Chaland Anthology: Freddy Lombard : The Will of Godfrey of Bouillon/the Elephant Graveyard/the Comet of Carthage - Hardcover

Yves Chaland

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1930652917 ISBN 13: 9781930652910

Publisher: Humanoids Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Presents the adventures of Freddy Lombard and his friends Sweep and Dina as they cause trouble around the world.

About this title

From Booklist

French writer-artist Chaland (1957-90) is comics' Shelley or James Dean--the exceptional talent who, at the height of his powers, died in an accident. Adept at humor and adventure, he set most of his stories in the early cold war period, roughly 1948-62, to cast a slightly less nostalgic aura around plots and characterizations reminiscent of 1930s screwball-comedy and romantic-thriller movies. The Freddy Lombard stories seem to blend elements of Lubitsch, Capra, and Hitchcock. Freddy, pal Sweep, and girl friend (though not necessarily girlfriend) Dina gad about Europe and Africa on Freddy's uncle's money or, when they must, the wages of short-term jobs. They hunt treasure, rescue endangered youngsters, and must be heroic at all times. With modifications to accommodate Dina's gender, they're the three musketeers, or Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and David Niven in Gunga Din, all over again. Their first adventure, which includes a long Crusades-era interpolation, is drawn the most simply yet is at least as intricate as Carl Barks' classic Uncle Scrooge McDuck adventures. One caveat: in the first, African-set part of "The Elephant Graveyard," Chaland's caricatured black characters strike contemporary American eyes as distastefully stereotyped. Otherwise, superb entertainment. Ray Olson
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Edition details

• Publisher: Humanoids Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1930652917
• ISBN 13: 9781930652910
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 136