As I mentioned a while back, I will use the blog to discuss also some of the comics that I like and I could enjoy thanks the Library of Santiago. Nothing like a good public library and it has everything one would expect from a place like that. Although the comic section is not as good as one finds in the mecca of Franco-Belgian BD, at least it has many treasures that I have read since it opened. Some had never read and met by the library. This is the case of series such as "Alpha" or "Dark Cities." Others were known but it is always good to reread at home. This is the case that asked this week, corresponding to the series Blueberry, one of the best expressions of the Western genre of Franco-Belgian school. This latter name comes true sense because their authors are just a Frenchman and a Belgian, Jean Giraud and Jean-Michel Charlier, respectively.
Mr. Jean Giraud lens is shown in the photo on the left and is probably best known to comic readers of science fiction and fantasy, through The Moebius pseudonym. Indeed, it is the same person. Born in 1938, Giraud worked on several comic books in France and was a colleague of some of the most important artists of the Franco-Belgian school. It is in the seventies and eighties when it is known under the pseudonym Moebius, named after a mathematician who seems he wanted to pay homage but also realizes his passion for science in the limits of possibility. Alejandro Jodorowsky found in its perfect to start a professional relationship that led them to create several of the largest European series.
suppose it is no mystery that Moebius was the creator of this awesome monster known as "Alien" in Ridley Scott. I remember seeing the drawings he made for the movie in one of the numbers of the former Trauko magazine.
But the series that I thought to write something on the blog today is Blueberry. As different as the theme to those who knew him under the pseudonym Moebius, is also drawing style in one case and another. In fact, at the beginning of my adventures in the world of European comic did not know it was the same Giraud Moebius. For me there were two different artists and, indeed, Moebius was never my favorite. This style of drawing that was so copied by some rivals which was among the generation of Chilean artists of the period of the journal Trauko, it was simply unattractive. Nothing to do with the style of Giraud. A style much closer to that of artists such as Hermann and others I met in Mampato. The quality of your drawing, along with the fun of their stories is what attracted me to this series.
The head of the scripts for the first time this series was Jean-Michel Charlier, M. formal look as pictured on the right. Of him and I have said more than anything in previous comments. However, it is worth mentioning that he was born in the beautiful city of Liège in 1924 and died in Paris in 1989. Charlier was the writer of another of my favorites: Tanguy and Laverdure. This great series in which actors are pilots of "l'armée de l'air" on board French always beautiful Mirage. Another series of aircraft was written by Charlier series Buck Danny, the one on the brushes to the artist Victor Hubinon.
Well, the story of Blueberry has all the ingredients that appeal to the western genre and adventure. A protagonist who is wrongly accused of murder and must go underground using a false name with which he seeks redemption. Something like this is what happens to Mike Donovan or better said Lt. Blueberry, who ends by joining the ranks of the U.S. cavalry in this condition and starring countless adventures.
From the Library took the first volumes of the Standard edition, which are the first in its original edition in French. Indeed, the first two volumes that can be seen in the images accompanying this note were published in 1972, seven years after the publication of the first adventure, entitled "Fort Navajo." So the English edition suggests a reading order which is different from the order in which they were published in Castilian Blueberry adventures. In any case, the two numbers are proposing today enjoy a full history, named for the third cycle of the adventures of Blueberry Charlier and Giraud, called "the golden mountain." 
These Blueberry history that should deal with an alleged German nobleman who knows the secret of a gold mine that is the greed of all adventurous but seems to be guarded by a lost soul. The first story is entitled "The German mine lost" and the second, "The Phantom of the golden bullets." As I said, both as a single unit and is worth reading for a trip.
As I said, who likes the western genre will enjoy this spectacular series. And although the website is the full collection in its French version in Castilian, my obsession led me to make my own digital version, making sure that both scans were as publishing the best possible. Besides, now that the resolution of the video cards can enjoy larger screens, you also need to adjust the digital versions of comics to this higher resolution. So I think it's worth tasting this year I prepared for the blog. If you like, may extend the public library that are partners request to acquire the series. Or if you prefer, you can acquire yourself. Never be the same enjoy a story in its paper version. More so when these issues are of great quality, with spectacular colors and the intoxicating scent with magazines and books recently released from the press.
Well, hopefully you like it. And if anyone is encouraged to share their views on this series, even better.
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