European Graphic Novels+

https://www.google.com/search?q=suske+en+wiske&udm=2

I've never understood why this simple, delightful children's comic keeps getting randomly renamed for evidently zero reason. What the heck, man? "Bob & Bobetter?" "Spiking Suzy?" "Willy and Wanda?" (why not just throw in the dang chocolate factory?) "Luke and Lucy?" (no, I don't want to see that soap opera again)

Daggit, maties-- Suske en Wiske is not that hard to say, it seems to me.

Not unlike James Bond strolling up to the minibar and suggesting something like "Whish-key, no watta."

So... unfortunately, this is going to be very 'ME'-based, and I'm not a big fan of that in general. Oh well. Eat your crow, Johnny. Gobble it up, please.

So, so, so-- I had a bit of a meltdown here last Thursday, ranting a bit and posting generally useless threads. First and foremost, I apologise to the community, and hope I haven't harmed its reputation too terribly much. I also want to talk about what happened to cause that, and what's going to change, going forward. Fact is, it was a killer-combo of things that day, so maybe I'll just list them out:

• BURNOUT: For a long time now I've been aiming for a 'post per day,' because I wanted to stock up the community with lots of content, such that users could dive in to it whenever they liked and have a good, long, fun read. As a matter of fact, after hitting the one-year anniversary mark on August 1st, we actually did average over a post per day, in large part thanks to my co-pilot Nacktmull. At this point, however, I think it's time to retire that goal and NOT artificially push myself as hard on that stuff, anymore.

• PERSONAL HEALTH: I happen to have CFS/ME, which tends to be an incurable, fatal disease. In effect, I'm fairly-exhausted 24/7, and have a fraction of the stamina that most people my age do. My wrists, feet, and lower back regularly ache, and I spend about 95% of my awake-time lying on my couch. I'd love to do lots more (including exercise, which I adore), but unfortunately when I DO, I tend to get something called "PEM," just like others in my boat. Anyway, this disease is hugely & regularly frustrating to me, and it literally (not figuratively!) seeps in to almost every part of my life. For some quick examples, I had to end my career at around ~30yo, and various relationships are just too hard to maintain, sadly.

• BOOZE: To be perfectly honest, I was having some vodka drinks that day. I'm not proud of it, but one thing alcohol crazily, wonderfully does is to temporarily mask my pain, as well as artificially boosting my blood sugar. And of course, too much can obviously get me off the track of 'production mode.' Yeah, whoops......

• FLAWED: One of my other frustrations here is that I get the impression that people wrongly conceive of this place as my personal blog, with the occasional brilliant guest appearance, but that's not something I never aimed for, nor wanted. I think my posts are generally good, interesting and informative, but I'm not some super-human-production-machine here, and frankly I rather resent being looked at that way. So in a sense, I don't mind letting the mask slip at times, revealing that I'm just as much a flawed, troubled doofus as the poor chap down the road, who lives in a makeshift tent on public land. I mean, say what you want-- but I'm sure that guy/gal has their talented qualities as well. At least, that's how I'd like to think of such things, y'know?

• DISAPPOINTMENT #1: Honestly, I'm disappointed in the readers here. I've repeatedly welcomed anyone to post any sort of thought or material related to BD, and yet the more the subscribers seem to grow, the less prone they seem willing to do so. Almost as if everyone's waiting around for ME to furnish my content, read as they like, then move on to something else. Wellsir, that is definitely NOT why this community was founded. Indeed-- I still haven't had a single response to the volunteer requests I made last month. And please understand-- these are light volunteer jobs that require a very small amount of effort on a weekly basis.

• DISAPPOINTMENT #2: Altho I LOOOVE my host & instance, I really can't say that I'm super-happy with the Lemmy community au total. As in-- when a bunch of us broke away from Reddit over a year ago (and note that I'm straddling the line under my same username there, haha), to me I thought the main idea was just beautiful, specifically involving a P2P, open, volunteer-based alternative, free of corporate greed. Well, as of now, the future of the FV (including Lemmy) still seems unclear, and frankly I'm a bit gobsmacked by the relative-lack of community-spirit here, in which I thought there might be far more common affection for the whole project. Not from the people who made real sacrifices (because they DID!), but moreso from a theoretically involved, knowledgeable userbase. Instead, no-- it's almost like Spez' freakout from a year+ ago, plus the way Reddit just doubled-down on extracting value from their userbase, essentially never happened. To me that's both creepy and weird. Shame! Shame on everyone here for thinking 'they had no personal responsibilities, nor gratitude for the new place.' And shame on you all who bought in to that.

