L'étoile du gitan

Gipsy #1

by Thierry Smolderen, Enrico Marini (Illustrator)

Gipsy est un routier solitaire qui conduit son Megatruck, un camion géant, à la périphérie du cercle arctique, là où les routes sont particulièrement glissantes, dans tous les sens du terme.

Genres: Comics, Bande Dessinée, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Comic Book, Comics Bd

68 pages, Board book

First published September 1, 2000

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]

Gypsy is either written exceptionally poorly, completely mistranslated, or a combination of both. I found it in a discount bin and took a flier on it, and the dialogue is a bizarre mess full of quips that are either nonsense or directly translated into nonsense. The story is over the top bad like a 80s/90s action movie, but also fast-paced and still somehow weirdly enjoyable. Gypsy’s saving grace is the art, and also the main reason I’m still reading it. Although there’s some major asterisks in that department as well. Expressions are at times very over the top anime, but they do nail the frequently changing scenery and numerous explosions quite well. Also, I didn’t realized how much of a horny book this was when I bought it. Thats is neither good nor bad, but it does add another layer of pervy weirdness to the overall product. So. Should you read Gypsy? I dunno! Maybe ask yourself, how do you usually feel about trainwrecks?

[StrictlySequential · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very reluctant **** and only because the story itself is solid despite the "dressing" being sour. The nerdiest sayings and the stupidest antics are the guy's halmarks making him insufferable but the rest of the cast is very well written.

The art is spectacular but the facial expressions a manga-overdone which annoys me.

[Line Blue · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es interesante, me gusta la idea del transporte y el tipo de clima frío en el norte con estación tropical en el sur por culpa del agujero de la capa de ozono, en punto negativos, se nota que es uno de los primeros trabajos de Marini y peca con arquetipos, el arte nada que decir 10/10 aunque más manga que sus posteriores trabajos.

[Torgeir · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a pleasant surprise!

Like a more grown up version of Big Trouble in Little China, this series follows a truck driver on his adventures through exotic countries, where he fights bad guys and has sex with beautiful women.

However, the series is far more raunchy than what you might be used to in American comics, and the characters are certainly more ambiguous, which makes it all the more interesting.

The fact that it doesn't treat the reader as a child, makes it both clever and captivating, while at the same time being tremendously entertaining, akin to the great action films of the 80s before political correctness grabbed the world by the balls.

I highly recommend all 6 issues.

[Czterysta Czterdzieścicztery · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pomysł na świat w którym nie latają samoloty, a większość transportu odbywa się za pomocą wielkich ciężarówek jeżdżących po ogromnych międzykontynentalnych autostradach jest dość świeży i interesujący. O ile jest tu mnóstwo elementów które powinny zapewnić dobrą rozrywkę (akcja/przygoda, walki/bijatyki, seks/erotyka, humor), to niestety realizacja pozostawia sporo do życzenia. Sama postać Cygana nie porywa, tępy brutal, który z jednej strony świetnie walczy, z drugiej jest przerywnikiem komicznym.
Po stronie graficznej widać, że to wczesny Marini, część rysunków jest jeszcze bardzo "mangowa", a zarazem daleka od tego co prezentował w "Skorpionie".

Scenariusz: **
Rysunki: ***

[Aildiin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm slowly working my way through everything that Martini has drawn and I have to say that so far this new serie starts well. There's a lot of action and the setting is a near future earth where due to pollution airplanes are no longer used to transport materials and instead a gigantic highway has been constructed and is used by giant trucks to carry products all across the earth. We follow one such truckers who is of Gypsy origin.

[Richard Joya · Rating 4 out of 5]

The art style reminds me of Akira. The main character looks like Rambo with the black tank top and red headband. I don't think Smolderen and Marini intended to make me think of Lincoln Hawk.