Gipsy: The Fires of Siberia

Gipsy #2

by Thierry Smolderen, Enrico Marini (Illustrator)

Mid XXIst century. The northern hemisphere is hit by a glacial period, the ozone hole is getting wider, the world's political situation is becoming chaotic. However, a huge transcontinental highway, the C3C, has been created. Everywhere, little boys dream of being truckers, having their rig to travel the world. Tsagoi, the Gipsy, is one of them. He don't play badminton. He don't smell like roses. He has his truck. It's called "The Gipsy Star." It's just him and his truck. Against the world. The series that launched the increasingly popular artist Marini (Raptors),

Genres: Bande Dessinée, Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction

64 pages, Paperback

First published June 9, 1995

About the author

Thierry Smolderen (born 25 November 1954) is an essay writer, as well as a script writer of Belgian comic strips.

Smolderen is a teacher at École des Beaux-Arts of Angoulême, France. As a comic books historian, he wrote Naissances de la bande dessinée (2009), about the "platinum age" of comics. This book has been published in English by the University Press of Mississippi in 2014, under the title The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay (Eisner Award nominee of 2015 in the Best Scholarly/Academic Work category).

Reviews

[Brian Garthoff · Rating 3 out of 5]

To be clear, Gypsy is a poorly written yet very entertaining story with good art. There are plenty of criticisms anyone could make about nearly every facet of Gypsy, but I’ve already saddled up for the long ride.

[Line Blue · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mejora de lo que fue el primer tomo y me gusta la guerra de los Mongoles, Los Zaristas y el Kremlin

[Czterysta Czterdzieścicztery · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nadal nie do końca spełnia się jako niezobowiązująca rozrywka. Tu jest potencjał żeby zbudować porządną opowieść, ale niewykorzystany. Wciąż jest to do zapomnienia zaraz po przeczytaniu. Na razie najciekawszą postacią serii jest Czarownica, a nie Cygan, gdyby byli równie interesujący seria wiele by zyskała.
Rysunki coraz bardziej przypominają już "dojrzałą" kreskę Mariniego.

Scenariusz: **
Rysunki: ***