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Parker Graphic Novels #1-4
Parker — Intégrale
Parker est le prototype du dur à cuir sans états d'âmes, brutal, froid et violent, qui n'éprouve que très rarement le moindre sentiment. Ce personnage a été créé par le « pape » du polar américain, Don Westlake, alias Richard Stark. Et c'est la superstar du comics Darwyn Cooke qui adapte les aventures du « chasseur » dans un style parfait : noir, au couteau, et sensuel. Cette magnifique intégrale regroupe les 4 volumes traduits chacun par des stars françaises : Tonino Benacquista, Matz, Doug Headline, Nicolas Richard.
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602 pages, Hardcover
Published July 10, 2020
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About the author
Darwyn Cooke
245 books356 followersDarwyn Cooke was an Eisner Award winning comic book writer, artist, cartoonist and animator, best known for his work on the comic books Catwoman, DC: The New Frontier and Will Eisner's The Spirit.
In 1985, Cooke published his first comic book work as a professional artist in a short story in New Talent Showcase #19, but economic pressure made him leave the career and he worked in Canada as a magazine art director, graphic and product designer for the next 15 years.
In the early 1990s Cooke decided to return to comics, but found little interest for his work at the major publishers. Eventually he was hired by Warner Bros. Animation after replying to an ad placed by animator Bruce Timm.
He went on to work as a storyboard artist for Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series, and in 1999 he animated the main title design for Batman Beyond. He then worked as a director for Sony Animation's Men in Black: The Series for a year.
DC Comics then approached Cooke about a project which he had submitted to the publisher years earlier which eventually became Batman: Ego, a graphic novel published in 2000.
The critical success of that project led to Cooke taking on more freelance work, such as X-Force, Wolverine/Doop and Spider-Man's Tangled Web for Marvel Comics and Just Imagine... Stan Lee for DC.
In 2001, Cooke and writer Ed Brubaker teamed up to revamp the Catwoman character. They started with a 4 issue serial "Trail of the Catwoman" in Detective Comics #759-762 in which private detective Slam Bradley attempts to investigate the death of Selina Kyle (AKA Catwoman).
The story led into a new Catwoman title in late 2001 by Brubaker and Cooke, in which the character's costume, supporting cast and modus operandi were all redesigned and redeveloped. Cooke would stay on the series, which was met with critical and fan acclaim, up until issue #4. In 2002 he would write and draw a prequel, the Selina's Big Score graphic novel which detailed what had happened to the character directly before her new series.
Cover to DC: The New Frontier #6.
Cover to DC: The New Frontier #6.
Cooke's next project was the ambitious DC: The New Frontier (2004), a six issue miniseries which sought to tell an epic storyline bridging the gap between the end of the golden and the start of the silver age of comic books in the DC Universe. The story, which was set in the 1950s, featured dozens of super-hero characters and drew inspiration from the comic books and movies of the period as well as from Tom Wolfe's non-fiction account of the start of the US Space Program The Right Stuff. The major DC characters are introduced in "The New Frontier" in the same order that DC originally published them, even down to the correct month and year in the story's timeline. In 2005, Cooke won an Eisner Award for "Best Limited Series", and a Joe Shuster Award for "Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist" for his work on the series.
Most recently, Cooke contributed to DC's artist-centric anthology project Solo. His issue (#5, June, 2005) featured several different stories in different styles with a framing sequence featuring the Slam Bradley character. In 2006, Solo #5 won an Eisner Award for "Best Single Issue."
In July 2005, it was announced that in 2006 Cooke and writer Jeph Loeb would produce a Batman/Spirit crossover, to be followed shortly afterwards by an ongoing Spirit series written and drawn by Cooke. Batman/The Spirit was ultimately published in November 2006, followed in December by the first issue of Cooke's The Spirit. In June 2007, Cooke and J. Bone won a Joe Shuster Award for "Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Artists" for their work on "Batman/The Spirit", and Cooke won "Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist" for his work on "The Spirit".
