Apart from books, I also bought a bunch of comics yesterday, so me show you them. What you see above is:
- Dallas Bar 5 — Marvano and Joe Haldeman: comics series loosely based on Haldeman’s The Long Habit of Living done by the same Belgian cartoonist who also adapted The Forever War.
- A Jean Giraud/Jean Michael Charlier Blueberry album I still needed.
- The first four albums in the Simon du Fleuve (“Simon of the River”) series by Auclair. Seventies hippy post-apocalypse sci-fi, these is the sort of series I buy as much out of (pseudo) nostalgia as for its intrisic qualities. These are not the comics I grew up with, but they are like the comics I did grew up with.
- Three Baudoin comics, published by Oog & Blik/Sherpa a few years ago and now in the sales at De Slegte, Holland’s largest remainders/second hand bookstore chain. De Slegte Amsterdam actually has quite a few Oog & Blik comics available, including books by Mattotti, Loustal and Dupuy/Berbarian, all for four to eight euros. Cheap as chips.
- The piece de resistance, Peter Pontiac’s first long form work, Requiem Fortissimo, a punk rock apocalypse, pure eighties underground comix.