Can you recommend me euro comics with sexy or cute female leads, like pic related, /co/?
The Adventures of Jodelle
Cochlea & Eustacia
Beautiful Darkness
Guido Crepax' Valentina stories
Cross Fire looks interesting. Anywhere I can read it in English?
>>84063741
Well, you already have two Alessandro Barbucci works so might as well keep going?
>>84065517
It's called Spin Angels in English.
>>84065359
>>84065584
Thanks.
>>84065576
Hmm yeah, I guess so.
It is about a girl going on adventures but honestly i can barely understand it.
Melusine
anything by Milo ManaraBarbarella
>>84067812
>>84067329
Thanks.
>>84063741
Your pic already has most of my usual recommendations. I guess you could add Ythaq (same writer as Ekhö) and Alexia's Demons to the list. You could also read the Lanfeust books if you don't mind a male lead surrounded by sexy and/or cute female side characters.
I've heard good things about the series in my picture but I haven't got the chance to actually read it.
>>84069780
>male lead surrounded by sexy and/or cute female side characters
I don't mind.
Thanks btw.
>Nobody mentioned the most beautiful female lead yet
>>84063741
I remember the fap bait that is Cross Fire/Spin Angels. Did any more books ever come out?
I'd recommend The Scorpion if you don't mind male leads. If you do you should just try to find the art book (called The Trial or something).
Anyone have scans for this? I've only read two books but it has been great so far.
Why do we not have any threads on Euro comics anymore? We used to have a general up at all times until some scanlators quit.
>>84071321
Probably cause there were so few scanlators that when those quit, there wasn't enough new content to sustain a general
>>84071391
It's a damn shame. Most of this stuff is much better quality than the crap the big two publish. I don't think the American artists and writers are strictly worse but the Europeans actually take the time needed to deliver something great.
>Check Alice's Zippyshare
>It actually has Ekhö 4 and 5
How did I miss this /co/?
>>84063741
But do they get naked?
>>84063741
Valentin and Laureline.
>>84071654
>american comics are the big two
Pleb please
What's Ehko? I love media about how other countries see Hollywood
![3809319-sophia1a[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/eYaYzQV.jpg "3809319-sophia1a[1].jpg")
I didn't understand what the plot is all about, apparently she's a wealthy orphan who could be the child of literally Lucifer?
>>84072573
I'm turned on by the concept
have a translated link?
>>84072605
mega:///#!ZJlGATCD!WPcOScZKhva9QdaaDC1UzPLXxWh1rKk42Fxwy1hhM5Q
I think this is it
>>84072666
Devil digits, is this a link? I can't open it
>>84072703
mega
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/#!ZJlGATCD!WPcOScZKhva9QdaaDC1UzPLXxWh1rKk42Fxwy1hhM5Q
>>84072760
Jeeze French are lewd
>>84063741
The Quest for the Timebird
Les Feux d'Askell (this one is pretty much porn)
Most comics by Jean-Pierre Gibrat
The Passengers of the Wind
The Cyann Saga
>>84063741
Isn't Cybersix from Argentina?
Women are inherently boring and don't make for good characters
>>84073521
>>84073055
>>84072573
>>84072287
>>84071654
>>84071097
>>84070977
Thanks!
>>84071321
Shame. Euro comics are like a staple in libraries in my country. I could scan them, but I'm not as good in English as I am in French.
>>84073065
It's okay, it's been published in an Italian magazine.
>>84073055
>The Quest for the Timebird
How could I forget to recommend this. Are the prequels any good?
![demonsalexia01_02022004[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/eoPVRa1.jpg "demonsalexia01_02022004[1].jpg")
Les Eternels, Lady S. (didn't read) and Tatiana K. and Mermaid Project are four modern thrillers with female leads.
Alexia's Demons is a nice modern fantastical story.
You've also got Marlysa, a very good fantasy series, Cassio, Nico, Valerian & Laureline (another anon already said it, but it's GOAT), Tiffany, Blue is a Warm Color, Djinn, Carmen Mc Callum, White Tigress.
If you like frisky stuff: Pandamonia, Gisele & Beatrice.
And for younger audiences: Melusine, Lou! (must read), Tamara.
>>84074019
Not as good as the original IMO, but still pretty good. The setting got much more standard med fan.
