As a Dane, im glad you liked Faraos! :-) They have everything from US Comics, EU Comics and Manga, to Roleplay games, Board Games, card collecting etc etc (In copenhagen they have a shop for each, one for Comics, one for roleplay etc etc). Fantastic and legendary place for Danish people, with the love for comics to go (Not to mention, they do Publish alot of european comics, translated to Danish aswell, under their own label).
That place is amazing! No lesser word can be used to describe it. In fact I was there again two days before New Years Eve. Just a quick Holiday(Copenhagen is a place I like to visit)but of course I went in and left with a heavy bag. I found also a smaller but also really well kept store Fantask. I left that with another heavy bag😄 I have to say Danish comics culture shocked me. So much good stuff translated and you’re not THAT much bigger in population compared to Finland. I am openly envious. I did see some of the series had the store’s logo as publisher. It’s a quite clear sign of the status Faraos Cigarer has. I visited their manga store too and it was packed from floor to ceiling with books.
Great haul. Europe has so many amazing comic shops (I want to check out some Croation ones one day haha) the best comic book shop where I am now is called the Beguiling. In Jamaica there aren't any comic shops at the moment but I think that will change in the near future.
I'm like your laptop as well... never recognized the point when I turned old, but obviously it had happened 🥸 Great shop (a wall of Hermann-comics!!!). And I was in Copenhagen... actually twice... but did not knew about Faraos Cigarer (what a cool name for a comic shop).
That store is in fact easy to walk past because it is in a location where you don´t expect to see a comic book store. Premium location next to many stores selling clothes and other things that are waist of money that was meant for comics. Hermann interests me a lot. Based on a small sample that I have read I love his art but not his writing. This place had many Hermanns to choose from but there was generally just way too much stuff. I settled for superficial look and decided to come back one day:)
give Hermann a second chance. Esp. his short stories can be very brutal and merciless, but eventually most of his stories are in a class of their own in my opinion@@analogcomics
@@earlgrey862 Hermann will surely get third and fourth chance from me. I really like his style. Bernard Prince is my first contact to his work in 70’s. Then Jeremiah and Bois Maury Towers. But there is only few albums of each available.
I love how Tex is so popular in places like Finland, Brazil, and India but basically unknown to English speakers. Fingers crossed that and Blueberry get more translations
It feels like there is new Tex Willer in news stands every month. And they publish them at least in three different formats so it might be more than just one Tex per month. I really don´t understand how there hasn´t been enough effort to get Blueberry back in english. Moebius name still carries a lot of interest and value in anglophone market. I´ve heard that the reason might be on the side of the right owners too. Blueberry was translated and printed in high quality albums by Epic so long ago that most readers don´t even know or remember it anymore. I do have the whole series(also many of those Epic albums) but I wish it was available for larger audience - and that requires english translation.
Oh yes! I´ve owned the first Buddy Longway album since childhood. I just noticed last week that there is now 4 album Integral published in Finnish. I will definitely get that.@@reginaldforthright805
I very much like Faraos Cigarer. I have purchased a good amount of things from there. Also, mutual intelligibility between Scandinavian languages is especially easy with the written languages, and I am sure that any speaker of Danish / Norwegian / Swedish would be able to fully understand the written language of one of the other Scandinavian languages if they just read a decent amount of it. Unfortunately, most people are now defaulting to English. Great video and haul.
That was such a dangerous place! A store that well planned tempts you to buy. I`ve seen Danish/Swedes/Norwegians speaking with each other merrily as the languages are so close. Unfortunately that doesn´t apply to Finnish language. I wish I had paid more attention at school Swedish lessons:) Glad you liked the haul😊
When I die, now I know exactly how after-life will looks like. Faraos Cigarer!! That store is beautiful. Thanks for sharing those nice views :D In Mexico we have a similar situation for finding comics like Finland. A few comics on book-stores, some have more and some less, but hey.. 20 years ago comics were a rare thing on book-stores. So is getting better.
I’m still planning to mash up somekind of video about my visit to that store as I have even more footage from there. And yes, eternity there would feel too short! I like your positive attitude on the availability. I also try to be happy about the fact that I have something instead of nothing.