• SHAKY PROFESSIONALISM: Despite everything said above, this indeed is my self-appointed volunteer job, and I don't think it's good to have little meltdowns very often, and I doubt this is really the place for making "a cry for help." So again, I apologise to everyone, and... tell you what-- I'm going to be looking after my own health better from now on, which immediately means retiring the 'aim for one post per day' mentality. Indeed, let the record show that this is YOUR community now, and no longer my 'personal blog.' Now if you're wondering how I am as a moderator? I've had almost 25yrs of experience as a mod, super-mod, admin & head-admin across a variety of sites, some with hundreds of thousands of users. In any case, my general aim is to listen with kindness and find amicable solutions, where possible.

Hey, thanks for reading, folks!
Haha, I guess sometimes you just have to embarrass yourself sufficiently in order to make the proper course-change, mais non?

EDIT: oof, I forgot the pic. This seems to be from outside a prison in Gdańsk!

A riff on an old joke, but a relatively safe place to start, I guess. Things will only get weirder.

https://i.imgur.com/qBJcot0.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/H3i2VBl.jpeg

Artist Herr Seele ("Mister Soul," did I get that right?) was born in 1959 as Peter van Heirseele in Torhout, West-Flanders. His father was an office clerk and his mother a professional painter, who stimulated her son's artistic interests. His grandmother Valerie Haesaert was also an artist, and once won a national award for amateur painting. As a child, van Heirseele already drew complete comic book stories. --Lambiek

https://i.imgur.com/BcHL2Yl.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/xsznHSp.jpeg

Writer Kamagurka, real name Luc Zeebroek, was born in 1956 in Nieuwpoort, a town near the Belgian coast. He came into the world with a bad Achilles tendon, which left him with crooked feet. The boy was bullied and suffered tremendous pain until an operation solved the problem. In the hospital, a young patient in the bed next to him died. All these traumatic experiences gave Zeebroek a combative attitude. In his opinion, life is so absurd, tragic and meaningless that it's best to not take things too seriously. Growing up, he therefore wanted to turn everything into a joke, even severe tragedies.

https://i.imgur.com/cSfvqcS.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/GpyHhf4.jpeg

More (and I mean more):
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/seele.htm
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kamagurka.htm

It's by Tintin pastiche-artist Harry Edwood!

(and just like Beldar the Conehead, he comes from France)

The pic is of course a tribute to arguably the most famous album cover of all time. (it's also in our banner, if you can pick it out)

Side note: There's two people who I can't quite figure out at the moment. They're both in the 3rd row, 4th from the right and 4th from the left. Both have grey-white hair, and are wearing shades (prescription sunglasses). Anybody know..?

Credit to my genius Reddit friend-- u/dunkelbunt235.

Theme song: Charline Mignot, et Dormir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTx7Skm30uQ

Just bumped in to this artist's work the other day, and I find them both hilariously pleasing and pleasingly hilarious. A bit like Lewis Trondheim's style.

Check out all the goodies:
https://www.tumblr.com/caloucalou
http://caloucalou.unblog.fr/

TAGS: Lucky Luke

It's a non-standard vampire-thriller (4 tomes) by a great writer-artist duo, Jean Dufaux & Enrico Marini. [BDT]

Just before the above, our two detectives leap for their lives:

https://i.imgur.com/AIPNTa6.jpeg

While two raptors comfortably watch, a brother and sister:

https://i.imgur.com/S18uBSo.jpeg

Hundreds of years before, a ruling council of vampires decided that in order to better manage humans, they should embrace the light, renouncing their traditional, raw meat & blood-loving ways.

Now, one member of the council vehemently objected, the father of the two we see above. He was destroyed, and his children became bitter enemies of the 'new-age' vampires, who went on to rule humanity in secrecy.