In July 2006, it was announced that Warner Bros. Animation and DC Comics would release a series of direct-to-DVD animated movies based on important DC com
In 1985, Cooke published his first comic book work as a professional artist in a short story in New Talent Showcase #19, but economic pressure made him leave the career and he worked in Canada as a magazine art director, graphic and product designer for the next 15 years.
In the early 1990s Cooke decided to return to comics, but found little interest for his work at the major publishers. Eventually he was hired by Warner Bros. Animation after replying to an ad placed by animator Bruce Timm.
He went on to work as a storyboard artist for Batman: The Animated Series and Superman: The Animated Series, and in 1999 he animated the main title design for Batman Beyond. He then worked as a director for Sony Animation's Men in Black: The Series for a year.
DC Comics then approached Cooke about a project which he had submitted to the publisher years earlier which eventually became Batman: Ego, a graphic novel published in 2000.
The critical success of that project led to Cooke taking on more freelance work, such as X-Force, Wolverine/Doop and Spider-Man's Tangled Web for Marvel Comics and Just Imagine... Stan Lee for DC.
In 2001, Cooke and writer Ed Brubaker teamed up to revamp the Catwoman character. They started with a 4 issue serial "Trail of the Catwoman" in Detective Comics #759-762 in which private detective Slam Bradley attempts to investigate the death of Selina Kyle (AKA Catwoman).
The story led into a new Catwoman title in late 2001 by Brubaker and Cooke, in which the character's costume, supporting cast and modus operandi were all redesigned and redeveloped. Cooke would stay on the series, which was met with critical and fan acclaim, up until issue #4. In 2002 he would write and draw a prequel, the Selina's Big Score graphic novel which detailed what had happened to the character directly before her new series.
Cover to DC: The New Frontier #6.
Cover to DC: The New Frontier #6.
Cooke's next project was the ambitious DC: The New Frontier (2004), a six issue miniseries which sought to tell an epic storyline bridging the gap between the end of the golden and the start of the silver age of comic books in the DC Universe. The story, which was set in the 1950s, featured dozens of super-hero characters and drew inspiration from the comic books and movies of the period as well as from Tom Wolfe's non-fiction account of the start of the US Space Program The Right Stuff. The major DC characters are introduced in "The New Frontier" in the same order that DC originally published them, even down to the correct month and year in the story's timeline. In 2005, Cooke won an Eisner Award for "Best Limited Series", and a Joe Shuster Award for "Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist" for his work on the series.
Most recently, Cooke contributed to DC's artist-centric anthology project Solo. His issue (#5, June, 2005) featured several different stories in different styles with a framing sequence featuring the Slam Bradley character. In 2006, Solo #5 won an Eisner Award for "Best Single Issue."
In July 2005, it was announced that in 2006 Cooke and writer Jeph Loeb would produce a Batman/Spirit crossover, to be followed shortly afterwards by an ongoing Spirit series written and drawn by Cooke. Batman/The Spirit was ultimately published in November 2006, followed in December by the first issue of Cooke's The Spirit. In June 2007, Cooke and J. Bone won a Joe Shuster Award for "Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Artists" for their work on "Batman/The Spirit", and Cooke won "Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist" for his work on "The Spirit".
In July 2006, it was announced that Warner Bros. Animation and DC Comics would release a series of direct-to-DVD animated movies based on important DC com
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Parker. Nieprzenikniony twardziel. Facet o robiących wrażenie ogromnych łapach. Z jego twarzy ciężko cokolwiek wyczytać. No może poza tym, że naprawdę nie warto mu wchodzić w drogę. Na kartach niniejszego tomu przekonują się o tym wysoko postawieni przedstawiciele przestępczości zorganizowanej, ale także sami wspólnicy bohatera! Nikt nie uchroni się przed jego gniewem, nawet kobieta, która go kocha.
Jeśli kręcą was mroczne klimaty noir i duża dawka sensacji w połączeniu ze starymi, dobrymi Stanami Zjednoczonymi lat 60. ubiegłego wieku, to trafiliście w dziesiątkę. Parker emanuje niezwykłą energią tamtych czasów, a przykuwa nas postacią bardzo niejednoznacznego bohatera. W sumie to samo określenie bohater wydaje się być nietrafione. Z innej perspektywy niż zawarta w komiksie uznalibyśmy go zapewne za łajdaka i drania, którego powinni zapuszkować. Po prostu konkretnego s***wiela.