"Shemp Buffet" is definitely sth that you have never seen ... and it is the first of Shaolin Cowboy, the others have a bit more of story to them. "Essex County" was my start to Lemire as well, not perfect, but beautiful. "Rain like hammers"! yay! ... ah Danish... there are a lot of Danes here, as a part of the Danish minority, but I can't say that I understand anything but "Hey" . I really hope that Sillage becomes available again over here in German - in the meantime almost each album is out of print and out of stock.
"Hey" goes a long way in human interaction💪I was really banking on the German version of Sillage but it seems they decided to discontinue. Shemp Buffet looked like something that needs that certain mood in order to enjoy it. Now I´m calmly levitating and waiting for that mood to arrive.
Amazon lists Sillage #22(came out in France in January) in German as "to be published in 2024" That is strange as all the older albums are going out of print fast without any sign of re-prints.
probably and hopefully they go the collected editions route... but they reprint actually so much series in "Integrals" or whatever that the small market maybe is oversaturated and Sillage is way back in the line of titles to get that treatment @@analogcomics
Nice Haul my friend! Faraos Cigarer looks amazing, hopefully I can visit that store one day. Once you read Mouse Guard can you please share your comments about it? I also saw the videos from "For the Love of Comics" and I am wondering if you too recommend it that much. Nice readings!! :)
I´m waiting to get my hands on Mouse Guard. Now I have the pleasant problem of choosing what to read first as there´s other comics that came in earlier and some that came after also waiting. Suddenly I went from not buying anything to having almost too much to read😄
It looks amazing! The reason I haven´t read it yet is the available formats. It is available in English but only in digital which I don´t enjoy much. Physical albums are not in any language I can read fluently - but can translate with Google Lens. Now I´m on the fence wheter to go with digital or not😑
@@analogcomics I'm used to reading most things digitally so I'm fine with that ha! But I did get my very first BD shipped to here in India "Darkly she goes" by Hubert and Vincent Mallie. That is great, I would recommend it heartily.
@@MrHazz111 I guess BD fan in India has to visit digital platforms more often by necessity. I understand that completely. And it’s great there is some option rather than none. I wasn’t aware of Darkly She Goes. Looks VERY interesting! Thanks for the tip💪🏻
For me it‘s 1/3 Illustration, 1/3 Story and 1/3 Production (the book). But I‘d drop the Story without a blink for a great look & feel. I’m so superficial and now i want to cuddle Ducks …
I don´t. My generation had to learn Swedish as it´s the second official language in Finland. Swedish is spoken by a minority here and learning Swedish was very unpopular so later it was decided that you could choose to learn it if you want. I wasn´t interested at all back then but luckily I still remember enough to enjoy comics in Swedish - And Swedish is close enough to Danish. Understanding spoken Danish is much harder as they have very thick pronunciation - like a hot potato in mouth.
is it Christmas yet? "Berlin": this book is definitely not an airport-friendly book. "The arrival": personally I can not accept your excuse. 🤣 "Ducks": you have to do a review of it. The story seems to be interesting. big book... "Mouse guard": ForTheLoveOfComics has been mentioned in many criminal cases like yours.🤣you're not the only one being abused by his excellent reviews.
Oh, I still wake up screaming because of The Arrival😄- and everything else I had to put back to shelf. Putting them back hurt much more than just not taking something. @ftlc is definitely costing me money but so far I´ve been getting a lot in return also. In fact I just managed to hunt down one book he got me interested in. Now it´s finally on its way to Finland.
From 'The Comics Journal' No 228, interview of Jason Lutes by Greg Stump: Greg Stump: 'In 1994, Jason Lutes released his debut graphic novel, the Xeric-funded Jar of Fools, to unusual praise. Perhaps the strongest and most visible endorsement came from Scott McCloud, who called the book “an instant classic” in a promotional blurb. McCloud’s enthusiasm was generally echoed by the rest of the book’s readership, particularly in Seattle, where it was originally serialized in the alternative weekly paper The Stranger. The unique appeal of Jar of Fools was driven home for me at a lecture McCloud gave in a Seattle bookstore shortly after the publication of Understanding Comics. His talk was accompanied by slides of artwork that illustrated various points he was making about the medium. When a panel from Jar of Fools was shown, the audience broke into spontaneous applause. Part of the acclaim was for Lutes’ thoughtful story of a down-and-out magician and his troubled relationships. But what set Jar of Fools apart from other debuts was the way it was told. Lutes has more than just a facility for drawing comics; he has a concrete, guiding vision of how the medium works. As a result, he displays a mastery over aspects of the visual language of comics that many cartoonists don’t even consider.' Jason Lutes: 'One of the most gratifying things that’s happened recently was when I read what Scott McCloud wrote about Jar of Fools in Reinventing Comics; he noticed a lot of things that I put in there which nobody had ever noticed before. Because he was analyzing it, he took the time to pay attention to what I put in there. Stuff that other people would just digest instantaneously on the fly, and think about.'
