"Blueberry"

[SerbsInSpace]

"Blueberry" was one of my favorite comics when I was a teenager, and along with "XIII" inspired me so much so as to go on and spend 7 years trying to write my first novel (which ended up being a 700-page stylistic mess, I'm afraid).

In any way, what you've read of the story are really the best parts. The first five albums make up the "Fort Navajo" cycle, which is a very long and somewhat traditional western with a lot of twists that is somewhat hard to get through.

I've never read the "railway saga" that followed it, chiefly because I missed some of the hard to track back-issues that reprinted them here in Serbia. Everything following that, starting out with the search for the lost mine was very inspired and made me re-read it time after time.

With "Arizona love" the series pretty much ends, with story picking up in several spin-offs. There's a "Young Bluberry" series, really a series of short stories, that details his experiences during Civil war, constantly changing sides in a fashion as confusing as Fort Navajo. Among those is a tale of how Blueberry got his nose broken which is an amusing anecdote, but nothing more than that.

There is also a "Marshal Bluberry" series, made up of 3 albums that spotlight the art of "XIII"'s Vance, also a non-essential tale that takes place after the events of the treasure-hunt cycle that you've reviewed.

The last entry in the series has been "Mister Blueberry", about Blueberry's last days as a gambler in Tombstone. Just like "Marshal Blueberry", I found it an interesting side note, mainly for Giraud's art.

Any way you look at it, "Blueberry"'s a major comics release, and is sure to stand the test of time as a premiere Europian western comic.

[FunkyGreenJerusalem]

Just on the Blueberry film - it's not great, and often boring, until you get to the climax - the two main characters (bad guy and good guy stops applying) fight it out on (although it's more just journey across) the spiritual plain (and all of time and space) - and honestly, it's possibly the best use of computer effects I've ever seen, and comes the closest to rivaling the climax of 2001.
The rest of the film really is just a set up to that sequence - putting pieces and philosophies into play to explain it.
In comic book terms, it's probably closer to Promethea than to Blueberry.

Edit to add:
Why the scorn for Cassel?
He's always an entertaining actor, and does the job of playing Blueberry quite well.
(And for fun, in Irreversible, gross-out comic fans noticed the 70's Marvel Captain Marvel poster hanging above the couples bed! What could it mean?)

[Libaax]

I read Blueberry for the first time few months ago. I liked most for the art.

My first book was vol 7 in swedish, it sounded wierd in translation but good story,art.

The first volumes are pretty hard to read with the hole Navajo fort cycle.

Speaking about Cassel, i like him but Blueberry movie was horrible even way before i knew of the series. When we rented it we laughed at how it was....

[rorshach1982]

The first and only exposure I had to Moebius wasn't actually an exposure. I had heard about the Incal and when I saw a copy of the 1st volume when Humanoids was being distributed through DC and thought I'd pick it up. I'd enjoyed the Metabarons. And then I found out it was an entirely different artist as the collection in the first volume was a prequel to Moebius' work. It was still quite good.

Jodorowsky is a treat though.

[Royd]

Great to see discussion of the Blueberry albums here! I thoroughly enjoyed the few English translations of Blueberry from Epic all those years ago and in a bizarre twist, I have recently taken on the role as Colin Wilson's original art dealer! Colin illustrated 6 of the La Jeunesse de Blueberry albums including:

Jean-Michel Charlier and Colin Wilson
1. Les démons du Missouri (The Missouri Demons)
2. Terreur sur le Kansas (Terror Over Kansas)
3. Le raid infernal (The Train from Hell)

François Corteggiani and Colin Wilson
4. La pousuite impitoyable (The Merciless Pursuit)
5. Trois hommes pour Atlanta (The Three Men from Atlanta)
6. Le prix du sang (The Price of Blood)

And I should mention that I am handling the sale of Colin's original Blueberry pages from 4 of the albums (there are only a few pages left from Les Demons du Missouri and Le Raid Infernal so Colin has closed off the sale of further pages from those 2 books).

There are still quite a large number of pages from the other 4 Blueberry albums illustrated by Colin and I can provide any interested Blueberry original art collectors with a full listing of available pages and prices. At present, I only have 4 pages with me, the rest are with Colin but easily retrievable for sale. I have sold a number to happy customers throughout Europe over the last 4 months and they can be seen at Comicartfans.com. Also available for sale are "warm-up" illustrations and supplementary pieces from the Tirage de Tete editions featuring Blueberry and other characters.

I am also selling Colin's work from his many other books (eg. Du Plomb dans la Tete, Rogue Trooper, Judge Dredd, Battler Britton, Thunderhawks, Rain Dogs, Point Blank etc.). You can see many of these pages here -
http://tinyurl.com/dgt6ep I can be contacted at roydster@yahoo.com if interested in chatting about the purchase of an original Blueberry (or other) page :) Best,

Royd Burgoyne
Perth, Australia
http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=111

[mrjcomics]

I'm currently reading fort navajo series. Really like it! heard the movie is so bad compare to the comics.