Guest 3 – Omniscience, by Le David Gauthier
Here comes the third guest strip! (Yes, in case you missed it, there was a strip last Thursday, and we will keep having two updates a week until the end of the month.)
David Gauthier is a REAL graphic novel artist based here in Quebec City, who recently saw his first book, Le poids du vide, (in french) published.
Our styles being wildly different, I just told him to do whatever he wanted in order to be comfortable, and I was happily pleased with the results.
Here, he envisions Laurence as the all-seeing goddess of Laurier, the mall where the girls often hang out after noticing her strips tend to show up after mall themed strips. (And that there’s an actual giant poster of Laurence featured in those strips’ background…) Seems like Laurence wants to get involved in the affairs of mortals so we can have more ship.
This girl is so mysterious.
Go pay a visit to David’s blogs, Le David Gauthier – BD and
Le David Gauthier – Le reste. (Even if you don’t read french)
It’s like Laurence is an extra-dimensional being or something…
He might not be wrong on some accounts.
Oooh, quite an idea :)
That’s an amazing drawing style by the way.
If it is about posters then Frédéric must have his own worshipers, and even Liliane if I am not wrong. Laurier is like Olympus :)
I know, right? I just love what he does. His girls, especially.
And lol.
Hey everybody!
I noticed that we are almost ten days into March and the comic have only 43 votes. That’s around 5 a day, far too little!
The voting button is just there at your right, it takes only two clicks (seriously, two clicks) to vote and it helps DEZ to gain new readers.
Come on people, show the man some love, will you? :)
Query: is there a limit to how many comics one may vote for?
No. Quoting TWC:
“You are allowed to vote once per machine per 24 hours for EACH webcomic”
IE you can vote for as much comics you want, once each. Also you can repeat it for each machine (IP) you use. And also you can repeat that every day. Votes accumulate along one month.
Anonymously vote a comic takes around 10 seconds.
I have been voting every time I visit but I only get to vote for Frivolesque once every 24 hours, so everyone who reads the comments should vote each day you visit, if we can get Frivolesque to show up in the Top 100 for several days in a row at least, it will give Dez’s comic more exposure and more readers thus giving Frivolesque more loving it deserves.
Tumblrs filled with ladies with swords? Google translate offering to translate the page, and failing hilariously?
Looks like tomorrow morning is going to be entertaining, because those are extremely relevant to my interests. The boob cards, not so much, but they’re certainly funny.
I like this guy’s art; it has a sort of casual intensity to it.
“I like this guy’s art; it has a sort of casual intensity to it.”
I agree. I wandered around his sites a bit, and liked it.
I did not get it all but the cards seems to belong to a fictional card game, it is a central plot in a comic of him that is into production right now.
It seems that all his works are available only in hard copy (printed). Some of them had appeared in the magazine “Zidara 9”.
Just in case, the often used term “BD” stands for french “bande dessinée” which literally translate as “strip cartoon” but I think you can take it as plain “comic”.
Yup, the cards are for a short comic he’s making for Zidara 9, which is a science fiction anthology fanzine released here in Quebec City. And yes, BD (or bédé) means “Bande dessinée”, which is the french word for everything from comic books to comic strips to graphic novels.
And yeah. Like most comic artists in Québec, David is mostly following the influence of the franco-belgian “bande dessinée” community, which means hard copies, magazines, and blogs. The typical webcomic is something that’s never been that popular in the french speaking world for some reason. You’d be surprised how many casual people don’t understand the concept of a webcomic. “wait, there’s no book?”
I guess it’s an “english thing” inherited from the newspaper strips of old.
Yay, love all that information, thank you :)
Actually many web-cartoonists do started re-publishing their old newspaper strips as webcomics.
Then they keep going on until success enough to re-publish their old web strips as books :)
Could be that webcomics are just beta-test books? That could help to easier the understand :P
The “boob cards” are actually some in-universe thing for a short comic telling the story of some sad geek in love with his little fictional ladies.
…Sounds like someone I know.
And David is just great.
That plot seems totally up my likes :) I did not find reviews, or examples more than single panels or covers yet, but I guess I probably would like his stories.
“…Sounds like someone I know.”
Hahaha, you Pygmalions (*) are all the same :)
* NotFred’s desperate attempt to hide the envy… fails *
(*) I mean the mythological one
Now I can’t think of her as anything else but goddess of the mall.
I was already thinking that way about Marie-Neige :)
Advertising just got that much creepier…
This is pretty surreal, I like it!
Wow, ca me fais un peu penser à du Tomine à un certain moment. J’adore le style monochrome.
Hey DEZ, and everybody, if you do not mind I have something for you to check, it is the last update of a chinese comic, it is like a dick move since it is kinda spoiler (not that anyone ever doubted it will come to this but still) however I just now saw it and turned being soooo much sweet that I need to share or explode :) so here it is:
Wait, wait, context, the brunette has a crush on the blonde, who is starting to being aware of it, and she recently managed to actually meet her, now they just encountered while a sudden storm and went to a store to take some shelter (phew) Now then:
http://yaoi-blcd.tumblr.com/post/112884746725/03-6-2015-update-from-tan-jiu-translated-by
Enjoy :) (I hope)
Thanks. That was a cute read :)