I am a fan of his art style. I have The Gypsy Omnibus. I also have Negative Exposure which seems to be lesser known. Rapaces has been translated to Finnish but they´re asking silly prices for it these days. I´m hoping to finding them as second hand. The Scorpion is available in English through Cinebook and I will definitely check them out.
I’ll be travelling through Copenhagen to Helsinki around May for a meeting. I’ll hook you up, if you need anothing from Faraos. I always stop by there when I travel through Denmark.
Now THAT is the most considerate offer anyone has made for me. I do have to skip it though. My TBR-pile is so far beyond reasonable that I need to work through it before allowing myself to buy more😅Also my unread comics barely fit to my shelves and I'm having to face some hard questions that all comics fans rather avoid. ...Then again it's a quite some time until May...🤔
@ For the next 3 years, I’ll be going from the Faroes to Helsinki (in May and October) for Nordic Council related meetings. I’ll have plenty of space. If it is available for pick up at Faraos, I can bring it along to Suomi. Let me know.
So nice to hear about Tex,i grow up with Bonelli heroes,Zagor and Dylan Dog are my favorites,and yes,it's true,you need whole bunch of bookshelfs
As a Dane, im glad you liked Faraos! :-) They have everything from US Comics, EU Comics and Manga, to Roleplay games, Board Games, card collecting etc etc (In copenhagen they have a shop for each, one for Comics, one for roleplay etc etc). Fantastic and legendary place for Danish people, with the love for comics to go (Not to mention, they do Publish alot of european comics, translated to Danish aswell, under their own label).
That place is amazing! No lesser word can be used to describe it. In fact I was there again two days before New Years Eve. Just a quick Holiday(Copenhagen is a place I like to visit)but of course I went in and left with a heavy bag. I found also a smaller but also really well kept store Fantask. I left that with another heavy bag😄
I have to say Danish comics culture shocked me. So much good stuff translated and you’re not THAT much bigger in population compared to Finland. I am openly envious. I did see some of the series had the store’s logo as publisher. It’s a quite clear sign of the status Faraos Cigarer has. I visited their manga store too and it was packed from floor to ceiling with books.
Great haul. Europe has so many amazing comic shops (I want to check out some Croation ones one day haha) the best comic book shop where I am now is called the Beguiling. In Jamaica there aren't any comic shops at the moment but I think that will change in the near future.
Keeping both my thumbs up for more comics stores👍👍
Now thats what a call a well-stocked store. Well done!...
It was quite something after avoiding to buy comics for 6 months.
I'm like your laptop as well... never recognized the point when I turned old, but obviously it had happened 🥸 Great shop (a wall of Hermann-comics!!!). And I was in Copenhagen... actually twice... but did not knew about Faraos Cigarer (what a cool name for a comic shop).
That store is in fact easy to walk past because it is in a location where you don´t expect to see a comic book store. Premium location next to many stores selling clothes and other things that are waist of money that was meant for comics. Hermann interests me a lot. Based on a small sample that I have read I love his art but not his writing. This place had many Hermanns to choose from but there was generally just way too much stuff. I settled for superficial look and decided to come back one day:)
give Hermann a second chance. Esp. his short stories can be very brutal and merciless, but eventually most of his stories are in a class of their own in my opinion@@analogcomics
@@earlgrey862 Hermann will surely get third and fourth chance from me. I really like his style. Bernard Prince is my first contact to his work in 70’s. Then Jeremiah and Bois Maury Towers. But there is only few albums of each available.
I love how Tex is so popular in places like Finland, Brazil, and India but basically unknown to English speakers. Fingers crossed that and Blueberry get more translations
For me the best is buddy longway
It feels like there is new Tex Willer in news stands every month. And they publish them at least in three different formats so it might be more than just one Tex per month.
