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The first comic book I had access to buy on a regular, monthly basis, with the money I got from mowing the lawn of my grandfather’s cantankerous next-door neighbor, was Tomb of Dracula. Having gotten swept up in the latest wave of Monster Mania that regularly sweeps through popular culture, I was able to keep up with the adventures of Quincy Harker (born at the end of Stoker’s original novel), Rachel van Helsing (granddaughter of the venerable Abraham van Helsing), and the other vampire hunters who served as Dracula’s antagonists and foils. The stories were written by Marv Wolfman (no, I’m not remotely kidding – I always assumed it was some facetious pen name, but that’s the writer’s honest-to-gosh real name), and drawn by the inimitable Gene Colan, in collaboration with the equally brilliant ink artist Tom Palmer.** | The first comic book I had access to buy on a regular, monthly basis, with the money I got from mowing the lawn of my grandfather’s cantankerous next-door neighbor, was Tomb of Dracula. Having gotten swept up in the latest wave of Monster Mania that regularly sweeps through popular culture, I was able to keep up with the adventures of Quincy Harker (born at the end of Stoker’s original novel), Rachel van Helsing (granddaughter of the venerable Abraham van Helsing), and the other vampire hunters who served as Dracula’s antagonists and foils. The stories were written by Marv Wolfman (no, I’m not remotely kidding – I always assumed it was some facetious pen name, but that’s the writer’s honest-to-gosh real name), and drawn by the inimitable Gene Colan, in collaboration with the equally brilliant ink artist Tom Palmer.** | ||
- | L’une de mes bizarreries personnelles étranges, oui, je l’avoue, est que, pour la plupart, je n’ai PAS grandi en lisant des BD. Quand j’étais enfant, j’ai eu une BD de temps en temps, mais elles étaient rares. En tant qu’adulte (au moins superficiellement), | + | L’une de mes bizarreries personnelles étranges |
- | La première BD que je pouvais | + | La première BD que j'ai pu acheter régulièrement, |
- | These inexpensive masterpieces really caught my attention. Gene and Tom’s art was lush and incredibly detailed. Gene was undoubtedly a phenomenal pencil artist, and Tom drew over Gene’s pencils with India ink and the application of Zip-a-Tone (the tiny closely placed dots or parallel lines sometimes used for shading in comics) with unparalleled flair and skill. | + | **These inexpensive masterpieces really caught my attention. Gene and Tom’s art was lush and incredibly detailed. Gene was undoubtedly a phenomenal pencil artist, and Tom drew over Gene’s pencils with India ink and the application of Zip-a-Tone (the tiny closely placed dots or parallel lines sometimes used for shading in comics) with unparalleled flair and skill. |
- | As is so often the case, my parents threw my comics away during my early teen years, and I didn’t think much about comics again until I met my close friend, Raymond. Raymond had a HUGE collection of comics, and he generously sold me his copies of the original Tomb of Dracula issues that I had sadly lost. One thing led to another and here I am, 42 years later, with a genuinely unwieldy and unmanageably large collection of four color adventures. | + | As is so often the case, my parents threw my comics away during my early teen years, and I didn’t think much about comics again until I met my close friend, Raymond. Raymond had a HUGE collection of comics, and he generously sold me his copies of the original Tomb of Dracula issues that I had sadly lost. One thing led to another and here I am, 42 years later, with a genuinely unwieldy and unmanageably large collection of four color adventures.** |
- | Digital Domination | + | Ces chefs-d’œuvre peu chers attiraient vraiment mon attention. L’art de Gene et Tom était luxuriant et incroyablement détaillé. Gene était sans aucun doute un artiste du crayon phénoménal et Tom dessinait par-dessous ses crayons avec de l’encre de Chine et l’application de Zip-a-Tone (les minuscules points ou lignes parallèles très proches les uns des autres, qui étaient utilisés parfois pour colorier des BD) avec un flair et une compétence uniques. |
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+ | Comme c’est souvent le cas, mes parents ont jeté mes BD quand je suis devenu adolescent et je n’y ai pas beaucoup repensé avant de rencontrer mon excellent ami, Raymond. Raymond avait une ÉNORME collection de BD et il m’a généreusement vendu ses exemplaires de numéros originaux de Tomb of Dracula que j’avais tristement perdus. De fil en aiguille, me voici, 42 ans plus tard, avec une grande collection d’aventures en quatre couleurs, dont la taille la rend vraiment peu maniable et ingérable. | ||
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+ | **Digital Domination | ||
