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Jeremiah #1-3
Jeremiah Omnibus bind 1.: 1978-1980
De tre første bind af Jeremiah er endelige tilgængelige igen og denne gang med et efterord med bl.a. strøtanker fra Hermann... Bind 1 -19781980 består af -
Rovfuglenes nat; Ørkenens fribytter; Farmen.
Rovfuglenes nat; Ørkenens fribytter; Farmen.
151 pages, Hardcover
First published November 6, 1998
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About the author
Hermann Huppen
418 books51 followersHermann was born in 1938 in Bévercé (now a part of Malmedy) in Liège Province. After studying to become a furniture maker and working as interior architect, Hermann made his debut as comic book artist in 1964 in the comics magazine Spirou with a four page story. Greg noticed his talent and offered him to work for his studio. In 1966, he began illustrating the Bernard Prince series written by Greg, published in the comic magazine Tintin periodical. In 1969, also in collaboration with Greg, he began the western series Comanche. This appeared at the same time as other western series such as Blueberry.
Hermann began writing his own stories in 1977, starting the post-apocalyptic Jeremiah series, which is still produced today. In the same period, he also made three albums of Nick, inspired by Little Nemo in Slumberland, for Spirou.[1] In 1983 he began a new series, Les Tours de Bois-Maury, which is set in the Middle Ages and is less focused on action than his other works.
Hermann has also created many non-series graphic novels sometimes together with his son Yves H. One of them, Lune de Guerre, with a story by Jean Van Hamme, was later filmed as The Wedding Party by Dominique Deruddere.[2]
Hermann is characterized by a realistic style and stories that are both somber and angry, with a sense of disillusion with regards to the human character in general, and current society more specifically.
http://www.hermannhuppen.com/hermann-...
Hermann began writing his own stories in 1977, starting the post-apocalyptic Jeremiah series, which is still produced today. In the same period, he also made three albums of Nick, inspired by Little Nemo in Slumberland, for Spirou.[1] In 1983 he began a new series, Les Tours de Bois-Maury, which is set in the Middle Ages and is less focused on action than his other works.
Hermann has also created many non-series graphic novels sometimes together with his son Yves H. One of them, Lune de Guerre, with a story by Jean Van Hamme, was later filmed as The Wedding Party by Dominique Deruddere.[2]
Hermann is characterized by a realistic style and stories that are both somber and angry, with a sense of disillusion with regards to the human character in general, and current society more specifically.
http://www.hermannhuppen.com/hermann-...
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January 12, 2024
I’m always on the lookout for unusual comics that prefer realistic settings and adult material, as opposed to superhero franchises. The Franco-Belgian catalogue makes it a little easier for me to find them. I decided to check out Jeremiah after I came across an episode featured in the magazine Metal Hurlant
This is a post-apocalyptic western written and drawn by Hermann Huppen. The series has been ongoing since the 1970’s, but unfortunately only the first 9 albums have been translated in English (out of about 40).
My review covers these first 9 issues, but I hope to continue with the series in French, even if it is a little harder to follow all the nuances in the text without translation.
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The protagonist is a young man living in a small farming community protected by a wooden palisade, just like one of those early forts seen in classic western stories.
The main difference is that this takes place in the near future, after the United States are destroyed in a racial conflict between white supremacists and minority groups. The scattered survivors struggle to make ends meet and to defend themselves against roving groups of bandits, slavers, former soldiers and other sorts of desperadoes.
The first album Birds of Prey introduces Jeremiah and his future sidekick Kurdy: another young man of different temperament than the principled and a little naive young farmer. Kurdy is a survivor: cynical, unreliable and brutal when the situation demands it. He is also a crack shot with a pistol.
The main cast is completed by a stubborn mule named Ezra, responsible for a lot of misadventures and for some comic relief in a story that is particularly gruesome: Jeremiah’s village is attacked by a band of slavers, all the inhabitants killed or taken to be sold.
The young man is the sole survivor, and he teams up with Kurdy in order to track down the slavers, the leader of whom is a grotesque Englishman with a glass eye and a loft filled with birds of prey.
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It took me some time to get used to the artwork and to the colour palette, strongly reminiscent of the seventies decade. Jeremiah and Kurdy are initially portrayed as teenagers with a bad attitude, and it takes two or three more albums before Hermann starts to draw them as adults in an adult world.
The plots are decent, graphically explicit and the dialogue is well adapted to the western setting [for an European series]
The main selling point for me in the series is that each album can be read as a stand-alone story and that the author explores different corners of his post-apocalyptic world, new plot lines for each episode.
A Fistful of Sand is a homage of sorts to Sergio Leone, with a tale of buried treasure fought over by the US Cavalry and by a Mexican band of desperadoes, with Jeremiah and Kurdy caught in the middle. It has a New Mexico sort of setting.
The Heirs is a conflict between big land owners with private gunslingers and small farmers that are either evicted from their land or pressed into chain gangs of forced labour.
The Eyes That Burned is about a con artist with apparent supernatural powers and about Jeremiah tracking down some of the survivors from his original village.
A Guinea Pig for Eternity is about a research facility that uses human testing of drugs intended to prolong the life and health of elite survivors.
The Cult has a beautiful mountain journey in autumn, with Jeremiah and Kurdy working as bodyguards for a wealthy sponsor. They come across a dangerous cult of masked and robed acolytes that are not adverse to human sacrifice.
Afroamerica visits a community of survivors of the racial wars that are still fighting against white supremacists and among themselves. African big cats are used to hunt down human prey.
