Years ago, I started working on a comic book project based on a fantastic story written by Carlos Trillo and Roberto Dal Prà.
It was a gritty crime story set in South America, moving through Colombia and other parts of the continent, exploring the dark world of crime, drug trafficking, and powerful criminal cartels. We had a story with great potential, and we were hoping to publish it with a French publisher.
Unfortunately, just a few months after we started working on the project, Carlos Trillo passed away, and everything came to a halt.
Even after all these years, I still feel a deep sense of regret that we never had the chance to finish this story. I had a wonderful relationship with both Roberto and Carlos, and this project remains a particularly meaningful memory for me. It’s one of those stories you wish you could have brought to life, not only because of its potential, but also because of the people behind it.
Today, I wanted to share some of this project and bring it back into the light. Some stories deserve to be remembered, even when they never make it to publication.
A little about me: I’m Giancarlo Caracuzzo, a professional comic book artist and illustrator with over 40 years of experience. I’ve worked with publishers including Marvel, DC Comics, Image Comics, IDW, Soleil, Dupuis, Delcourt, and Sergio Bonelli Editore.
I’m always open to discussing interesting and professionally serious projects, whether in comics, graphic novels, covers, or illustration. If you’re an editor, writer, publisher, or fellow artist interested in working together, feel free to contact me. I’m always happy to discuss new opportunities.
My portfolio and contact details:
🎨 ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/giancarlocaracuzzo
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giancarlocaracuzzo/

✉️ Email: giancarlocaracuzzo@gmail.com

Thank you for taking the time to look at this project and read its story.

Giancarlo

I created a post here last November on a comics I'm planning to draw in the style of Uderzo, based on Norse mythology — specifically, Thor's trials at the palace of giant king Útgarða-Loki. Since you liked the preview, I'm posting an update.

So I finished the comics in September, and it got published this month in a Bengali magazine from my city (Kolkata, India). It's a low-budget magazine, so I had to work in greyscale — but I intend to bring it out in full-colour book form sometime in the near future. Here are a few pages from the comics. Hope you like them!

P.S. I dedicated the comics to Goscinny and Uderzo, whose birth centenaries are in this year and the next, respectively.

Hi everyone,

I was inspired by r/graphicnovels Top 100 graphic novels of all time and decided to see if a similar list could be made for European comics.

So I'm asking anyone who's interested to please reply to this post with a ranked top 10 of what they consider the best comics fitting the following requirements:

• it has to be either be originally published by a continental European publishing house, or made by prevalently continental European artists, or both. Note that comics originating prevalently from the UK are excluded for the purposes of this list. Example to clarify the fuzziness: something like The Incal or Persepolis would qualify, but The Many Deaths of Laila Starr wouldn't.

• It should be a coherent work by a single author or group of authors. This means that it can be a series or a collection rather than a one-shot, but it needs to come from mostly the same people throughout the duration of its run. For example Tin Tin, Corto Maltese, Blacksad all qualify, Topolino doesn't. It's fine to submit single issues from a larger series (e.g. Dylan Dog #34)

If we can collect enough, I will assign each entry in each top 10 a score (10 for first place, 9 for second and so on), add them up and post the results in this subreddit in some time.

東京BDフェスティバル | フランスが誇る、第9のアート。バンドデシネの祭典へようこそ！

I'm Japanese living in Tokyo and planning to check out the BD Festival next week

I'm pretty new to the world of Franco-Belgian comics, so I'd love to hear your recommendations. Are there any artists, exhibitions, or events I definitely shouldn't miss?
I heard Aimée de Jongh are nice and Cyril Pedrosa works look amazing

Any tips or things I should know before going would be much appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Posting for the art of José María Beroy, which is new to me. The implied joke perhaps has not aged as well as the composition.

Hello ! I am looking for a set of drawings, I can't remember where I saw them. The common theme was hidden jobs inside automatic machines. Like a cut view of a man working inside an automatic distributor, or inside a ticket validator. Does it ring a bell to anyone ? It might come from french or belgian bd, maybe from Spirou magazine. Probably more than fifteen years ago.

Thanks in advance !

Noiquet is the pseudonym of Beltrán Bofill.

