Gerudo-- I think MAYBE I see what you're saying.
I.e., Nate's stuff is not strictly Euro in nature, so you're trying to 'call me out, right?'
But here's the thing, dude-- have you actually READ the purpose and backstory of this community..?
Come on, dude-- let's talk about it, eh..?
Just finished this one, and found it a fine album, indeed. It's by consistently-excellent artist Ana Miralles and writer Emilio Ruiz.
https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-90856-BD-Ava.html
For me, it was a pretty fascinating little 'time-capsule look' in to the life a major Hollywood star (Ava Gardner), her notably iconoclastic nature, the social norms of the 50's, an obsessive overload of fans, the shamelessly aggressive press, and of course, a brief snapshot of Rio de Janeiro, itself.
! https://i.imgur.com/CYtD7t5.jpeg
The unstated joke above is that Ava's agent Dave is thoroughly in to men, which works rather perfectly in the long run, as just-about any hombre swinging a 'third leg' is trying to make a play for her, somehow, some way. XD
! https://i.imgur.com/7ZJ2eTG.jpeg
Okay, Ava scared me a bit right at the end, lol.
! https://i.imgur.com/2jgBOyW.jpeg
(no idea how long these images will last given Imgur's hugely flaky nature, but what the heck, let's do FULL DETAIL with these)
Whups, oh yeah-- my main point here was actually that I LOVED how well Miralles both depicted and handled the night-life imagery of Rio in a realistic sense. I don't quite have words for it at the moment, but... I find there's a sort of 'clarity' there, if that makes sense.
Oh man, pardon the late reply, and thank you so much, compa! <3
I like how you picked out a fun representation of images to draw people in. Well done, matey. 🙂
Tell me you desperately crave more attention without outright stating it, mate?
Huh...!
Interesting.
Well, then, I guess if people don't like it, then they don't like it. (and yes, the point here is indeed ABSOLUTELY about Euro lit)
Honestly, tho-- you down-voters disappoint me. I.e. I feel like there's a place where there's a silly zone of creativity that should always be respected.
Still-- if the people have spoken, then the people have spoken...?
Actually... @Sergio@slrpnk.net, amigo, compa, et al , could you possibly, maybe mention us across those first two links, please?
There is just so much to take care over here, at the moment. And burning myself out accomplishes nothing positive IMO.
For sure, it's an 'American product,' but it's also got that European-style, sly observational quality.
Oof, I suppose we could argue endlessly upon this stuff, but at the end of the day? I feel like I'm mainly correct in listing it here. Do speak up though if you feel I acted in error. *** Oh, and I also cut down on a couple links that are no longer relevant, outdated, etc, upon yon sidebar. So you should only see eight total now, I believe..?
Thanks for sharing. <3
Interesting in that this series first came out a few years before George Lucas' SW revival, specifically with it's new Sith law of 'there can only be two,' in which the apprentice essentially has to prove themselves worthy by murdering their master.
George... I feel like you might have borrowed something from Alejandro, here!
AFAIK Juan Gimenez did most (or all?) of the Metabaron art, so yeah... same person!
https://www.bedetheque.com/BD-Impenetrable-503154.html
This image hit me fairly early-on as I was reading what I would later realise was a super-wonderful BD. But why this particular pic? Welp, because I absolutely LOVE it when comics artists find ways to reduce image detail in order to convey a clear message.
And meanwhile, as the reader, there's really nothing to complain about! Everything makes sense, and there's really no particularly good reason to add extra detail, at least as I see it.
Eh, here's the full page, anyway, in which both the author and subject Alix Garin are livin' it up in a Berlin nightclub:
! https://i.imgur.com/eBdWFql.jpeg
Anyway, BDT has this to say about the album: (with a little translation help from some idiot)
>]> In a deeply intimate and moving narrative, Alix Garin tells us about her liberating journey through the meandering, baffling nature of sexual disorders. About the struggle to regain possession of one's body and sexual desire. It is in fact a highly-moving quest for healing, emancipation and love. >]> >]> Through ups and downs, failures and victories, Alix explores the depths of her own psyche, the links between the physical and the mind, and the complexity of sexuality.
Anyway, more later on this magnificent, significant work, but here's a few more 'nightlife Berlin-style' pages I thought you might like. I know I did: :D
https://imgur.com/a/alix-enjoying-berlin-nightlife-from-superb-gn-bd-imp-n-trable-2024-jOj3luS
Oh, man...
I wish I could point a memory-hazing ray gun at my head over & over again, such that I could relive all my favorite things. Flashpoint is definitely up there, haha.
Alright, now -- c'mon 'Science-People,' let's get cracking, eh!?!
Thanks! IIRC I hit up the 3rd, but didn't know about the first two. Adding...
