FILM (4) Coeur de Pierre and Scary Godmother - 2 comics for shooting a movie

I have recently found 2 other comics which are worth shooting a movie of. Both of them are similar in style to Lencsilány. But guess what, these 2 comics were directly recommended by no one else, but the author of Gillygirl. (sample pages)

#1 Coeur de Pierre by Sévérine Gauthier et Jérémie Almanza

Highly acclaimed by critics, its cost is moins de 10 euros at http://www.bdfugue.com/coeur-de-pierre

Summary " Le  jour  où  la  petite  fille  au  cœur  d'artichaut  rencontre  le  garçon au cœur de pierre, elle tombe éperdument amoureuse de lui. Dès  lors,  elle  lui  offre  chaque  jour  une  feuille de  son  cœur  que chaque jour celui-ci rejette plus méchamment. Le cœur de la petite fille se rétrécit et bientôt elle perd sa joie de vivre. Visiblement, le garçon  au  cœur  de  pierre  ne  semble  pas  du tout  prêt  à  se  laisser aimer... "

#2 the Scary Godmother by Jill Thompson

Summary: "C'est son premier Halloween, mais pour Hannah Marie, la fête vire au cauchemar. Elle, qui a si peur des fantômes, doit affronter son cousin Jimmy qui prend un malin plaisir à la terroriser. Mais Scary Godmother n'a pas dit son dernier mot ! La sorcière au legging bariolé, accompagnée de son chat fantôme et de quelques amis hauts en couleur, est fin prête pour donner une bonne leçon à Jimmy. Halloween s'annonce mémorable."the book is available here.

By the way, the first Hungarian comic was written by Jankó, János.

(You may also want read more about the history of the Hungarian Comics at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_comics)

And some say the first ever cartoonist and polyhistor was the Swiss Rodolphe Töpffer. A book about him is readable on google books.

What's your opinion?

FILM (3) Lencsilány is awaiting

Although Hungary cannot show off such a long tradition in the world of comics as US can, there is an author with a very good book that would fit perfectly in a Tim Burton scene.
The book is called Lencsilány. As a critic says "it is a peculiar vicious world. The solitude and the dark silence is more threatening than wicked mohawks and evil monsters." The story has references to Edgar Allan Poe and is in line with Géza Csáth's world view.


For me it is also similar to Neil Gaiman's Coraline. Did you see the movie? Actually it was just scary. Just imagine buttons in the place of your eyes. And a giant spider trying to eat you. And you are not like Frodo, not saved every time. When the spider comes, we feel real chances that she gets Caroline. Does she go back to her at-first-far-too-kind parents. No, the girl said: Nevermore.

I think she would be a perfect partner for the Pumpkin King.



Of course in such a context, love also has different meaning. The little Gillygirl (an english equivalent for Lencsilány) says things like this: I am too tired. Let me die.

The story ends with the black silence absorbs that scary world. So Gillygirl is awaiting ... to be a film star.

Some pages of the Lencsilány can be read here. It is english, don't worry. and have FUN:

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