>>84067329
I'm not a big fan of how the characters are drawn, but that's a pretty cool cover with those tree spirit thingies in the background.
>>84070880
There is Olivier Rameau by Greg and Dany. The main character is a male, but it looks like there are a lot of female characters as well. I haven't read it yet, but I'm interested in it.
Also, other stuff by Dany. It seems than whenever he wasn't working on Olivier Rameau he was drawing sexy females. He made a lot of soft-erotic comics called Les Coquines or something? That doesn't seem to have a story, but Olivier Rameau is supposed to be quite good.
What was the name of the one with the witch girl
>>84074596
Melusine.
![histoiresansherostome01dargaud[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/tzAQ3QI.jpg "histoiresansherostome01dargaud[1].jpg")
>>84074569
It's good, but Colombe is more of a supporting character.
Les coquines is a humorous porn series. Quality varies depending on the issue.
If you like old school stuff, check Dany's Equador and Histoire Sans Heros (Story without Heroes). One is a series of detective stories in Africa and South America, the other is Lost, but satisfying.
>>84074596
Melusine?
>>84074674
>LOST, but satisfying
Count me in then.
>>84074674
>If you like old school stuff, check Dany's Equador and Histoire Sans Heros (Story without Heroes). One is a series of detective stories in Africa and South America, the other is Lost, but satisfying.
And written by Jean Van Hamme.. That's a name every artist wants to be associated with. Thanks for recommending! I might like them, though I prefer a less realistic art style. And it seems to me Dany is better at cartoony.
Also there is Natacha, by Walthéry and different writers.
>>84075110
It appears though that whenever Walthéry gets the chance, he will draw a character with less clothes, or no clothes at all.
I find it quite interesting how the magazines some of these comic artists started in (in the 70s), were totally aimed at kids. And the comics appearing in it had to be rather innocent, not so much as in the 50s, but still, it couldn't be too sexy. Pretty female characters were a success though, and I think at one point these artists found out they could pretty much make a living doing the thing they love most: drawing sexy females. This Walthéry guy started making soft-erotic comics at one point too.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the only comics mentioned in this thread that are totally innocent and aren't so much about making characters as attractive as possible, are Yoko Tsuno and Aria. And probably some of these >>84074203
I'm not blaming the artists or anything, I just think it's interesting.
>>84075396
Walthery drew two alternate pages for this album where the fuck.
This one is more like detective things but she is cute.
![cycledostruce01[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xaMGPD8.jpg "cycledostruce01[1].jpg")
(with very minor spoilers) The Cycle of Ostruce has two women as its protagonists.
It's excellent: "Steampunk" bolshevik revolution in pseudo-russia, with fantasy creatures.
The only issue is that it was the artist's first work, so sometimes the art is just "off".
>>84075396
I think it's partly a reaction to the soft censor of the immediate post war era.
But yeah, there's definitely a author/parental fanservice aspect to it.
Fun thing, some of the most innocent and bright-eyed eurocomics aimed at youth, Rahan by Lecureux and Alix by Martin, feature topless muscular men (and a bromance in the case of Martin's works). The homo-erotic subtext was purely non-intentional in both cases, and the authors were pretty surprised by the following they gained amongst gays.
Also a lot of european artist are doing porn aside from their main production, even those doing mainly child books. I've never seen anyone complain about it, though.
The only truly innocent comic in >>84074203 would be Lou!, I guess.
>>84075827
I found this image
And I noticed the male character is called Walter, while the artist name is Walthéry..
>>84075991
Parental fanservice? Ha, never thought about that happening with comic books, but yeah, I can see it now. Son gets himself some comic books, dad picks up one of those comics that are lying around and is.. intrigued..
>and the authors were pretty surprised by the following they gained amongst gays.
Haha, that really happened? Amazing. Reminds me of those Batman and Robin rumors. A lot of those old comics were all about guys, same goes for Tintin and Spirou and Fantasio, but those didn't really have topless nudity, I guess.
And do you mean porn that goes beyond the soft-eroticism of Les Coquines and stuff? That's all pretty much off my radar.
>>84075827
>>84076823
And there's another page, but I couldn't find anything larger than this.
Seems interesting though, haha.
>>84075991
Do you happen to have a download link?