Parker to komiks, który podobnie jak jego główny bohater, nie potrzebuje wielu słów, by oczarować każdego. Jego poszczególne kadry wydają się być idealnie rozplanowane. Przez kolejne fragmenty historii przechodzimy tak jakbyśmy mogli to sobie wyobrazić, gdybyśmy nie mogli posiłkować się obrazami. Darwyn Cooke, legenda komiksu czuje się tutaj jak ryba w wodzie. Cudownie operuje kolorami, dostosowując je do konkretnych opowieści. W Drapieżcy jest to odcień zieleni, a w Człowieku o twarzy zbiega jest to kolor żółty.
Jest w tym stylu coś hipnotyzującego, zarazem prostego i złożonego. Autor bawi się formą i czuć, że wielką frajdę sprawia mu opowiadanie historii Parkera. Ta nie jest w sumie nazbyt skomplikowana. Tytułowym bohaterem kieruje chęć zemsty na ludziach, którzy go oszukali. Jak się okazuje, nie wystarczy mu osoba, która bezpośrednio okradła go z ciężko zarobionej kasy. Wkrótce rozrasta się to na walkę z przestępczym Syndykatem. Jednakże Parker kradnie, zabija, napada i oszukuje. Wydaje się, że nie ma w nim krztyny dobra, ale właśnie to sprawia, że jest tak fascynujący.....
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Parker. Nieprzenikniony twardziel. Facet o robiących wrażenie ogromnych łapach. Z jego twarzy ciężko cokolwiek wyczytać. No może poza tym, że naprawdę nie warto mu wchodzić w drogę. Na kartach niniejszego tomu przekonują się o tym wysoko postawieni przedstawiciele przestępczości zorganizowanej, ale także sami wspólnicy bohatera! Nikt nie uchroni się przed jego gniewem, nawet kobieta, która go kocha.
Jeśli kręcą was mroczne klimaty noir i duża dawka sensacji w połączeniu ze starymi, dobrymi Stanami Zjednoczonymi lat 60. ubiegłego wieku, to trafiliście w dziesiątkę. Parker emanuje niezwykłą energią tamtych czasów, a przykuwa nas postacią bardzo niejednoznacznego bohatera. W sumie to samo określenie bohater wydaje się być nietrafione. Z innej perspektywy niż zawarta w komiksie uznalibyśmy go zapewne za łajdaka i drania, którego powinni zapuszkować. Po prostu konkretnego s***wiela.
Parker to komiks, który podobnie jak jego główny bohater, nie potrzebuje wielu słów, by oczarować każdego. Jego poszczególne kadry wydają się być idealnie rozplanowane. Przez kolejne fragmenty historii przechodzimy tak jakbyśmy mogli to sobie wyobrazić, gdybyśmy nie mogli posiłkować się obrazami. Darwyn Cooke, legenda komiksu czuje się tutaj jak ryba w wodzie. Cudownie operuje kolorami, dostosowując je do konkretnych opowieści. W Drapieżcy jest to odcień zieleni, a w Człowieku o twarzy zbiega jest to kolor żółty.
Jest w tym stylu coś hipnotyzującego, zarazem prostego i złożonego. Autor bawi się formą i czuć, że wielką frajdę sprawia mu opowiadanie historii Parkera. Ta nie jest w sumie nazbyt skomplikowana. Tytułowym bohaterem kieruje chęć zemsty na ludziach, którzy go oszukali. Jak się okazuje, nie wystarczy mu osoba, która bezpośrednio okradła go z ciężko zarobionej kasy. Wkrótce rozrasta się to na walkę z przestępczym Syndykatem. Jednakże Parker kradnie, zabija, napada i oszukuje. Wydaje się, że nie ma w nim krztyny dobra, ale właśnie to sprawia, że jest tak fascynujący.....
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September 13, 2022J’abandonne, trop violent et macho pour moi actuellement … j’ai quand même beaucoup aimé les dessins
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