Over time, the new-age vampires developed vulnerabilities that the raptors used to assassinate them, conducting a vendetta-based campaign of terror. Meanwhile, detectives Lenore & Spiaggi are assigned to investigate...

https://i.imgur.com/xIqqr5A.jpeg

...later, Lenore somehow manages to straggle home. (just above)

https://i.imgur.com/DkYoZzW.jpeg

On top of the fact that this was a cool, movie-like thriller, I enjoyed the added historical and political elements, plus the existential questions posed against the two vampire factions.

I also found the ending shocking but satisfying, in which there's a tragic, yet uplifting 'changing of the guard.'

It's a minor classic I'd say (it's really good), and another feather in the cap of Dufaux, who consistently churns out fascinating series. Same for Marini, really.

Imladris was also known as "Rivendell" in the J.R.R. Tolkien mythos. Interestingly, both The Hobbit and LotR used this Elven refuge as a key staging-point, but somehow it felt like I was discovering it afresh, each time. (are you taking notes, Peter Jackson & Disney?)

I'm also a little sheepish to admit that all the lovely pieces here are, to the best of my determination, AI-created! (damnit, but they fooled me at first)

Ahhhh, so what the hey-- let's empty out this drawer and move on. Now, the reason I chose to lead with the above is because we'd been sorta talking about Tolkien's stuff recently, and the above piece reminded me a lot of his early illustration work (yes, he was also a pretty-decent artist who worked in a 'turn-of-the-century' style).

Okay then, the following might be a bit random, but--

https://i.imgur.com/MVArIH8.jpeg
Now where might that be..?!

https://i.imgur.com/pEkNSNx.jpeg
Another stained-glass style lighthouse, sorta-kinda.

https://i.imgur.com/FLI2Zk1.jpeg
As someone who used to sail a bit, I love these. Of course, being AI-generated, there are a slew of similar pics out there, for better or ze wurst.

https://i.imgur.com/D5D2DSb.jpeg
San Francisco streets, credit to MidJourney specifically!

I'd say hold on to your hats, though! In retrospect, there's a bunch of art here that helps explain its origins, but in future? I would say all bets are off. *gulp*

(i.e. AI-art will doubtless keep improving, so stuff like this which fooled me initially but which I later managed to bust, will likely bust ME, in future)

https://lemm.ee/post/7895573
Hello, @Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world!

EDIT: Corrected a couple typos & errors, plus added a little context to help make things clearer.

Welp, I had something of a personal catastrophe this past weekend, but am finally recovering. I must say, though-- when there are little gaps like that, it sure would be nice if one of the readers could step in and post whatever.

Okay, enough whining.

So, I just finished re-reading the first color work by the fascinating "Blutch" [BDT], made in 2002. TBH, I feel like I need to re-read it a couple more times to get a better sense of it, but for now I can say that it's a surreal series of interconnected scenes that have a movie-like touch, not unlike the work of David Lynch or Fellini, perhaps.

Two women are the lead characters, with the one above ("Lola") struggling to deal with her merciless dance instructor, her absurdly eccentric father, and of course, a big galoot of a celloist chasing her skirts. Oh, and also Renée, the other lead, an obsessed writer who wants to do a book about Lola. The overall tome however is really about the absurdness and even scary sides of humanity, as reflected nicely in the drawing style. Blutch is definitely NOT after pretty, conventional LC here!

Here then are the first six pages of Vitesse Moderne:

-----> https://imgur.com/a/tHqiinO <-----

Btw, I find some major similarities between Blutch's work and that of the great Frederik Peeters of Switzerland and Grégory Mardon of France. All three seem willing to look at the human beast straight in the eye and give you notes that you might not have thought about or wanted to see in comics.

In conclusion, I don't know if I'd call this book a 'classic,' but it's a mature work, worthy of many re-reads, that might just feed some part of your soul (or intellect).

It's from the superb, two-tome series Through the Walls, by Jean-Luc Cornette & Stéphane Oiry.

So this is just a ramble, but in terms of the thumbnail, I really liked the transition between the 'dinner and the road' just above, plus the theme-shift from red to yellow to blue/green, again above.

Indeed, overall across the series I found that there were light, playful (yet somehow precise) touches everywhere. Almost like a chortling intelligence at work, just playing little sandbox games for us to enjoy, haha.

Whoops, and I'd completely forgotten about Stéphane Oiry in terms of his art projects. In fact, he's one of the two geniuses involved in perhaps my favorite GN of all time, i.e. Maggy Garrisson.

