I'm not a great reader of BD so I'm afraid you've already read more than what I could rec, but here's my favourite in case it's of any use to you : Corto Maltese by Hugo Pratt, a very big classic serie full of beautiful atmosphere, adventures, esoterism, travels, treasure hunting, pirates, revolutionnaries, and lot of corners of the world in the first half of the 20th century. Candélabre by Algesiras, intriguing and beautiful story of fantastique with canon slash. Peter Pan by Loisel, a prequel story of Peter, at turns wonderful, gritty, gruesome, dark, imaginative and fey. De Cape et de Croc, swashbuckling furries, very funny and fun and plotty, dozens of references to the great French classics of theatre & poetry Garulfo, a very funny fucked up fairy tale; where being a frog might be better than being a prince Légendes des Contrées Oubliées by Chevalier, read these a long time ago but it left me with a striking memory. Heroic fantasy, of a rather dark and macabre kind. Fées et Trendres Automates, poetic steampunk.
You know, regarding French literature - I've always been struck by how most paperbacks in France seemed to have white spines LOL, that's certainly true. Actually within the French SFF fandom we often refer to mainstream lit as "litérature blanche", which I always felt was rather fitting as pointing out the lack of diversity of the literary elites :p SF books are usually silver, purple or with big, flashy illustration thankfully. I like the flashy (And the romans noirs are either indeed black, or sometimes yellow-ish - go figure)
I read very few French books outside of SF (actually even there...), but I ooccasionnaly like historical novels, so there I can recommend Aamin Maalouf's books.
France's lit scene is certainly snobbish, so it makes sense it would drive the people intent on telling exotic, epic, weird stories to other media, yes.
I mostly read in English as well nowadays. Sometimes I feel guilty of it because I know there's still at least some good French books around, and I feel out of touch with these. But there's always so many books to read and so little time... >_>;;
Re: French comics
Corto Maltese by Hugo Pratt, a very big classic serie full of beautiful atmosphere, adventures, esoterism, travels, treasure hunting, pirates, revolutionnaries, and lot of corners of the world in the first half of the 20th century.
Candélabre by Algesiras, intriguing and beautiful story of fantastique with canon slash.
Peter Pan by Loisel, a prequel story of Peter, at turns wonderful, gritty, gruesome, dark, imaginative and fey.
De Cape et de Croc, swashbuckling furries, very funny and fun and plotty, dozens of references to the great French classics of theatre & poetry
Garulfo, a very funny fucked up fairy tale; where being a frog might be better than being a prince
Légendes des Contrées Oubliées by Chevalier, read these a long time ago but it left me with a striking memory. Heroic fantasy, of a rather dark and macabre kind.
Fées et Trendres Automates, poetic steampunk.
You know, regarding French literature - I've always been struck by how most paperbacks in France seemed to have white spines
LOL, that's certainly true. Actually within the French SFF fandom we often refer to mainstream lit as "litérature blanche", which I always felt was rather fitting as pointing out the lack of diversity of the literary elites :p
SF books are usually silver, purple or with big, flashy illustration thankfully. I like the flashy
(And the romans noirs are either indeed black, or sometimes yellow-ish - go figure)
I read very few French books outside of SF (actually even there...), but I ooccasionnaly like historical novels, so there I can recommend Aamin Maalouf's books.
France's lit scene is certainly snobbish, so it makes sense it would drive the people intent on telling exotic, epic, weird stories to other media, yes.
I mostly read in English as well nowadays. Sometimes I feel guilty of it because I know there's still at least some good French books around, and I feel out of touch with these. But there's always so many books to read and so little time... >_>;;