>>84072666
god damn this is a hot and just plain beautiful comic
![WITCHposter[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ZTUkQNC.jpg "WITCHposter[1].jpg")
>>84078658
In french
http://pastebin.com/uf7gw0m8
pic unrelated, this thread is seriously lacking in italian comics.
Also Marzi, an autobiographic comic about the childhood of the author in Poland during the '80s.And now I realize that I'm as old if not more than a lot of current authors. Ouch.
Are comics still going strong in France? The comics scene seems to be dying in the Netherlands. Almost every fan is over fifty years old.
>>84079748
Yes. Manga makes for a majority of the sales for the young crowd, and apparently there's a new tax that hit authors (and other professions), but I haven't heard much about it.
The big epuration was something like 5 years ago when a lot of publishers realized that they had flooded the market; nowadays it's reasonablyt is reasonably healthy, even if a couple of promizing series died in the process.
>>84063741
Sexy Gun
Carrie
Dolly
Little Ego
Druuna
Barbarella
anything by Milo Manara
anything by Ignacio Noé
>>84079748
Hey, another Dutchman. I've been to a few comic conventions here and I definitely noticed the same.
Holy shit, anons, I just turned my back a few hours and you guys deliver a shitload.
Thanks guys!
>>84063741
Belladonna by Pierre Alary.
>>84072071
Any chance of a link, anon?
It is an one shot in FrenchIt is the end of the world in some time so a 13 years old girl goes around messing around and getting drunk and fucking and stuff
>>84080080
So I was wondering why manga is that popular in France. Because France already has a rich culture in comics with a lot of variety in what's available (story-wise and art-wise). For me it's easier to understand how manga got popular in the US, because there it would appear more as an interesting alternative to the mainstream comics that are dominated by superhero stories that have a lot of similar art styles. In France there already were many different comics in the mainstream before there was manga, (or weren't there?)
I searched for some info and if I understand correctly, manga got big when it appeared in the 90s, because throughout the 70s and 80s kids already grew up with the anime series on French TV?
In the Netherlands, and probably some other countries, anime series appeared on TV in the 90s and they were quite popular. That was basically Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh though, we never had Naruto on Dutch TV for instance. But I don't think the popularity of those series got *that* many kids to read the manga. Maybe that difference is because unlike in France, the Dutch kids had never read that many comics anyway.
>>84063741
Strong female characters in pic related, a recommendation from 2015, not geo-sorted though.
Might be more in old thread http://4archive.org/board/co/thread/77853480
>>84085353
It's kinda the opposite IMO.
Manga isn't as popular in the US as it is in France -because- the latter already has a rich culture in comics. It looks popular in the west because we're deep in the geekdom, but it's actually still a niche thing.
>>84085666
Oh alright, that's interesting. I guess the fact that the US is a much larger country with a lot more people has also got something to do with it then.. And the fact that the part of the Internet we visit is pretty much English speaking. If French people are geeky about it that might be more on French websites..
Thanks for your take on it!
>>84085991
You don't even have to be a geek to talk about manga in France. It's just that mainstream over there.
>>84086667
Wow, that's cool. I'm not a manga fan myself, but I like how something that's quite underappreciated in some countries, can be very popular somewhere else. I think it's often just about getting a fair shot at it.
>>84086824
I'm fairly certain there is a bunch of countries besides those in Asia where manga is more popular than in the US, like France and Latin/South America.
>>84085636
I've seen this chart before, but I'm planning to focus more on euro comics these days.
Got anything else?
>>84089629
Depends how far from "cute" and "euro" you want to go. Pic related is Miss Don't Touch Me by Hubert & Kerascoet who also drew Beauty. Some might say Belly Buttons has cute leads. What abou Giant Days?
>>84063741
I wish cybersix past volume 1 was scanlated. I remember watching the cartoon and wanting more.
>>84089866
>Miss Don't Touch Me
I'm never the guy to go "Oh this is depressing as fuck dude", but that comic hit me real bad just for how... real it felt.
please read les nombrils/the bellybuttons it's not exactly what you're looking for but I think you'll like it thank you
>>84081214
Yeah most indoor conventions are depressing as fuck. The Haarlemse Stripdagen gave me some hope though. Lots of parents there were buying comics for their kids there (of course it helps that it was free, outside and in the middle of a big city)
>>84083137
I especially love the art style in this one. Did they ever make a fourth book?