I really don´t understand how there hasn´t been enough effort to get Blueberry back in english. Moebius name still carries a lot of interest and value in anglophone market. I´ve heard that the reason might be on the side of the right owners too. Blueberry was translated and printed in high quality albums by Epic so long ago that most readers don´t even know or remember it anymore. I do have the whole series(also many of those Epic albums) but I wish it was available for larger audience - and that requires english translation.
Oh yes! I´ve owned the first Buddy Longway album since childhood. I just noticed last week that there is now 4 album Integral published in Finnish. I will definitely get that.@@reginaldforthright805
@@analogcomics awesome! I’d love to see a review
I very much like Faraos Cigarer. I have purchased a good amount of things from there.
Also, mutual intelligibility between Scandinavian languages is especially easy with the written languages, and I am sure that any speaker of Danish / Norwegian / Swedish would be able to fully understand the written language of one of the other Scandinavian languages if they just read a decent amount of it. Unfortunately, most people are now defaulting to English.
Great video and haul.
That was such a dangerous place! A store that well planned tempts you to buy.
I`ve seen Danish/Swedes/Norwegians speaking with each other merrily as the languages are so close. Unfortunately that doesn´t apply to Finnish language. I wish I had paid more attention at school Swedish lessons:)
Glad you liked the haul😊
Great haul video😊
When I die, now I know exactly how after-life will looks like. Faraos Cigarer!! That store is beautiful. Thanks for sharing those nice views :D
In Mexico we have a similar situation for finding comics like Finland. A few comics on book-stores, some have more and some less, but hey.. 20 years ago comics were a rare thing on book-stores. So is getting better.
I’m still planning to mash up somekind of video about my visit to that store as I have even more footage from there. And yes, eternity there would feel too short!
I like your positive attitude on the availability. I also try to be happy about the fact that I have something instead of nothing.
That footage sounds good!@@analogcomics
"Shemp Buffet" is definitely sth that you have never seen ... and it is the first of Shaolin Cowboy, the others have a bit more of story to them. "Essex County" was my start to Lemire as well, not perfect, but beautiful. "Rain like hammers"! yay! ... ah Danish... there are a lot of Danes here, as a part of the Danish minority, but I can't say that I understand anything but "Hey" . I really hope that Sillage becomes available again over here in German - in the meantime almost each album is out of print and out of stock.
"Hey" goes a long way in human interaction💪I was really banking on the German version of Sillage but it seems they decided to discontinue. Shemp Buffet looked like something that needs that certain mood in order to enjoy it. Now I´m calmly levitating and waiting for that mood to arrive.
Amazon lists Sillage #22(came out in France in January) in German as "to be published in 2024" That is strange as all the older albums are going out of print fast without any sign of re-prints.
probably and hopefully they go the collected editions route... but they reprint actually so much series in "Integrals" or whatever that the small market maybe is oversaturated and Sillage is way back in the line of titles to get that treatment @@analogcomics
Nice Haul my friend! Faraos Cigarer looks amazing, hopefully I can visit that store one day. Once you read Mouse Guard can you please share your comments about it? I also saw the videos from "For the Love of Comics" and I am wondering if you too recommend it that much. Nice readings!! :)
I´m waiting to get my hands on Mouse Guard. Now I have the pleasant problem of choosing what to read first as there´s other comics that came in earlier and some that came after also waiting. Suddenly I went from not buying anything to having almost too much to read😄
Eagles of Rome by Enrico Marini is so good.
It looks amazing! The reason I haven´t read it yet is the available formats. It is available in English but only in digital which I don´t enjoy much. Physical albums are not in any language I can read fluently - but can translate with Google Lens. Now I´m on the fence wheter to go with digital or not😑
@@analogcomics I'm used to reading most things digitally so I'm fine with that ha! But I did get my very first BD shipped to here in India "Darkly she goes" by Hubert and Vincent Mallie. That is great, I would recommend it heartily.
@@MrHazz111 I guess BD fan in India has to visit digital platforms more often by necessity. I understand that completely. And it’s great there is some option rather than none.