Alright, alright, let's read the story, chapitre deux:

------> https://imgur.com/a/UjIMe14 <------

Btw, the writer Cornette is another good one to follow. We should really get to more of his work, too.

Trailer

This is the best sci-fi I have seen for years, and I do not mean animated sci-fi but sci-fi in general! The beautiful artistic style of the show is heavily inspired by the art of Moebius, Hayao Miyazaki, Philippe Druillet and Alexandro Jodorowsky and also references such beloved classics as AKIRA, ALIEN and many more. Please watch it on Netflix if you can, it will increase the chance of a second season of this masterpiece getting produced. The ones of you who have already watched it, what do you think?

I love this mashup of styles, in which I'm seeing both Mucha, ancient art, ancient architecture and Jordans on the feet!

My only frustration is that try as I might, I haven't been able to find the original artist. Using reverse-image searches I've been able to come up with a couple names, like "Ely Ferreras," "Samuel Huynh," and others, but so far it seems like maybe they were just people who shared the art on their social media streams. Or maybe "Ely Ferreras" is actually the name of the subject / piece?

Bahhhh, I don't know.
Anyway, you'll get a gold star from me if you can definitively solve the mystery via your internet sleuthing skills. 😀

Specifically these are from T1: Le dieu vivant. Frankly I've only skimmed the book so far, but wanted to add some long-overdue Comès content, since I'm not sure I got to him before.

Storywise, a wandering astronaut ("Ergün") is forced to land on a class-M planet, and Flash Gordon-like, has to deal with any number of strange peoples vying against each other. Then things go in to a sort of Conan the Barbarian direction, in which the hero is put to the physical test many times. Near the end there's also a stunning revelation that reminded me a bit of Planet of the Apes.

While the above might sound like Comès simply pastiched popular works of the day, in fact this was his very first GN, one in which he played the triple-role of writer, artist and colorist(!) Being from 1974 it's a bit dated, yes, but is quite impressive given the circumstances, and I'd say still holds up pretty well today as some classic BD 'pulp.'

Dieter / Didier Comès was born in 1942 in Sourbrodt, Belgiam, a small village in the east. His father spoke German and his mother Walloon & French, and he defined himself as a "bastard of two cultures", a characteristic of which we will find traces in his imagination. When he left school at 16, he worked as an industrial designer in a textile company in Verviers. At the same time, he learned about music. He was especially interested in jazz, trying his hand at percussion, and only came to comics later.

In 1969, he wrote Hermann, a gag strip published in Jeunesse du Soir. In 1973, Pilote published the first episode of "Ergun the Wanderer, The Living God." The second episode, "The Master of Darkness," would not appear until 1980 by Casterman. In 1975, the man already considered to be the spiritual heir of Hugo Pratt, wrote L'Ombre du Corbeau. It was in 1980 that Casterman published Silence, an album which established Comès reputation, and for which he abandoned color for the technique of black and white. Later came La Weasel (1983), Eva (1985), L'Arbre-Coeur (1988), Iris (1991) and La Maison Where Trees Dream (1995). Comès passed away in 2013. --Bedetheque & Johnny

(side note: why do I love skeletons so much?)

In Lambiek's entry I think one can see the Pratt influences:
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/comes.htm

I stumbled across this series while going through the Moebius art-book Chaos. Only info given is that it´s a series of commercial illustrations for Europe-Assistance. I did a little research and found out that it´s a travel insurance company based in Belgium. Further research revealed that the series was printed as a limited album, titled Europ Assistance : Une belle Aventure, for internal use at Europe-Assistance, as an exclusive gift. Nowadays it is a rare collectors item, sometimes sold privately for around 100€.

Beautiful 20-page album presenting Europ Assistance, its history and results, etc. The kind of (in-house) promotional document that will no longer be produced at this level: more than just illustrations, Moebius has created a real universe to accompany this presentation. Exceptional!

This reminds of Sur l’étoile, the exclusive short comic Mœbius did for the company anniversary of Citroën in 1983, which introduced the characters Stel and Atan and later became the basis for the beloved The World of Edena series.

Epic® Graphic Novel: Moebius™ —Chaos™. Art & Story copyright © 1991 Jean “Moebius” Giraud. Translation copyright © 1991 Starwatcher Graphics. All rights reserved.

The above art is "Le bain public," by Thierry Martin.

