Requested The Collected Toppi: Vol.1 The Enchanted World from my library’s interloan service, and the library that responded gave me Vol 1-3! Three library loans for the price of one, haha.

I dig Toppi’s linework. He’s a very technical artist, and the work is very detailed and intricate. I’m also a sucker for black and white comics, which is mostly why I requested him after seeing a few people recommend him online for b&W bandee dessinee. The stories from Vol. 1 are all dark fairy tales basically, they’re quite short and simple in the storytelling, not a lot of dialogue or plot. But damn, are they atmospheric.

If you have a local library, you should definitely check if they have an inter-library loan service. The majority of comics I have requested, they’ve been able to find. I also got The Collected Crepax Vol.1 from them as well, which I’ll post when I get the chance.

Been in a B&W type of mood, if you guys have any more recommendations, let me know ;)

edit: Also, noticed that lemm.ee scaled the image, so here’s a link to the larger original in all it’s glory: https://ibb.co/prxDH8Hs

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    15 days ago

    Didn’t he do Adele Blanc-Sac (I think it’s called).

    Yeap!
    Me, I find it good, while eccentric. Rather dated at this point, but still fun to read…

    …you’ve given me some stuff to keep and eye out for.

    District 14, if you can find it…