>>84083138
www.zippyshare.com/aliceinzululand
Tessa: Intergalactic Agent is very cute too. Hopefully someone scanlates the last two issues or it gets the official treatment.
>>84083137
That's an unofficial sequel to the Three Musketeers. Lots of fun and easter eggs.
>>84089866
This was the first comic I ever purchased
and it was because of a storytime on here
fucking book kills me
>>84084648
I need a translation
>>84091178
>>84089866
Oh I heard about that belly button comic. Guess I gotta go check that out too.
>>84085353
>why manga is that popular in France
>Because France already has a rich culture in comics
That would precisely be why. Manga is quite simply Japanese comics. And if you like comics, it doesn't matter where they're made.
Some sweet recs so far. Digging Natasha.
I'm surprised nobody's mentionned Les Passagers du Vent.
>>84085353
>I searched for some info and if I understand correctly, manga got big when it appeared in the 90s, because throughout the 70s and 80s kids already grew up with the anime series on French TV?
Yes, pretty much this.
>In the Netherlands, and probably some other countries, anime series appeared on TV in the 90s and they were quite popular. That was basically Dragon Ball Z, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh though, we never had Naruto on Dutch TV for instance. But I don't think the popularity of those series got *that* many kids to read the manga. Maybe that difference is because unlike in France, the Dutch kids had never read that many comics anyway.
I don't think you get quite the amount of anime that was on French TV or for how long. As you said it started in the 1970s, the earliest of your examples is from the late 80s. Before most people got DB(Z) we already had tons of anime on TV. Pic related is Grendizer on the cover of Paris Match in January 1979, an emblematic and extremely popular media and celebrity oriented magazine.
It may not seem like much of a difference but it means people who are now in their late 40s grew up with anime, that's a much larger fanbase than in other countries.
What others have said is also true: the Franco-Belgian comic market was and still is pretty healthy, helping creating a readerbase and a distribution model for mangas before they got there. Actual readership really stated to pick up during the 90s, when basically half of kids' shows on TV (notably the most popular) were anime, and when Glénat started to adapt a lot of mangas.
The mid-90s were fucking crazy, there was bootleg DBZ merch fucking everywhere, it was like 80% of male kids' favorite cartoon, people went batshit crazy for DBZ, to a level that the Pokemon or Naruto crazes never even got close.
>>84086667
>>84086824
Eh, take that with a grain of salt.
Most adults can only talk about the anime from their childhood and maybe a couple of Ghibli movies.
Adults *reading* (especially current) manga is still relatively niche, although not as much as in other countries.
Comics (BDs) themselves are still relatively niche, I'd say at the very least 90% of people I know haven't read a comic in the last year outside of the funny pages.
![7257996-L[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/xAcMwPW.jpg "7257996-L[1].jpg")
L'Heritage d'Emilie. A young french dancer inherits a fae castle in Scotland. takes place during the turn of the century.
Not Magnin's best book, but a very good read nontheless. And she's excellent at drawing non-euclydian geometry.
>>84085353
France and Japan have a very strong cultural back and forth. Nowadays it's mostly seen with the manga influence in french comics and cartoons (and the importations), but there was a lot of common productions (DIC comes to mind) and exchanges.
For example, french MOR music was a huge in japan during the '60s and '70s. They even got a character in Jojo's named after a french singer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IDQsKBFe_w&list=PL6iPzP1rvUQLajcXr5slxe-rW0C_mZkZG
(french singers in japanese)
>>84085636
>girls
Hgg, talk about a storytime of pain.
>>84072573
At end of part 2 (of 3), actual parentage was still a mystery but definitely had occult overtones. I've been waiting for part 3 for 7 years; is it out in English yet?
>>84080829
Noé's work is virtually through-and-through sex, the most controversial being "Convent of Hell" whose American published version actually excised 2-3 pages dealing with what was deemed pedophilic oriented material. The deleted pages: a possessed nun (mother superior) performs fellatio on a cherub (a small angel) thereby draining its life essence and killing in the process. Immediately thereafter she offers it as a sacrifice to invoke Beelzebub to have his way with her and all her nunnery. That the cherub construct was ageless seemed to completely elude the thinking of the publisher who apparently wished to avoid the possibility of any legal action by the public. Drawn by Barrerio, it is incredibly lush, wickedly satiric and incredibly hot.....
