mortenoc Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 Hi I want to draw your attention to the comic series "Les Passagers du vent" (The Passengers of The Wind in English and Vindens Passager in Danish). The series was created by french artist François Bourgeon in the eighties and is set in the 17th-century. The protagonist of the series is a young french noble woman, who by various reason is forced to flee french first to Africa and since to Haiti. Besides from being a very well told story (when I first read it in my early teens I almost fell in love with the main character, Isa) it features a lot of very detailed drawings of ships from that era. Find it at your local library or used book / comics dealer. I wanted to include a pic of one of the drawings, but didnt succed. Search google for images for Les Passagers du vent or Passengers of The Wind and you will be able to see some examples of the graphical style of the series. Cheers Peter Wessel 1
Aragorn Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 sounds interesting...will have to check it out.
Handuer Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 I cant find it on https://bibliotek.kk.dk are you sure its "Vindens Passager" in danish?
Dagann Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 (edited) Try with François Bourgeon http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Passagers_du_vent Another famous french XVIIIth century age of sails comic. I don't know about the translations. L'épervier Edited February 19, 2015 by Dagann
maturin Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 Is it even possible to find these in English? Amazon and the library system here has got nothing. Any ideas? I'm not about online PDFs, either. If they wanted me to buy them, they would sell them.
Hethwill, the Red Duke Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 Found them in Portuguese. We consume a lot of album BD.
Taki1980 Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 Thx for the Hint. Would like to read them in English or German. Back in my childhood i remember these here http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bdoubliees.com/seriesauteurs/sfig/avril/barbe_rouge.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bdoubliees.com/seriesauteurs/series1/barbe_rouge.htm&h=1178&w=853&tbnid=Zl7mdxcYFSyDHM:&zoom=1&tbnh=90&tbnw=65&usg=__6pm6Hq079VrtF0CK1eYfF9t86G8=&docid=E-WZCLxpRpRxEM&sa=X&ei=AAPlVJ3dGIGqU4avgJgE&ved=0CCgQ9QEwAQ i read them in german language. If someone want to take a look at it. I dont know if i can recommend them as it has been a long time since i read them.
mortenoc Posted February 19, 2015 Author Posted February 19, 2015 I cant find it on https://bibliotek.kk.dk are you sure its "Vindens Passager" in danish? Try a search on "Bourgeon". It appears that the albums are registered under their individual names (fx. "Fangeskibet") and not Vindes Passager.
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