So, we just had a server / code glitch seemingly delay (or hide?) some content, but then when fixed, it looks to me like federation has actually been improved. For example: offsite instances and links (like WP, fandom, and even mindoki.com) had not been showing up properly in Windows' Chrome for me, until just now.

If anyone else has been through issues like these, I'd greatly appreciate that feedback.

Spirou (literally "squirrel") is one of the most venerable BD characters & franchises, going through something like nine creative teams or single creators over the years. Part of the reason for this turnover is that the originator, Robert Velter, sold the rights to Dupuis early in its history.

(an alternate layout)

Spirou's uniform is based on being a humble lift (elevator) operator, but it was artist-writer André Franquin who turned the character in to much more of an adventure figure. I understand that the current team (Yoann & Vehlmann) have now turned him in to a superhero(!)

I've tried to assemble the best versions of these graphics that I could, then did some upscaling and simple editing. Enjoy.

(and an expanded layout)

Lucky Luke: Finally, we've arrived at the home of the Shava-Shava. We can spend the night here; it's a tribe of old friends.

Man: Gosh! They have amazing totems!

Ran-Tan-Plan: These Indians are crazy!

This panel is from a tribute collection, Asterix & His Friends, with art by "Achdé."

RANDOM RESOURCES:

• The History of German comics: [1] [2]

• News / review sites, some with forums: [BDgest] [ActuaBD] [Bedetheque] [1001BD] [BD Amateur] [BD Zoom] [BoDoï] [aVoir-aLire] [9emeArt] [BD Lire]

• Ampton's amazing reviews & reflections on the albums of: Tintin and Astérix.

SOURCES OF PHYSICAL & ONLINE EURO COMICS OUTSIDE EUROPE:

Among North American comics publishers releasing a growing number of translations are Comixology Originals, Fantagraphics, First Second, IDW, Insight Comics, Lerner Graphic Universe, Lion Forge, NBM, and Uncivilized Books, as well as U.K. and Canadian houses that market their titles heavily in the U.S., such as Drawn & Quarterly, Nobrow, SelfMadeHero, and Titan.

• NetGalley.com -- "Publishers and authors offer free digital graphic novels to the NetGalley community of book advocates and industry professionals."

SOME SOURCES TO HELP FIND POSTING CONTENT:

• https://9emeart.tumblr.com/
• https://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/
• https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=bande%20dessin%C3%A9e
• https://heavymetalmagazine.tumblr.com/
• https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/category/bande-dessinee/
• https://classiccomics.org/thread/75/european-comics
• https://bande-dessinee.blogs.la-croix.com/
• https://bande-dessinee.tumblr.com/

Indeed, I've used a lot of these to help inspire me, and of course the news / review sites (listed earlier) are also great for finding content. And then there's Lambiek.Net, an awesome site for finding biographical info for individual creators.

COMMUNITY IMAGE BACKUPS:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HY_-yjoEfws5IBVGL368QL15jE4eCJMZ/view?usp=drive_link

Why this community?

Good question. 😅
Well okay, in some regions (I'm thinking Japan and the USA), BD might be kind of unknown, but around the world, I assure you, they're quite popular, and in fact go back all the way to the 20's - 30's era (more HERE). Indeed, one of the earliest BD's, Tintin, was turned in to a major motion picture in America, Indiana Jones-style, made by director Steven Spielberg in 2011.

Now, while BD might be the 'core' of European comics, Franco-Belgian comics are only part of the whole Euro comics experience. For example, there's British (Pat Mills, Bryan Talbot, Alan Moore), Spanish (Paco Roca, Segura y Ortiz), Italian (Fior, Manara, Pratt, Crepax, Bonelli), German (Mawil, Schultheiss), Polish (Rosiński & Makuszynski), Dutch (Kolk, Wit, Kuijpers, Seele) and many other terrific Euro comics creators worth a look. Not to mention, plenty of great creators working in similar spirit from around the world, such as Richard Corben from the States, Alejandro Jodorowsky from Chile, and Breccia, Noé, Giménez, Varela & Carlos Nine from Argentina.

So to sum up-- this sub/community strives to represent an excellent, all-locations body of BD-style work, starting in Europe, but not always well-represented across other comics sites.

Can you recommend some good bandes dessinées to me?