>>84074871
Anything by Dufaux, Jean Van Hamme or Jodorowsky is usually excellent...
>>84065584
This is a good comic, but I've found the follow-up to be quite disappointing. It's just the same thing over again.
I'd recommend Storm to anyone. Lots of hot near-naked women in there too
>>84067329
It's not for the Anglo market. She's competent, doesn't give a fuck, is fiercly independant and hardly ever get naked.
>>84096172
>hardly ever
So she does get naked at some point.
I guess this fits OP's criteria. I didn't like it much but others seem to adore it
Bumping with a series of decent/successful comics with female leads.
>>84097193
>Falka
>female lead
Eheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheheehhe
>>84097193
Is that Amour a Mort by the same guy as Sillage/Wake? Is it any good?
I also see what you did there with Falka
>>84097961
>Is that Amour a Mort by the same guy as Sillage/Wake? Is it any good?
Yes. The artist is that Korean dude again, he's pretty good but kinda unfocused, though this one seems to be a lot better as he's specifically imitating korean MMORPG styles rather than using his Range Murata/Shirow one.
>>84095815
Anon, the exact same image is in the OP.
>>84100093
It deserves it's own mention though for anyone who hasn't read it.
>>84063741
Cixi de Troy, a spin-of of Lanfeust de Troy
Never read it, but knowing Lanfeust, it's probably a retarded but fun story, with awesome art and a lot of nice cheesecake.
>>84102128
forgot pic related
>>84063741
>>84102128
http://www.askell.com/Christophe-Arleston.php
Here is a list of Arleston comics. A lot of them are basically "heroic fantasy + hot chicks"
I have a soft spot for Le Chant d'Excalibur. The female lead is not what I'd call sexy, but my dick has its reasons which reason knows nothing of
Well, I'm really happy to see this thread lasting that long and have 100+ replies. I was expecting it to die really fast like it did on /wsr/.
Thanks you, /co/!
Keep the recs coming if you got more of them btw.
>>84073521
Wait a fucking minute...
I don't recognize that cover. Is 327 still getting new tomes?!
>>84105099
Yup. I just checked, it's from last year and the last release before that was in 2005.. So it's not weird you missed it. I remember when that story was pre-published in a magazine and it was delayed endlessly because the author had a lot of stuff going on/was ill or something. I've only ever read parts of that story and it's the only thing from Agent 327 I've ever (partly) read. But I expect it to be quite a funny series, so I'll probably check out one of the older stories someday.
>>84105654
>>84095751
Storm and Agent 327 means there is sort of one Dutch comic series missing and that's Franka. As with the other two I have only read a few stories which didn't impress me that much story-wise, but I'm thinking of trying out some older albums.
>>84091552
That's cool. I do think comics will end up more popular someday when "graphic novels" and stuff become more mainstream. It also helps when people learn there is more (for kids) than just Donald Duck and Suske en Wiske.
>>84072573
Love this book. Chapter 3 has been VERY over due.
Apparently the original artist and the writer had a spat so it won't have the same artist, but I think it's in the works out there. Shame, I really liked his anatomy and details.
>>84103701
Yeah, great thread, I'm learning a lot here.
>>84086921
>>84094069
Thanks!
>>84094717
That's really cool.
>>84094749
>Comics (BDs) themselves are still relatively niche, I'd say at the very least 90% of people I know haven't read a comic in the last year outside of the funny pages.
Interesting, I think I met "this kind of Frenchman" who didn't really read comics, but he had gotten a Les vieux fourneaux album as a gift and liked that a lot. But that "90% of people" number on its own doesn't say that much, how does it compare to the number of people reading regular books? (I'm expecting that's a lot though)
>>84094926
That's also, really cool.
Still it kind of surprises me that, like >>84080080 said,
>Manga makes for a majority of the sales for the young crowd
But I guess they just really dig it and the impact of the cartoons was that huge.
>>84107517
iirc manga and anime is a niche kids thing in French, taken about as seriously as Naruto, although they have several French/Japanese co-productions dating back as much as the 80s. They were also just about the first country to air translated anime, Dragonball was known there in the 80s already.
BDs are common for all ages though, and read by everyone.
