Interesting!

I don’t have Netflix, so I really on you all to share some samples, if you can! <3

I’m fully onboard with all the critique listed here, but I’m afraid I do still use R on a daily basis. Why? Because of sheer (and original / non-bot) traffic, I guess.

This tends to mean that highly-useful, knowledgeable, expert-level commentary is still produced there in significant quantities, even if it does mean sifting hard through the dreck to find it. And that stuff can be hugely useful to me.

That said, I feel like Lemmy has a significantly higher signal-to-noise ratio, so it doesn’t have to be remotely as big as R in order to achieve the same level of usefulness, and indeed, L is certainly useful right here and right now.

But I guess the other thing is that most of the smaller and niche communities here could really use a membership boost. Maybe with the next reddit screw-up, that will happen, hehe.

Great stuff, with a sort of dark, ‘Saturday Evening Post’ style. Also a nice throwback style to strips that went back to the 60’s and even 50’s.

Salut, Valmond!

Yeah, I found Exquisite Corpse both hilarious and delightful. One of my favorites.

Oh wow, and it sounds pretty funny from the summary.

XD

I’ll keep it in the rotation, then.

Thanks, pal.
I’ll check it on my phone.

YT absolutely destroys Firefox, for some reason.

I’ve always been a huge fan of James Gurney’s work on the Dinotopia series.

Huh! My last ‘true love’ upon such a series was upon the 70’s Land of the Lost, directly revealing my age-range, I suppose. But Dinotopia sounds really interesting, so you got me right there!

His work got me into watercolor and oil painting. To me, he’s my original love of the medium.

Really, now?
Speaking as a watercolor artist myself, just… fluffing oils?

I mean… that period in TdF was totally fascinating, but also a pretty harsh, bleak, and tragic history and place. And yes… I still have a couple more posts to make.

Meanwhile,
https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-12279-BD-Esteban.html

Glad you enjoyed!

Is there any particular genre of GN that you like?

Explain?

FWIW, I freaked out once over something relatively minor across the Lemmy-modality, and the dev (one of the two, can’t remember which) was just a calm, gem of a person upon my temporary paranoia.

Man, I was… blown away.
(thought I was going to be banned to hell, yadda-yadda)

Um, well, I find that comic kind of ‘demonstrative’ and ‘in your face,’ as if everything is trying to make a strong impact, or impression. I don’t mind the facial art in terms of basic layout and skill, but at time there’s also this melodramatic kind of over-expressiveness that I’m not a fan of. It reminds me of modern Disney films, which I don’t enjoy too much, a lot of that due to the characters having to be ‘on’ all the time. Wise-cracking, chattering loudly, facial expressions whirling from one reaction to the next… all that stuff.

Euro-stuff (and it’s bad to generalise, I know), I find tends to be more matter-of-fact, more subtle, more ‘in-the-details’ to me for the most part. More psychological in nature, one might say. Altho of course there’s also some gonzo, weird, arty stuff like Klaus Nomi (Deutschland) or Hurra Torpedo (Norge) songs, just to conjure a type of style.

I don’t know. What do you think…?

Ah, I’ve read that one before.

I like the art, and don’t mind the NSFW aspects, but just as I’m trying to avoid manga-style work, I’m also trying to avoid American-style work, and this one is ultra-heavy on… I guess I might say ‘style and showiness,’ which I tend to associate with American culture and artistry. I could say more, but I think I’ll leave it at that.

Don’t get me wrong, please-- I love my dose of Bollywood, Shaw Bros HK films, Zucker Bros films, and so forth, but those showy, stylish works are designed as self-parody in many ways, the same way BACK does it, above.

Honestly, finding even semi-Euro-style webcomics in English is just NOT easy, so I do appreciate your efforts, mate.

Since I first posted this list some months back, I’ve found a few more entries to add, but only time, and snooping through hundreds of candidates, got me there. It simply isn’t easy finding the right stuff for this list. :S

Interesting, thanks!

I’m reading it now…

I don’t mind it, but it’s got a very ‘manga’ feel, which actually I’m trying to strictly avoid in this list.

Haha, good old OGLAF!

Mentally, I kind of put it in the “Sexy Losers” class (remember that one?), being clever and sex-themed, amongst other vibes. But in terms of what counts, which is ‘Euro-vibes,’ first and foremost, I’d roughly class it in the periphery of Euro-style web-comics, I think.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work.

For example, I’ve had fairly good success upon a range of animal companions going back to early childhood, but a few years ago, I made the mistake of taking on a ‘problem cat’ from a family friend.

Such a beautiful creature, but she just couldn’t… settle down, I guess are the words. Now me, living with a terminal disease is already hard, but unfortunately, that rascal just turned it up to ‘11,’ bless her lil heart. So in the end, I had to donate her to a local no-kill shelter. Not my finest moment, but the lack of sleep was pretty-much the lynchpin, for me.

I love cats, but I just… haha, kinda got spooked hard by that experience.

Bandes dessinées, which I’ve linked in the side bar.

(hope you can see it?)

Dang… the art is sensational!

Thank you so much;
I’ll be reading this in the coming days (or weeks?) to see if it fits.

EDIT: re-started from page one, and at that point it was just so… awkward and melodramatic. *sheesh*