If you're the founder of a community that runs Lemmy, then you should be automatically senior mod. If you're not sure, and as mentioned above, you could add a dummy mod acct.
Wow, wonderful.
I'm kind of curious about what the Russian card game is on the left, but it seems a bit elusive based on a search.
IIRC, 24 users were immediately transferred over here because they'd originally subscribed to the old EGN via their PieFed.Social accts, a nice little perk of the transfer tool.
So it looks like 72 more have signed up since, I suppose down to the little bit of 'advertising' I did here & there, plus word of mouth. Yay! My biggest hope of course is that most (or all) of our future posts will be seen on the collective "ALL" streams across our mutually connecting services, i.e. Lemmy, PieFed, and whatever else, because that's mainly how we built up the original user base, I believe.
But yeah, I suspect you're exactly right-- most of our total subscribers at the old place were in fact defunct, which was to be expected, really. That said, total subscribers still has some positive impact in various ways, just one of which was to help boost visibility in tools like this:
https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=graphic+novels
EGN+ used to be the #2 result there when searching "graphic novels," and user count definitely played a role in the formula. By being #2, we had more visibility, which I do believe helped drive even more subscriptions.
Anyway, I'm not trying to kvetch so much as try to explain how the loss of even defunct subscribers can still hurt where it counts. But... we'll see what happens. 🥲
Both a late reply and an 'oops' on my part: what I meant about 'Image size' was not image dimensions, but file size. So far I've kept it very low when posting here, but just now I made a post with a ~411k uploaded JPG. Sound good, or should I aim for either more or less?
Also, based on your comments, I understand that since my community is on the flagship instance, I can expect such images to last as long as PieFed.Social does. Please correct if that's wrong, and thank you for what you do(!)
I'm imagining the title here being "Going for a new tattoo?," based on the sign. It's by German cyberpunk artist Puia, who runs Baka Arts. As of the moment it doesn't look like he's doing any BD, but I think he'd be a great fit.
There's loads more of his cool LC-style stuff at his Instagram. Note: the entry link below doesn't need you to be logged in to see the images.
INSTAGRAM: https://imginn.com/bakaarts/ *** So, I'm currently finishing up a small project to look through every migrated post here, deleting where necessary, but mostly adding 'flair,' which you should be able to see on the sidebar. When I'm done, you'll be able to hit any of those buttons and see a curated list of matching posts.
Still a few things to do before I feel like this place is 'up to speed' after the move, but it's getting closer and closer. One annoying problem is that almost every inter-community link that's been posted here which once worked, is now broken, and even as the same community runner, I can't edit them except to add flair. Perhaps this is a feature that will one day be added across the Fediverse, though?
Anyway, the biggest blow of course remains the loss of almost 1200 subscribers, meaning we're somehow right back to where we started from in needing to get this place more exposure, some how, some way. Sort of ironic I guess, in that August 1st will mark our two-year anniversary. 🥴
Thanks for reading, and have a nice weekend, everyone. ^^
Ugh, sorry for the late reply. So, just to be clear, when you say "PixelFed," I'm seeing two main starting points, i.e. PixelFed.Social And PixelFed.Org.
Any advice on where to begin..?
] > https://discuss.tchncs.de/ is managed by the admin behind https://tchncs.de/ , as you can see, they offer quite a few services: https://status.tchncs.de/status/tchncs
Thanks; cool stuff. I just hope there's enough resiliency and backup in terms of personnel, such that such projects can go on indefinitely.
] > In your situation, have you ever considered hosting a blog rather than content directly on Lemmy/Piefed? That might be an easier way to manage the content over time.
Well, there's the rub-- by no means did I set out to create a blog-like project, rather that's what it happened to drift towards over time. My main intent was to create as close an alternative to r/bandedessinee as possible due to Reddit's self-immolation at the time. I didn't want it to be about me, but about community participation, eventually with other people overseeing the project, with myself being more of an occasional contributor. This is doubly the case due to significant health issues and living in a place currently drifting towards... some pretty disastrous general outcomes.
But yes, I've tried doing a couple blogs for awhile. I frankly prefer the Reddit/FV approach because I don't have to be as perfectionistic, 'complete,' and me-centred, plus it let's me work more in a style intended to get general discussion rolling.
As I said above, if PieFed / etc eventually offered the ability to assign transferred content with matching usernames to the new account, that would pretty much solve things for me. Or if the community owner had the ability to modify old content (showing that in a public log of course), then it would also solve things. I don't feel like I'm hoping for too much here, but maybe I'm wrong...
Good point, but one which also maybe shows how this kind of thing can be completely arbitrary. I.e., there's nothing else in English that sounds like "tor-til-a," so in most ways it doesn't really matter, same as with the Texan city of Amarillo.
