I was poking around at the library the other day, I and I was quite surprised to find a large amount of European comics. Just about all of these were in French, and I was quite surprised to find that alot of them are out of print, and, in many cases, have never been translated into English.
One such gem is
La Route d'Armilia , sixth in François Schuiten’s and Benoît Peeters’s series
Les Cités Obscures--Cities of the Fantastic. Only four of the seventeen volumes of this breath-takingly beautiful series of graphic novels has been translated into English, and La Route d’Armilia is not among them. Which is too bad, as I’d love to know the story behind the young boy and his zeppelin trip to the North Pole. There’s a brief synopsis
here, but that doesn’t really tell much more than you can gleam from the gorgeous, gorgeous pictures.
Case in point:
I've got some more
Les Cités Obscures--all in French, natch--and I'll put up som more scans if folks want. But I'm curious. From what I can find, Schuiten and Peeters are sci-fi icons in France and Belgium, but I've had alot of trouble finding anything about them and their work on this side of the Atlantic. Has anyone else read them?