A short Blacksad story

ziritrion · Post by **ziritrion** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 1:33 -0700

Browsing around the internet, I found this little webpage dedicated to Blacksad, one of the best comics I've read in the past few years. This webpage also had a rare 2 page long Blacksad story featured in a nowadays-dissapeared magazine. I've taken the liberty to rehost the story and post it here, just click on the 2 thumbnails to read it, or just take a look at it if you can't read French:

The webpage has also many goodies like ex-libris (beautifully drawn sketches), pictures of various cons, etc...

ziritrion · Post by **ziritrion** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:35 -0700

Just in case somebody needed or wanted a translation of the panels, here you have it (it's pretty rough, my French isn't so good). Each panel is read from top to bottom.

Page 1

Title: Like dog and cat.

"Hotels are really curious places"

"People from the four corners of the world between the same 4 walls. People who change their residence, but don't change their practices"

"As if they played the same immutable scenario, written since the night [end?] of times"

"Twelve hours without having eaten anything, and I'm not even hungry. I feel like if my stomach were tied up"

Page 2

"Perhaps I don't manage to swallow the [feeling? I can't figure out this word] of always seeing and seeing again the same scenes like a monotonous, unmatched [uneven?] melody, whose scattered notes are unable to form a true music [song?]"

"My stomach is restored little by little. The night threats to become long, but I know what I need to help me digest this moment"

"A coffee..."

"...and a friend"

miyamoto musashi · Thu Sep 23, 2004 13:43 -0700

i live in canada, so they make us learn french good

ziritrion · Post by **ziritrion** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 13:50 -0700

In that case, you don't need the pseudo-translation I made

miyamoto musashi · Thu Sep 23, 2004 13:51 -0700

but im guesing thats france french, and not quebec french

takematsu · Post by **takematsu** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:31 -0700

...which is, of course, musketeer-era French. Initially, I mistook the thread heading for "A Strongbad story", which seemed entirely wrong on this forum

ziritrion · Post by **ziritrion** » Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:34 -0700

If it were a Strongbad story, then it'd be AWESOME, dontcha think?

miyamoto musashi · Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:42 -0700

HOLY CRAP!

"keep on tranglin, larry pat"

good ol sb