This situation is a genuine problem for me. I haven’t bought any new comics in about a decade or so, but I do still like to go back and re-read some of my favorites. Jim Starlin’s Warlock series, for example, was very innovative and creative when it first saw the light of newsstands in 1972. Side note, most readers are undoubtedly familiar with at least one of Starlin’s signature creations: Thanos. Yes, the antagonist for the last two Avengers movies was created by Jim Starlin in the early 1970’s, and was the main antagonist in the feature Warlock, first in Strange Tales, and then in his own eponymous series. | This situation is a genuine problem for me. I haven’t bought any new comics in about a decade or so, but I do still like to go back and re-read some of my favorites. Jim Starlin’s Warlock series, for example, was very innovative and creative when it first saw the light of newsstands in 1972. Side note, most readers are undoubtedly familiar with at least one of Starlin’s signature creations: Thanos. Yes, the antagonist for the last two Avengers movies was created by Jim Starlin in the early 1970’s, and was the main antagonist in the feature Warlock, first in Strange Tales, and then in his own eponymous series. | ||
- | But who in their right mind would want to go through a bunch of comics long boxes to find the particular comic they wanted to read at any point in time? Not me, I can tell you. It’s far too big of a lift at this point. The obvious solution is to manage a digital backup collection. | + | But who in their right mind would want to go through a bunch of comics long boxes to find the particular comic they wanted to read at any point in time? Not me, I can tell you. It’s far too big of a lift at this point. The obvious solution is to manage a digital backup collection.** |
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+ | Domination numérique | ||
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+ | Cette situation me pose un véritable problème. Depuis à peu près une décennie, je n’achète plus de BD nouvelles, mais j’aime toujours relire certaines de mes préférées. La série Warlock de Jim Starlin, par exemple, était très innovante et créative lors de sa première apparition dans les kiosques aux journaux en 1972. D’ailleurs, | ||
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+ | Mais quelle personne saine d’esprit voudrait rechercher, dans une foule de boîtes longues pleines de BD, une BD précise qu’elle voulait lire à un moment donné ? Pas moi, en tout cas. À ce stade les boîtes sont bien trop lourdes. La solution évidente est de gérer une collection numérique de sauvegarde. | ||
- | Scanning | + | **Scanning |
Fortunately, | Fortunately, | ||
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from a terminal. | from a terminal. | ||
- | Remember from earlier columns, SUDO (or Super User DO) gives you temporary administrative access to install software. APT-GET is the command-line software install/ | + | Remember from earlier columns, SUDO (or Super User DO) gives you temporary administrative access to install software. APT-GET is the command-line software install/ |
- | Comix | + | Le scannage |
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+ | Heureusement, | ||
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+ | L’application que j’utilise pour cela sous Linux est Comix. Elle peut être facilement installée à partir d'un terminal, avec : | ||
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+ | sudo apt-get install comix | ||
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+ | Souvenez-vous des articles précédents que SUDO (ou Super User DO) vous donne un accès administratif temporaire pour installer des logiciels. APT-GET est le gestionnaire en ligne de commande de l’installation, | ||
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+ | **Comix | ||
Once Comix installation has completed, we can launch it by clicking the Dash (top left icon on your control strip that runs along the left side of the screen), and type in ‘COM’. This should be sufficient to show the icon for Comix. Click to launch it: | Once Comix installation has completed, we can launch it by clicking the Dash (top left icon on your control strip that runs along the left side of the screen), and type in ‘COM’. This should be sufficient to show the icon for Comix. Click to launch it: | ||
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sudo apt-get install rar | sudo apt-get install rar | ||
- | and see what happens. Linux goes out to the internet and does a small download, followed by an installation. So, now, let’s try again: | + | and see what happens. Linux goes out to the internet and does a small download, followed by an installation. So, now, let’s try again:** |
- | NOW, we’re talking! This cover is NOT by Gene and Tom, although it is a good cover. It’s penciled by Gil Kane, and looks to me like it’s inked by John Romita, who was best known as the long-time artist on Spider-Man, after Spidey’s co-creator Steve Ditko departed from Marvel Comics. | + | Comix |
