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Chaland, Œuvres Complètes #1
Chaland Anthology #1: Freddy Lombard
Freddy Lombard and friends go on four adventures spanning Belgian castles and African jungles from this Eisner Award-nominated creator! These classic stories exhibit the elegant design that made Chaland a legend among cartoonists and animators worldwide. First volume of the acclaimed series by European "ligne claire" legend Yves Chaland.
136 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 1996
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About the author
Yves Chaland
50 books11 followersYves Chaland (French: [iv ʃalɑ̃] was a French cartoonist. He was a master of the ligne-clair style
During the 1980s, together with Luc Cornillon, Serge Clerc and Floc'h, he launched the Atomic style, a stylish remake of the Marcinelle School in Franco-Belgian comics.
Chaland published his first strips in the fanzine Biblipop when he was 17. During his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Saint-Etienne, he created his own fanzine, L'Unité de Valeur, in 1976, with Luc Cornillon.
In 1978, they met writer/editor Jean-Pierre Dionnet who hired them for his comics magazines Métal Hurlant and Ah Nana. These pastiches of 50s comics have been collected in the album Captivant. In September 1979 he married designer Isabelle Beaumenay-Joannet.
He then created the characters of Bob Fish, Adolphus Claar, Freddy Lombard, and Le Jeune Albert, a scamp character living in the Marolles, a working-class area of Brussels.
Yves Chaland, was approached to draw an adventure of Spirou et Fantasio, appearinging in half-page installments of the weekly Spirou magazine. Done in a retro 50s style similar to his influences Jijé and André Franquin, both former artists on the Spirou feature. The unfinished story has been collected in the album Spirou et Fantasio – Hors Série, No. 4 (Dupuis, 2003).
He also did many advertising illustration commissions in his crisp, clean, "retro-modern" cartoon style.
Chaland died on 18 July 1990, following a car wreck, at the age of 33.
During the 1980s, together with Luc Cornillon, Serge Clerc and Floc'h, he launched the Atomic style, a stylish remake of the Marcinelle School in Franco-Belgian comics.
Chaland published his first strips in the fanzine Biblipop when he was 17. During his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Saint-Etienne, he created his own fanzine, L'Unité de Valeur, in 1976, with Luc Cornillon.
In 1978, they met writer/editor Jean-Pierre Dionnet who hired them for his comics magazines Métal Hurlant and Ah Nana. These pastiches of 50s comics have been collected in the album Captivant. In September 1979 he married designer Isabelle Beaumenay-Joannet.
He then created the characters of Bob Fish, Adolphus Claar, Freddy Lombard, and Le Jeune Albert, a scamp character living in the Marolles, a working-class area of Brussels.
Yves Chaland, was approached to draw an adventure of Spirou et Fantasio, appearinging in half-page installments of the weekly Spirou magazine. Done in a retro 50s style similar to his influences Jijé and André Franquin, both former artists on the Spirou feature. The unfinished story has been collected in the album Spirou et Fantasio – Hors Série, No. 4 (Dupuis, 2003).
He also did many advertising illustration commissions in his crisp, clean, "retro-modern" cartoon style.
Chaland died on 18 July 1990, following a car wreck, at the age of 33.
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April 14, 2022
Este volumen incluye los tres primeros álbumes de Freddy Lombard: El testamento de Godofrío de Bouillon, El cementerio de los elefantes y El cometa de Cartago.
Las historias de los dos primeros álbumes son ligeras, un batiburrillo de influencias que se deja leer con agrado. En el tercero se incorpora Yann al guion y nos ofrecen algo distinto: una historia de tono onírico y un tanto críptica que requiere más de una lectura para ir pillando todos los matices, pero que acaba calando.
Pero es en el apartado gráfico donde estos tebeos me han deslumbrado. Después de la lectura lo he dejado varios días a mano, en la mesilla, hojeándolo cada día, resistiéndome a devolverlo a la estantería. Lo que hizo Chaland en pocos años me parece increíble.