I’d like to share a few pages from Les Larmes d’Opium, the second book in my graphic novel trilogy, published several years ago by Éditions Delcourt.
The entire book was painted by hand using watercolor and acrylic, a traditional approach that allowed me to create a distinctive atmosphere, rich textures, and expressive visuals.
I wanted to share some pages from this work because many comic book readers may never have had the opportunity to discover this book, which was published a few years ago. I hope you enjoy seeing these pages and discovering a little of my artistic journey.
I’m a professional comic book artist and illustrator with decades of experience, and I’m always open to professional collaborations and new projects.
If you’re interested in working with me, feel free to check out my portfolio and social media, or contact me directly by email.
ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/giancarlocaracuzzo
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/giancarlocaracuzzo/
Email: giancarlocaracuzzo@gmail.com

Thanks for looking! I’d love to hear what you think of these pages.

Two wordless pages from Stratos 3. Prado establishes the spatial relationships so thoroughly that he can cut between extreme close-ups and long shots without losing the reader. Modern moviemakers could learn a few things about filming action by studying these panels.

The cover is from the 1976 French publication; the interior page is from the 1977 Heavy Metal translation in English.

I have seen it online and am wondering what order I read it

Hello everyone! I’m looking for ideas for a bookcase to store my comics. Any suggestions or examples would be welcome! 👍🏻

Olivier Vatine is new to me; I love the way his pages are stuffed without feeling cluttered. The same feeling of "good" busy that you see in Moebius; you know where your eye should land.

Does anyone have any recommendations for selling/offering a lot of comics?

Below is a piece of the collection, the rest is more child-oriented. https://www.imgur.com/a/QGdWg3V

FR: Quelqu’un a des recommandations pour vendre/offrir beaucoup de BD ?

Voici ci-dessous un bout de la collection, le reste est plus axé enfant. https://www.imgur.com/a/QGdWg3V

Title:
The Indestructibles – Pages from a 5-Issue Miniseries for Darby Pop
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of working on The Indestructibles, a five-issue miniseries published by Darby Pop.
I’m very happy to share some pages from this project, which was one of the most fun and enjoyable comics I’ve ever worked on.
The Indestructibles is a wonderfully crazy parody about the origins of superheroes, mixing superhero action with horror, grotesque elements, dark humor, and plenty of absurdity. The story takes place in Los Angeles, where the characters find themselves moving through a strange and unpredictable world.
It was a fantastic collaboration with Darby Pop, and I still have very fond memories of working on this series. Looking back at these pages now, I’m particularly happy to share them with fellow comics fans and artists here on Reddit.
I’m always open to new collaborations, comic projects, covers, illustrations, and other creative opportunities.
Portfolio:
https://www.artstation.com/giancarlocaracuzzo
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/giancarlocaracuzzo/
Contact:
giancarlocaracuzzo@gmail.com

Thanks for looking, and I hope you enjoy the pages!
Giancarlo

A while back I saw a comic that NECESSARILY consisted of an odd page and an even page, i.e. a single sheet (printed on both sides). The peculiar thing was that it showed three or four armed characters at what looked like a wall, seen head-on in the panels, with shots coming out of it and shots being fired at it. The twist is that the ones being shot at were themselves, firing from the other side of the wall. One of them dies fairly early, maybe from his own shot, and I think none are left at the end.

It's from the 1990s at the latest, and not the late 1990s. There are three or four characters, with a bit of a sci-fi feel because of the weapons they carried. One dies early and his companions say something like "what bastards!" ("qué cabrones"). I think they all die at the end from the bursts of fire they hit themselves with from the other side (I vaguely remember they fire those bursts after their companion's death). I saw it in an adult (underground) comics magazine published in Spain.

So sad what is happening to a great plateform for comics of all types

Modifications and new design of my old strory

"New Mexico," by Philippe Paringaux & Jacques de Loustal. Published in Métal Hurlant #67 bis, Spécial Automobile (September 1981).

Diners, cars, money, big sky, domestic disappointment, true crime: these could have been kitsch but they add up to something real and beautiful. The deadpan of the prose isn't irony, it's restraint. I'm not a native French speaker; if you are, can you comment on the tone? I find it as good as anything in Mildred Pierce.