Sure. There's a nice, descriptive Library of Congress list HERE, and I'll shamelessly link to r/bandedessinee's additional collections THERE. Personally, I can add on with my roundups of artists who worked on great works HERE, and post-apoc themed series THERE. Also, most of the 'mini-review' and 'sampler' posts we make in this sub are meant to highlight the better stuff, so please check those out HERE. Finally, I can certainly recommend the excellent, thoughtful, short-form reviews by u/Titus_Bird THERE, and the interesting, page-length reviews by Augie De Blieck, who's been writing in-depth articles about BD for decades now, over at Pipeline Comics.

Where can I pick up such comics, both in physical and digital format?

In the States, I've been pleased to see over the years how many bookstores and libraries have started carrying graphic novels, of which there will usually be a healthy BD subsection. Many libraries also feature an 'online lending' ebook service, through which one can read graphic novels via Kindle, tablet, etc. For example, in my area there's both Libby and Hoopla, which link through my library card. Check out your local services!

As for purchasable ebooks online, there are many options, but I'll need to research this further to build a good list; stand by! (note to self: what about Izneo, ~~Europe Comics~~ for starters?

Hey! In terms of mainly-Euro options, let's go with this set of recommendations for now, once again from our helpful, badass friend u/Titus_Bird, with u/goug: Amazone.es, Lireka, Rakuten, Momox, AbeBooks, FNac and Giver Joseph. (source)

And our colleagues:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bandedessinee/comments/1dya327/hey_rbandedessinee_lets_make_a_list_of_the_best/

When was this community founded? (and why?)

That would be August 1st, 2023, and it was in direct response to Reddit's owners famously abusing its mods, content creators and app developers (complete coverage of that in a comment below). At that point, looking around the 'Fediverse,' I couldn't find a BD community, so I decided to get the ball rolling on Lemmy.

Can I contribute here, such as by making posts?

Certainly! I try to do my best, along with my Mœby-lovin' buddy "Nacktmull," but there's so much to cover in Euro comics that we could always use more contributions, such as news, samples of comics pages & art, and reviews.

Tips for posting-- 1) I strongly recommend including an image at the top of your post, which gets turned in to a thumbnail for browsing purposes. This helps people quickly engage with your content.; 2) When including significant text in the body of the post, it can help to refer to such text in the topic title, for example by saying "(see notes)." Otherwise, people might assume you're just sharing an image, react to it, then scroll on.

What about NSFW content?

Our policies directly flow from Lemm.ee's #4 rule, "no pornography." That's the single-most important thing to keep in mind, and the following is meant to help guide the sharing of non-pornographic, NSFW content:

1. When sharing explicit content (genitalia, extreme gore, disturbing themes, etc) in the thumbnail / lead image-- please use the official tag (via the lower-left posting button). This will result in the image thumbnail being blurred out and a red "NSFW" tag appearing to warn browsers.

2. If the lead image is milder in nature (e.g. light nudity, dark themes), or when explicit content is shared in the body (not the lead image) of the post, it's okay to simply add “[NSFW]” or "[mature]" to the title of the post, as appropriate.

3. Clarifying the "[NSFW]" text in a title will almost always help. For example, one might say "NSFW-- physical trauma" or "borderline NSFW" or whatever makes good sense.

The point of the above is to help prevent users from accidentally clicking something they wouldn't want to see due to being at work, having specific sensitivities, etc. We feel that's just good netiquette, and in the spirit of what this instance (site/server) is aiming for. So that's that. Feel free to use your own judgement in these things, but if the post is reported, we mods may need to take action. Thank you! 😮‍💨

What about sharing my own content here?

To be clear-- the focus of this community is to post news, reviews, content & pictures by established BD and 'Euro+' creators. That said, we also feel it important to encourage amateur artists, whoever & wherever they may be. To this end, our current policy is to allow any sort of post you like promoting your own sketches, ideas, finished art, and WIP's ONCE per month. We also recommend 'making it a good one,' showing as much of your stuff as possible, like in a 'roundup' post with multiple content.

In the meantime, may we also recommend these three communities in which homegrown artists are encouraged to share their work and get helpful feedback-- 1) Watercolors (!watercolor@lemmy.ml), 2) Art (!art@lemmy.ml), 3) Drawing (!drawing@lemmy.world).

--Johnny & Nacktmull