duminică, 18 noiembrie 2012

REPLAY : The Ballad of the Horse

  The last time I saw a horse that was almost free was on a celebration day, and a mighty steed was ridden by a police officer... I don’t think that it felt too comfy under the weight of the importance and function of the rider, but nobody had asked for its opinion, so he was resignedly carrying on his duty, trying to forget about its ancestors who were watching it from some horses’ Paradise, trying to forget about El Zorab or the Great Trojan...
The Other Horses that I hear every day without ever seeing their faces are closed up in the engine of my car and neigh furiously when the stop signs prevent us from soaring... I never dare to let them be too loud, in the city the noise is limited and I fear the officer that rides on the mighty steed which bites its harness, to show its ancestors that is still can...
   Blueberry - Jean Giraud & Jean Michel Charlier , © Ed. Dargaud... The Steel Horse, the name given by the Native Americans to the train that furrowed the outstretched prairies...
    Totoche - Jean Tabary , © Ed. Tabary... one of the most thrilling and funny comic books.
   Tanguy et Laverdure - Jije & jean Michel Charlier , © Ed. Dargaud

     Next up, a few works from a soviet publication from Moscow in 1953, which tries to answer any questions you ever asked yourself regarding horses...
   Lucky Luke - Morris & Goscinny, © Ed. Dargaud
   Torpedo - Bernet & Abuli, © Glenat Editeur
    Jo, Zette & Jocko - Herge, © Casterman
   H.P. (Horse Power) – Buzzelli & Kostandi Les Humonoides associes... a bizarre comic book, set up in a possible post-atomic future where survival is the main worry...
   Flash Gordon – Alex Raymond... the first science-fiction comic book where the artist wonders about aesthetic problems and solves them masterly... a solid argument that comic books are a major art form, even if they are still in need of a Muse...
   Jeremiah - Hermann, ©Dupuis... in a world ravaged by the final war, people search in despair the long lost familiar things...

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