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New scanlation. From Coeurs Vaillants #30 (1957 07 28). Thanks for u/Abject_Truth_6091 for helping me figure out the third panel.

Arzak Rhapsody - TV mini series from 2003 - Compilation of 14 short stories follow the adventures of Arzak.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0292760/

https://youtu.be/oMJ9WRj0XiQ

Une enigme policiere dans l’ouest: Le tireur solitaire (2 pages, 1966 10 13)

(“A Police Mystery in the West: The Lone Gunman”)

Writer: George Fronval

Pilote #364 (1966 10 13)

Gir Oeuvres T2: Le Tireur Solitaire (1983 05) (b&w)

Blueberry Intégrales 3 (2015 11 27) (color, but printed ¼ size)

Had some fun trying to make some proxies using artwork i love, here is some of my favourites! I took the liberty to change the frame color to fit more the theme hehe

Oringal title: "L'épopée de Larsen et de Nordenskjöld"

Original publication: Coeurs Vaillants #24 (1958 06 15)

Recently collected in De Gir a Moebius: Le lac des emeraudes (2019)

Thanks to u/Abject_Truth_6091 for translating two of the dialogue balloons that stumped me (well, really they stumped Google Translate). Sometimes in language, the meaning of words doesn't really correspond to their literal meaning and Google Translate sometimes fails to pick up on this distinction.

This was a special "April Fish" issue of Pilote, with the fish-theme throughout and the fish border around the "prank" episodes of the various comic strips.

Gir usually numbered his pages multiple times as they were drawn in tiers, so there would be 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, etc (sometimes including a C tier as well). This prank page is numbered 43Y and 43Z, a nice detail. Also I should note that the story here picks up seamlessly from page 42, so eager readers who rushed right to Fort Navajo may have been fooled.

If you follow the instructions at the bottom of the page, you reach a note on page 47 that reads: "How could you believe such a thing? April Fools!”

Thanks to u/Abject_Truth_6091 for providing the source material and translating the second panel. Thanks to u/JethroQ47 for a quick tip on how to easily piece images together.

This initially appeared in a fanzine. I couldn't find much info on it but I did find the front cover and what I assume is the back cover. I will post those in the comments.

This strip appeared in the inner gatefold sleeve of Eddy Mitchell's album 7 colts pour Schmoll. Giraud did additional artwork for the album which I will post in the comments below.

I've read conflicting dates for the year of publication: Gir Oeuvres T2 has it as 1964 in several places, while both Discogs and French Wikipedia have it as 1968. I don't know how it was in France, but for the USA record market in the 1960s, elaborate gatefold artwork was much more of a thing in 1968 than in 1964. There was a huge shift toward presenting rock LPs as art objects beginning circa 1966 that I believe really hit the mainstream in 1967 with Sgt Pepper.

Thanks to u/Abject_Truth_6091 for sending me the French pages!

I've previously read the Blueberry volumes published by Marvel/Epic and Graphitti Designs, but recently decided to use fan scanlations to go back and read the entire series (at least all the episodes drawn by Giraud). While reading volume 4 (The Lost Rider aka Mission to Mexico), I discovered this page was missing.

I made this scanlation not remembering there is already an official English version (Fort Navajo vol 4: Mission to Mexico, published in 1978). That volume is hard to find so I understand why people resort to scanlation versions.

Anyway, the work is done. A lot happens on a single page of early Blueberry! The first five volumes make one continuing narrative and I hope they'll eventually be retranslated and collected with great image reproduction, etc. Those of us who can only read English tend to be dreamers when it comes to Blueberry!

Thanks as usual to u/Abject_Truth_6091 for help understanding some of the French phrases.

Thanks to u/Abject_Truth_6091 for posting the original French pages a while back. As noted in that post, "La guerre des Mikes was first published in Pilote 2008 Special, and it's available also in the ninth Dargaud intégrale of Blueberry and in the 2022 boxset of Inside Moebius, published by Moebius Production."

This page was later used as the cover of Deconstructing the Incal.

www.tonychaoillustration.com