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Unpopular Culture
- Creator: Bart Beaty
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press
- Published on: 2007-12-12
- ISBN: 0802094120
About This Book
Dr Bart Beaty’s seminal work on European Comix in the 90s. The book itself is an academic text, but there are several pages of comics interspersed with the text. This translation is a translation of those disparate pages of comics. Each page through the book is from a different book, and most by different authors, so I’m not listing each author individually, although they are referenced in the translation text.
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Translation
Page 18
This page is by Étienne Lécroart, from Le Cycle.
Panel 1
What?
Panel 2
Catch him for Heaven’s Sake!
Panel 3
Catch him!
Panel 4
Hey!
Hey!
And make him regret coming here!
Panel 5
He isn’t going far!
But what’s going on?
Panel 6
Come back here!
Panel 7
Hey!
Panel 8
Oops!
Panel 9
Stop!
Panel 10
Come back, by Heaven!
Page 53
A page from Die Hure HZieht ire Bahnen by Anke Feuchtenberger.
Panel 1
Sorry! My German ain’t up to this!
Page 79
A Page from Les vacances d’OuBaPo by Jean-Christophe Menu.
Panel 1
Kasku: [iiinx sex aajluaj auuoj]
But what devil is this that speaks nonsense so worryingly?
Panel 2
It is Kasku, who despairing of his failures has come to decide to fiche himself in the water.
Panel 3
Goodbye solitude!!
Panel 7
Kasku finds himself in the sun, he doesn’t know where, when suddenly…
Panel 8
Kasku finds himself facing his double!!
Panel 9
Kasku’s Double: Why do you want to die, solemn idiot!
Panel 10
Kasku: Uh… no girl wants me…
Kasku’s Double: Pff… and have you tried liking yourself?
Kasku: What?
Panel 11
Kasku: Myself?
Panel 12
[Now the page is turned over – this is the inverted panel 11]
Kasku’s Double: Yes, yourself!!
Panel 13
Kasku: I don’t understand…
Kasku’s Double: Ha ha! What an idiot!
Panel 14
Kasku’s Double: Go! Return to where you belong!
Panel 15
Kasku’s Double: Ho!!
Panel 22
Sunken bitch Kasku!!!
[This can’t be right! I’m blaming Babelfish.]
Leave me alone!
I have to see the Professor!
Panel 23
Ha!
Panel 24
[No text]
Page 92
Tufo by Stefanno Ricci & Philippe de Pierpont.
Panel 1
You know, I was born in the church, the one that’s flooded now.
Panel 3
My mother said she belonged to this place
Panel 4
and when I got here, I understood what she meant immediately.
Panel 5
This pit…
Panel 6
...was my theatre. It heard my song.
Page 94
A page from Souvenir d’une journée parfait (?Souvenir of a Perfect Journey?) by Dominique Goblet.
Panel 1
Some names
which are no longer carried by anyone
some people who don’t exist
their history eludes us
(at best we guess)
Page 102
Page 100 from Alberto G. by Eric Lambé and Philippe de Pierpont.
Panel 3
Who gave you permission to smoke?
Page 104
Promnade à Saturnia by Markus Huber.
Panel 1
Stella? You okay?
Panel 2
Stella: Yes, I’m just sitting there.
Panel 3
Stella: when you are all alone here, this room puts you in a special state.
Panel 4
Stella: I had thought that it would be full of people who drink coffee and talk and talk.
Panel 5
Oh. This place makes my head turn, I think the cake is starting to have an effect.
Panel 6
We’d better push on to Saturnia. The hot water springs will make you better.
Panel 7
Stella: Walter, don’t trail behind.