"Guerilla," however...
IIRC as the article already mentioned, these were the kind of his moves that were quite unique, experimental and even trail-blazing. I thought the first SW was a pretty interesting yarn, even if this kind of thing later got turned in to a product. But that was going to be the case, regardless. Anything successful was always going to be imitated until turned in to product.
Here's a place to share some fun links, browser games, and chitchat about whatever... *** LINKS:
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Play the randomly-generated Tintin quiz !
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Behold the amazing Floor796 animated character project. (see how many famous BD characters you can spot)
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Browse the utterly fascinating Marginalian blog, in which the author regularly takes deep dives in to the arts, literature, philosophy and so forth, tying everything together in delightful, thought-provoking, and uplifting ways.
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Play the quiz "Who are these ten classic characters just about to appear?" [ Answers ]
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Enter a trance-state via the ever-scrolling ZOOMQUILT and ZOOMQUILT2.
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It's free ANIMATED MOVIE NIGHT. (four films and five shorts) [NOTE: Some of the links there are to the matching lemm.ee posts, but I can't edit them from my new acct. A simple search will quickly turn them up, though.]
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Play thousands of your favorite old flash (and other browser games) via the amazing Flashpoint Project. *** ! *** GAMES: (I'll be adding pictures and a table in future)
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ARMOR ALLEY, arguably the greatest side-scrolling helicopter game of all time.
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SOLITAIRE BATTLESHIPS, and ~40 other excellent puzzle games.
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KONKR, a simple but challenging series of tactical boardgame battles, something like RISK, but powered up with special forces.
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POLYTRACK, a fun, tough set of low-poly tracks to race through, directly inspired by TrackMania.
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PRINCE OF PERSIA, a browser version of this legendary classic. (Note that this version allows you to tweak time, health and level number right in the URL!)
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Return of the SLIMEPIRES, a super-fun, totally original, zombie-themed platformer. [Note: there's a higher-res version here]
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ROGUE FABLE III, an excellent roguelike that only takes an hour or so to beat, featuring loads of interesting character classes. [WIKI]
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SABOTAGE, an hilarious but tough, top-down action game, loosely based on the early-80's classic Castle Wolfenstein, but with much smoother gameplay.
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SPELUNKY, hands-down the greatest roguelike platformer ever. Simple to get in to, but be warned that the learning curve is immense. Fortunately, there's a super-helpful WIKI.
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TOWER-SWAP, a tremendously fun, original, addictive mashup of the match-3 and tower defense genres, both of which I'm ordinarily kind of fatigued by. *** Well, there's a reasonable start. Much more to add in coming weeks and months, and of course feel free to nominate your favorites. Or just to chat about whatever...
So-- I would love nothing better than to host every image on Imgur and call it a day, except that Imgur is just \lol with that business. I.e., in some cases, I have stuff that's been there for ~10yrs with no issue, and then there's a bunch of other stuff that routinely gets deleted after 3-4mos or so.
Not trying to ramble here, but my concern is that I don't want to weigh down our host, and instead want to find the 'right pocket,' i.e. a good-size image file that let's me show off our image content, but isn't a burden upon our host.
Plus of course, sometimes showing off a certain series requires ~10 images or so, meaning the image-serving requirements are 10x the nominal requirement.
In cases like that, I have no problem uploading such content to Imgur, even if it's not going to last long, but... I kinda want to figure out how I should handle these things, if that makes sense...
Thank you for any and all advice.
With much thanks to PF's site-runner, as well as good advice from @Blaze@piefed.social, we've successfully moved!
NEW ADDRESS: https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels OLD ADDRESS: https://lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels
On the positive tip, we were able to preserve ~390 out of ~550 historical posts, so that's better than starting over. On a more sobering side, it looks like we're going to lose most of our (current) ~1,260 subscribers, and PieFed being a different instance, running different software, it's not clear to me if we're going to get the same exposure to "ALL" streams that we once enjoyed.
While it's true that I can invite individual members to join, it seems that (unlike PF), the Lemmy software doesn't allow me to see a list of subscribers, even as the founder and head mod. If anyone has any ideas on that, feel free to advise...
In any case, I hope you find something you might like at our (now smaller 😅) community / sub-lemmy.
When using the 'migrate tool,' I don't seem to be seeing a 'closing message' as I'd hoped, but maybe the form isn't set up to give me one? Eh, whatever. So then, here's an extra confirmation attempt to make it clear that I'm asking PF to migrate my classic Lemm.ee community over to PF, as follows:
https://lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels wants to turn in to: https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels
With the specific request post being here: https://lemm.ee/post/67797135
Thanks for any and all help getting it sorted, <3 Johnny