Aaand we’re back. So sorry, my provider went for a hissy fit just as I went on holiday with not enough internet to do anything about it. It’s fixed now, but if anybody has a good, cheap host they can recommend?
This was the first time I’ve been on holiday with my family since (thinks) 1994, back when we we’re last all living together. This time, we instead got my foster brother and his family, my sister and her family, as well as my parents and youngest brother; luckily we weren’t all staying in the same holiday house, but it was still a concentrated blast of family I hadn’t experienced in a long time. Fun was had by all, but two weeks were just long enough for me. It’s interesting to spent so much time together now we’re all in our thirties and see how easily we still somehow slip in our old roles sometimes…
Anyway, going to France meant of course buying some comics; and unlike the last time we went on holiday there, this didn’t mean buying French copies of Marvel titles (I was fourteen). Instead I went to a very nice comics shop in Montpellier, Azimuts, where the woman vbehind the counter was very enthusiastic about Baru, also one of my favourite cartoonists. So here’s what I got:
- Several volumes of Boulet‘s Notes series
- The first volume of Trondheim’s Petit Riens.
- Two Moebius collections
- The last volume of Adele Blanc-sec
- Two Baru books recommended to me: Fais péter les basses, Bruno! and Quéquette blues
- Finally, Le Bleu est une Couleur Chaude by Julie Maroh, which has already been made into a movie.
That last one is the one I’m most excited about, though it’s hard reading what with my fairly limited high school French. Oh well, at the very least I can look at the artwork, which is brilliant.
What I also noticed in France was how manga were everywhere; even the local hypermarket had several shelves full of them, more than of French comics, with all the popular series (One Piece, Naruto, etc) you’d expect.
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