Las historias de los dos primeros álbumes son ligeras, un batiburrillo de influencias que se deja leer con agrado. En el tercero se incorpora Yann al guion y nos ofrecen algo distinto: una historia de tono onírico y un tanto críptica que requiere más de una lectura para ir pillando todos los matices, pero que acaba calando.
Pero es en el apartado gráfico donde estos tebeos me han deslumbrado. Después de la lectura lo he dejado varios días a mano, en la mesilla, hojeándolo cada día, resistiéndome a devolverlo a la estantería. Lo que hizo Chaland en pocos años me parece increíble.
March 6, 2013
Got this on a whim. The style is similar to the Tin-Tin series. This volume has three story lines. The stories move along nicely and then seem to fall flat on their face at the end. Maybe it's something wrong with the translation.
January 21, 2025
Goodreads gooit deze nieuwe, luxueuze editie van Sherpa op één hoop met de Franse, Spaanse en Engelse versie, maar de samenstelling is anders, met een 'dossier' over de Nederlandse publicatiegeschiedenis en een andere selectie van verhalen: Het Testament van Godfried van Bouillon, De Verzamelaars en Het Olifantenkerkhof.
February 10, 2015
A superb gem; Yves Chaland is one of the BD greats; his art is familiar but fresh, his characters are the same way, and his framing and storytelling are smart. The Humanoids translation (by Kelly/Watson) is remarkable and evokes Bell/Hockridge or Turner/Lonsdale-Cooper rather than the loathsome modern translations of, say, Spear and Saincantain at Cinebook.
The final story, The Comet of Carthage is the strongest and weakest of the three. The plotting is scattershot and it flits around without scene transitions so much that I seriously thought there were pages missing from my book. It's really bizarre, and it's ultimately not clear what the characters are doing, why they're doing it, or what's even supposed to be going on. But the scenes themselves are hot stuff, and maybe it's all some bold attempt at avant-garde storytelling (it's certainly bold). I don't think it succeeds, but it's impressive. The scene where a tense conversation is depicted by focusing on inanimate objects around the room is really interesting, and the proceeding action sequence (seen here) is soooo gooooodddd. But yeah Chaland must have been on some serious drugs when he wrote that story.
The final story, The Comet of Carthage is the strongest and weakest of the three. The plotting is scattershot and it flits around without scene transitions so much that I seriously thought there were pages missing from my book. It's really bizarre, and it's ultimately not clear what the characters are doing, why they're doing it, or what's even supposed to be going on. But the scenes themselves are hot stuff, and maybe it's all some bold attempt at avant-garde storytelling (it's certainly bold). I don't think it succeeds, but it's impressive. The scene where a tense conversation is depicted by focusing on inanimate objects around the room is really interesting, and the proceeding action sequence (seen here) is soooo gooooodddd. But yeah Chaland must have been on some serious drugs when he wrote that story.
November 1, 2020
Art is amazing but the stories were interesting but not riveting. Maybe something was lost in translation but I didn't think the writing was that compelling. I liked Chaland's art work, very cool, but the characters only seemed to two-dimensional cut-outs. Perhaps this wasn't his best stuff but I think this will be it for my foray into the Chaland body of work.
July 6, 2019
I enjoyed his take on Hergé and Tin Tin but perpetuating the racist caricature of black people in service of maintaining that style was unnecessary and a huge disappointment. The third story also seemed to make less sense as the story progressed.
September 5, 2025
He leído que hay que releer a Chaland para llegar a apreciarlo. Tendré que hacerlo PARA ENTENDERLO. Tramas incoherentes, diálogos irracionales, racismo y machismo a espuertas, etc.
Lo positivo es el dibujo de linea clara y un color estupendo.
Lo positivo es el dibujo de linea clara y un color estupendo.
April 3, 2016
Le pongo dos estrellas en vez de una porque el dibujo es bonito. Dos historias cómicas sin ninguna gracia, y dos historias serias que no tienen pies ni cabeza. Malo de solemnidad. Malo con avaricia.
November 19, 2016
Härliga teckningar i stil med Tintin men berättelserna förstår jag mig inte på.
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