I wasn’t aware of Darkly She Goes. Looks VERY interesting! Thanks for the tip💪🏻
For me it‘s 1/3 Illustration, 1/3 Story and 1/3 Production (the book). But I‘d drop the Story without a blink for a great look & feel. I’m so superficial and now i want to cuddle Ducks …
as long as it makes a total of 3/3 everything's fine!
Out of curiosity, you speak Danish?
I don´t. My generation had to learn Swedish as it´s the second official language in Finland. Swedish is spoken by a minority here and learning Swedish was very unpopular so later it was decided that you could choose to learn it if you want. I wasn´t interested at all back then but luckily I still remember enough to enjoy comics in Swedish - And Swedish is close enough to Danish. Understanding spoken Danish is much harder as they have very thick pronunciation - like a hot potato in mouth.
is it Christmas yet?
"Berlin": this book is definitely not an airport-friendly book.
"The arrival": personally I can not accept your excuse. 🤣
"Ducks": you have to do a review of it. The story seems to be interesting. big book...
"Mouse guard": ForTheLoveOfComics has been mentioned in many criminal cases like yours.🤣you're not the only one being abused by his excellent reviews.
Oh, I still wake up screaming because of The Arrival😄- and everything else I had to put back to shelf. Putting them back hurt much more than just not taking something. @ftlc is definitely costing me money but so far I´ve been getting a lot in return also. In fact I just managed to hunt down one book he got me interested in. Now it´s finally on its way to Finland.
have you read "jar of fools" by Jason Lutes? @@analogcomics
@@earlgrey862 I have not yet read anything from him. Would you recommend that over Berlin?
From 'The Comics Journal' No 228, interview of Jason Lutes by Greg Stump:
Greg Stump:
'In 1994, Jason Lutes released his debut graphic novel, the Xeric-funded Jar of Fools, to unusual praise. Perhaps the strongest and most visible endorsement came from Scott McCloud, who called the book “an instant classic” in a promotional blurb. McCloud’s enthusiasm was generally echoed by the rest of the book’s readership, particularly in Seattle, where it was originally serialized in the alternative weekly paper The Stranger.
The unique appeal of Jar of Fools was driven home for me at a lecture McCloud gave in a Seattle bookstore shortly after the publication of Understanding Comics. His talk was accompanied by slides of artwork that illustrated various points he was making about the medium. When a panel from Jar of Fools was shown, the audience broke into spontaneous applause.
Part of the acclaim was for Lutes’ thoughtful story of a down-and-out magician and his troubled relationships. But what set Jar of Fools apart from other debuts was the way it was told. Lutes has more than just a facility for drawing comics; he has a concrete, guiding vision of how the medium works. As a result, he displays a mastery over aspects of the visual language of comics that many cartoonists don’t even consider.'
Jason Lutes:
'One of the most gratifying things that’s happened recently was when I read what Scott McCloud wrote about Jar of Fools in Reinventing Comics; he noticed a lot of things that I put in there which nobody had ever noticed before. Because he was analyzing it, he took the time to pay attention to what I put in there. Stuff that other people would just digest instantaneously on the fly, and think about.'
@@tinustinus571 wow!😅Now I feel like I asked if Eiffel Tower is famous.
you should try to read the scorpion by enrico marini and his other works
I am a fan of his art style. I have The Gypsy Omnibus. I also have Negative Exposure which seems to be lesser known. Rapaces has been translated to Finnish but they´re asking silly prices for it these days. I´m hoping to finding them as second hand. The Scorpion is available in English through Cinebook and I will definitely check them out.
I’ll be travelling through Copenhagen to Helsinki around May for a meeting. I’ll hook you up, if you need anothing from Faraos. I always stop by there when I travel through Denmark.
Now THAT is the most considerate offer anyone has made for me. I do have to skip it though. My TBR-pile is so far beyond reasonable that I need to work through it before allowing myself to buy more😅Also my unread comics barely fit to my shelves and I'm having to face some hard questions that all comics fans rather avoid.
...Then again it's a quite some time until May...🤔
@ For the next 3 years, I’ll be going from the Faroes to Helsinki (in May and October) for Nordic Council related meetings. I’ll have plenty of space. If it is available for pick up at Faraos, I can bring it along to Suomi. Let me know.
Sillage looks very cool. I read a couple many years ago. More BD please. American books = trash
BD is not all I do but recently it´s been the most I´ve been reading so definitely more BD coming!