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Is There not a Better Way? (a plain comment upon bureaucracy) (Mathieu) (6 pages) (i.imgur.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll be honest-- outside of my champion B&W artist-hero Jaime (i.e. Mexican-American Jaime Hernandez), I really do love fine, water-colored comics. But then... dash-it-all, THEN I demand a nuanced, real-world storyline on top of that! I mean, how ungrateful can one get??

Which brings us to this little "JC Acquefacques" classic, which I really didn't like at first. Well, at least for me, I felt it strangling, Kafkaesque, horribly dated, annoying, and just plain irrelevant, TBH. But then... page after page... I started smirking, then giggling, then finally... my eyes just blazed with admiration. (is that a phrase? well now it is!)

----> https://imgur.com/a/6luNkBt <----

YES, I know... not everyone's going to like this niche, meta series, which tends to express itself in rather 50-ish terms, but for those interested--

LBK:
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mathieu_m.htm
BDT:
https://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-201-BD-Mathieu-Marc-Antoine.html

EDIT: hahaha, there's even a song for this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA142IsjQiE

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Enjoyably surreal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I like how the artists works with black and white surfaces and I really dig the Brazil (Terry Gilliam, 1985) vibes, on the other hand I don´t appreciate the meta level introduced by the letter, it´s kills the immersion imo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Haha, Gilliam definitely comes to mind, and I loved Brasil.

Unfortunately, the first book as a whole might not be for you, as it's pretty much built around the theme of mysterious pages directly mirroring the overall comics' pages. That said, it does some other funny stuff, too.