Waters of Wrath has a marsh setting and a strong horror vibe, as both hunter and hunted are tracked on the waterways by a tribe a giant green bigfoot cousins.
Winter of the Clowns takes place on a beached and frozen in place cruise ship, taken over by survivors of a circus show (or by former inmates of an insane asylum, it’s not clear)
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Overall, this was an original concept with more ups than downs. It’s quality, both script and artwork, improves as the series progresses, and it’s popularity among European readers is well deserved.
I hope more albums will be published in English translation.
December 21, 2019
I have wanted to read 'Jeremiah' ever since I discovered it, because it was written and illustrated by one of my favourite Belgian artists, Hermann. I finally got around to reading the first omnibus volume.
The volume I read had the first three comics in the series. The story is set in America, in a post-apocalyptical world, which has resulted probably because of a nuclear war. It looks like people are back in the nineteenth century. Jeremiah is a young man who lives in a village, who is noble, innocent and naive. He meets Kurdy, who is streetsmart and who is aware of the ways of the world. The stories follow the adventures of these two as they get entangled into one event after another. Hermann said in an interview that he worked on many Westerns before he created 'Jeremiah' and we can see that influence here, because the story is filled with lots of Western elements.
There is good news and bad news. The good news first. The main characters are interesting and well-developed. The dialogue is interesting and humorous. The places where the events of the story happen have been depicted so beautifully. And the most important thing, of course. The artwork. Hermann has a very distinctive style, and that is the reason I love his art. That distinctive style, the vintage Hermann artwork is unfurled in all its glory here. It is beautiful and exquisite. The colours are vivid and spectacular. It is a pleasure to look at every panel. I loved it.
Now the bad news. I found all the stories mostly middling. They started off well and were fascinating till around one-third of the way but after that they meandered away into some kind complexity which was hard to understand, because the story started with so much promise. In the first story, the villain was a cartoonish character which was disappointing. In the third story, I felt that the story didn't fit into the spirit of the series and at some point the story became too complex for its own good. I liked the second story the best – it was like an old-fashioned Western.
I am hoping that the plot will improve as we venture deeper into the series. I have the second volume of this series too, and I hope to read it sometime soon.
Have you read the 'Jeremiah' series? What do you think about it? Do you like Belgian comics?
The volume I read had the first three comics in the series. The story is set in America, in a post-apocalyptical world, which has resulted probably because of a nuclear war. It looks like people are back in the nineteenth century. Jeremiah is a young man who lives in a village, who is noble, innocent and naive. He meets Kurdy, who is streetsmart and who is aware of the ways of the world. The stories follow the adventures of these two as they get entangled into one event after another. Hermann said in an interview that he worked on many Westerns before he created 'Jeremiah' and we can see that influence here, because the story is filled with lots of Western elements.
There is good news and bad news. The good news first. The main characters are interesting and well-developed. The dialogue is interesting and humorous. The places where the events of the story happen have been depicted so beautifully. And the most important thing, of course. The artwork. Hermann has a very distinctive style, and that is the reason I love his art. That distinctive style, the vintage Hermann artwork is unfurled in all its glory here. It is beautiful and exquisite. The colours are vivid and spectacular. It is a pleasure to look at every panel. I loved it.
Now the bad news. I found all the stories mostly middling. They started off well and were fascinating till around one-third of the way but after that they meandered away into some kind complexity which was hard to understand, because the story started with so much promise. In the first story, the villain was a cartoonish character which was disappointing. In the third story, I felt that the story didn't fit into the spirit of the series and at some point the story became too complex for its own good. I liked the second story the best – it was like an old-fashioned Western.
I am hoping that the plot will improve as we venture deeper into the series. I have the second volume of this series too, and I hope to read it sometime soon.
Have you read the 'Jeremiah' series? What do you think about it? Do you like Belgian comics?
June 19, 2014
Ni sam više ne znam koji put čitam Jeremiaha, ali još uvjek se oduševljavam, likovima, crtežom, akcijom, detaljima. Savršeni postapokaliptični strip.
Jako dobro izdanje sa kratkim Hermannovim uvodom u svaku epizodu i bonusom o izdanjima. Svakako moram nabavit za svoju kolekciju.
Jako dobro izdanje sa kratkim Hermannovim uvodom u svaku epizodu i bonusom o izdanjima. Svakako moram nabavit za svoju kolekciju.
August 14, 2020
Amazing art, but very mediocre and rushed stories.
November 30, 2012
The art and colors are fantastic, especially for comic issues made around 1978-1980.
December 30, 2018
Brilliant characters and amazing post-apocalyptic world. Only the first 3 albums, but you can already feel the change in Hermann's style.
December 19, 2019
La BD a un peu vieilli mais les dessins sont superbes. Le scénario est lui aussi très bon. Je ne sais pas si je lirai la suite mais j'ai beaucoup apprécié ma lecture malgré cela
February 24, 2025
I really liked the artwork - very much in a traditional comic book style (which is meant as praise). An interesting setting, although I feel more could be made of the post apocalypse environment, and good, if sometimes a little confusing stories. There’s a bizarre lack of female characters though - perhaps the apocalypse spared more men, who knows. The downside is that, for intermediate french learners, the structure of the dialog is very challenging and difficult to fully comprehend.
December 12, 2020
Hermann Huppe is one of my favourites - and Jeremiah is really a star of his comics <3
March 21, 2023
Obnavljanje gradiva posle toliko godina. Ok, scenario škripi kad su prve epizode u pitanju, a i mišljenja sam da je kolor nepotreban. Idemo dalje...
March 11, 2016
This is a classic among comic books as "War and Peace" among novels!
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