Meččyniekan Syväin - Metsästäjän Sydän

'Frieren Head Angle' Art Challenge

4.12.2025

European comic

alkup. 24.7.2024

"Paul continued by suggesting that it is certainly a challenge not being able to impose a clearly defined “Euro comics” label on the world. Instead it comes down to individual works finding their audience outside their culture." https://www.europecomics.com/thing-european-comics/

Modern

The roots of European on-paper comics date back to 18th century caricatures (mocking others styles or behaviors) by artists such as William Hogarth. The early 19th century Swiss artist Rodolphe Töpffer is regarded by many as the "father of the modern comic" and his publication Histoire de Mr. Vieux Bois (1837) is sometimes called the first "comic book".

Other precursors include illustrated picture books such as Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz (1865).

Franco-Belgian comics, Spanish comics, and Italian comics are historically amongst the dominant scenes of European comics.

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The European, American, and Japanese comics traditions have followed different paths. Europeans have seen their tradition as beginning with the Swiss Rodolphe Töpffer from as early as 1827 and Americans have seen the origin of theirs in Richard F. Outcault's 1890s newspaper strip The Yellow Kid, though many Americans have come to recognize Töpffer's precedence. Japan has a long history of satirical cartoons and comics leading up to the World War II era.

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Finland

Professori Itikaisen tutkimusretki (Professor Itikainen's Research Expedition) by Ilmari Vainio, which appeared on November 21, 1911, is considered first Finnish comic book

https://metsastajan-sydan.blogspot.com/2023/07/european-comic-format.html

Pre-modern

Earlier, paintings, depicting stories in subsequent frames, using descriptive text resembling bubbles-text, were used in murals, one such example is written in Greek, dating to the 2nd century and found in Capitolias, today in Jordan.

Medieval

matttt - comic & manga history: The greatest manga artist you've never heard of

mix of european and japanese style comics

style challenge

13.9.2024

I did another style challenge ( "western") after Spilled Ink video

and European comic style challenge on my own

European Comics summary

17.7.2023

European Album

hard covers, indicates a higher level and appreciation
soft covers
colors
at least 48 pages
100 pages is common
about A4 size (ISO 216, 210mm × 297mm) or bigger
full story is in album

"Pocket book" (at least in Finland)

soft covers
about A5 size (ISO 216, 148mm × 210mm)
colors
several stories collection

vahnu Pilote avieza

15.7.2025

old Pilote's page layouts

https://archive.org/details/album-pilote-n-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilote

"Pilote oli ranskalainen sarjakuvalehti, jota julkaistiin vuosina 1959–1989. Lehti esitteli aikansa merkittävimpiä ranskalaisia ja belgialaisia sarjakuvataiteilijoita ja esitteli merkittäviä sarjoja, kuten Astérix, Barbe-Rouge, Blueberry, Achille Talon ja Valérian et Laureline. Lehdessä esiintyivät merkittäviä sarjakuvakirjailijoita, kuten René Goscinny, Jean-Michel Charlier, Greg, Pierre Christin ja Jacques Lob, sekä taiteilijoita, kuten Jijé, Morris, Albert Uderzo, Jean (Mœbius) Giraud, Enki Bilal, Jean-Claude Mézières, Jacques Tardi, Philippe Druillet, Marcel Gotlib, Alexis ja Annie Goetzinger."
"Pilote was a French comics magazine published from 1959 to 1989. Showcasing most of the major French or Belgian comics talents of its day the magazine introduced major series such as Astérix, Barbe-Rouge, Blueberry, Achille Talon, and Valérian et Laureline. Major comics writers like René Goscinny, Jean-Michel Charlier, Greg, Pierre Christin and Jacques Lob were featured in the magazine, as were artists such as Jijé, Morris, Albert Uderzo, Jean (Mœbius) Giraud, Enki Bilal, Jean-Claude Mézières, Jacques Tardi, Philippe Druillet, Marcel Gotlib, Alexis, and Annie Goetzinger."

manga designs "tsurime & tareme"

30.11.2025

most ISTP-characters have that tsurime design

https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2020/01/tsurime.html

In Japanese, tsurime ツリ目 means "upturned eyes," literally "fished up eyes." Broadly speaking, it's an eye shape in which the outer corner of the eye is much higher than the inner corner.

The opposite term, downturned eyes, is tareme タレ目.

Tropes

In anime, characters with tsurime ツリ目 eyes tend to be strong and assertive. They don't hold back at starting fights. They're either serious about something, full of conviction, or are scheming and sadistic. In any case, these are eyes convey hostility.

The tsurime eyes are also considered to be cooler and more mature-looking. Cooler in the Terminator 2 kind of cooler.

otoko-masari 男勝り
Topping men. Winning against men. Refers to female characters that could probably beat male characters in a fight, who're usually deemed unfeminine because of that.

masaru 勝る
To outrival. To win against. To top. To be better than.

As one would expect, not all tsurime characters have these traits, but characters that have these traits usually also have tsurime eyes.

Furthermore, characters that have tareme eyes have the opposing type of personality: they're more docile, avoid confrontation, frail rather than strong, and cute rather than cool.

Siblings

A sub-trope is that two siblings, sometimes twins, often sisters, have opposing eye shapes, because they also have opposing personalities, and the eye shapes often reflect those personalities.