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+ | Une fois que l’installation de Comix est terminée, nous pouvons le lancer en cliquant sur le Dash (l’icône en haut à gauche sur la barre de contrôle côté gauche de l’écran) et tapez COM. Cela devrait être suffisant pour que l’icône de Comix s’affiche. Cliquez dessus pour la lancer : | ||
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+ | J’avoue que l’interface est un peu spartiate, mais il s’agit d’une application qui n’a qu’une seule utilisation spécialisée. Cliquez sur le menu File (Fichier) en haut et allez à Open (Ouvrir), puis naviguez vers l’emplacement où l’un de vos fichiers de bande dessinée (un fichier en format CBR ou CBZ) est stocké. | ||
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+ | Ouille ! | ||
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+ | Oh là ! Cela n’a pas fonctionné. Même avant le clic sur un CBR, Comix a généré cette erreur : | ||
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+ | La seule solution semble être de retourner au terminal et taper une autre commande apt-get. Essayons ceci : | ||
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+ | sudo apt-get install rar | ||
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+ | et regardons ce que cela donne. Linux s’en va sur le Net, fait un petit téléchargement, | ||
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+ | **NOW, we’re talking! This cover is NOT by Gene and Tom, although it is a good cover. It’s penciled by Gil Kane, and looks to me like it’s inked by John Romita, who was best known as the long-time artist on Spider-Man, after Spidey’s co-creator Steve Ditko departed from Marvel Comics. | ||
Navigating in Comix | Navigating in Comix | ||
- | In the top left corner of the Comix window, we have First Page, Previous Page, Next Page, and Last Page navigation buttons. To the right, we have buttons to fit to page, fit horizontally, | + | In the top left corner of the Comix window, we have First Page, Previous Page, Next Page, and Last Page navigation buttons. To the right, we have buttons to fit to page, fit horizontally, |
- | On the left side, there are thumbnails for each page. Let’s look at one of my all-time favorite comic book panels by finding it in the thumbnails (close to the last page), then clicking it: | + | AH, c’est nettement mieux ! Cette couverture n’est PAS de Gene et Tom, bien que ce soit une bonne couverture. Les coups de crayon sont de Gil Kane et l’encrage est, me semble-t-il, |
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+ | La navigation dans Comix | ||
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+ | Dans le coin en haut à gauche de la fenêtre de Comix, il y a les boutons de navigation First Page (Première page), Previous Page (Page précédente), | ||
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+ | **On the left side, there are thumbnails for each page. Let’s look at one of my all-time favorite comic book panels by finding it in the thumbnails (close to the last page), then clicking it: | ||
Wow! I still have to say, that is just a masterful use of shadow and light to produce an incredibly memorable image! | Wow! I still have to say, that is just a masterful use of shadow and light to produce an incredibly memorable image! | ||
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And, just to show Gene’s versatility, | And, just to show Gene’s versatility, | ||
- | Obviously, it’s much easier to pull out one 2 TB external drive with several thousand comics and open the one you want, than to dig through a bunch of physical boxes. As much of a simple application as it is, Comix is a real blessing in allowing me to read my comics collection in a convenient fashion. | + | Obviously, it’s much easier to pull out one 2 TB external drive with several thousand comics and open the one you want, than to dig through a bunch of physical boxes. As much of a simple application as it is, Comix is a real blessing in allowing me to read my comics collection in a convenient fashion.** |
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+ | Côté gauche, il y a une vignette pour chaque page. Regardons une des images, celle que je préfère depuis belle lurette, en la trouvant parmi les vignettes (vers la dernière page), puis en cliquant dessus : | ||
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+ | Waouh ! Je dois dire, comme toujours, que c’est l' | ||
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+ | Et, juste pour montrer la versatilité de Gene, voici la couverture et la page de garde de la BD satirique hilaire et incisive « Howard the Duck », que nous avons vu le mois dernier : | ||
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+ | Bien évidemment, | ||
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