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FOUND GRAPHIC NOVEL, OR COMIC

We had the gutters replaced recently - not your ordinary gutters, either: square-sided zinc-lined channels like small canals, running all the way round the house, out of sight behind the tops of the walls - and while the young man was up there on the roof, or, just as perilously, while he was exploring the dark mysteries of the long-neglected, floorboard-rotten upper floor of the barn, he found a French comic book from 1978. In a strikingly postmodern mix of genres, its story has cowboys and alien monsters:



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2 comments:

  1. Jonathan Chant19 May, 2014

    What a find. Can't read a word of French, but it looks like gripping stuff.

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  2. Wee Tommy05 June, 2014

    Interesting. I'd also be curious to read one of the ones advertised on the back cover which, if my French is correct, seems to be about Randy Doodler, the evil bagpipe player. Very intriguing. By the way, US comics were doing cowboys and aliens stories long before 1978...

    https://s3.amazonaws.com/CopaceticComics/CopaceticGallery/KidColt107.jpg

    http://www.comics101.com/guestlecturer//images/view.php?src=../news/Guest%20Lecturer/42/2tomahawk.jpg&w=

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