiek
-LC = "Ligne claire"
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His grandfather Wilhelm Larson was an immigrant, so Gary was second-gen.
Bit of a stretch I know, but in this post, I'm claiming him for Sweden!
By that token, we can have Mickey Mouse and Superman here as well
Okay, can you breakdown Siegel and Shuster's ancestry for me?
From my POV, Superman is quintessentially American, whereas Far Side was more of an 'alt' thing that brought in foreign sensibilities. I like it better as an occasional drift.
Meanwhile Mickey Mouse is a Disney product, and Euro Disney comics started just a short time after Walt went to work, so yeah, it has legitimacy as being Euro. Scrooge McDuck has been posted here before from the fumetti.
The Far Side is a slightly more surreal take on the American newspaper funny-pages tradition like The Family Circus and such. Hergé it ain’t. (Produce some Swedish comics with a similar sensibility that American comics before it didn’t have and you might have a case, but the burden of proof is on the extraordinary claim.)
The Donald Duck comics made for the European market in recent decades (drawn in Italy, and translated into numerous languages, if I recall correctly) would be a special case, though the original Mickey Mouse is as American as Betsy Ross. The fact that most comics we call “American”were produced by people of European ancestry does not erase the distinction between it and European comics.
I'd say way more than just "slightly." It was one of the rare cases where an underground style became wildly popular, spawning a whole new genre plus many imitators and spiritual successors. It brought in influences that hadn't quite been seen before, and were anything but 'classical American.'
Like I said, Disney fumetti started up not long after Walt went to work, so it was way longer than "recent decades." Maybe you want to go research that.
In any case, the point seems to be completely missed that nominating The Far Side as anything categorically European was a silly stretch, and nothing more. It was just some nice art that had a small Swedish connection, and I auto-posted it just to share and have people enjoy, on a day when I otherwise wasn't going to post anything. Also, I recommend reading the sidebar.
At the end of the day, I welcome you and anyone else to post the Euro stuff you enjoy here. Cheers.