I love Enki Bilal works.  In my opinion, he is one the most influential artist in the European graphic novels domain.  And I may not be the only one… as you will see.  In 1992 he wrote Equator Cold an excellent album part of the Nikopol Trilogy.  In this album, Nikopol participate in a new extreme sport : Chessboxing.  The game is a mix of boxing rounds with chess matchs.

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“The women are gone forever,” Gannon said, his voice heavy.  “The women are gone and nothing… nothing! will bring them back.  The Irish Diaspora is ended.  We have all come home to die.”

Gannon
The White Plague (Frank Herbert)

I went browsing for more webcomics.  I saw many and discarded most of them.  I think I may be little hard on the graphic part during the selection process.  I like to have nice drawing with a good story but not too much text.  I’m loosing interest when the text is cluttering the page.

But, I have found one that I like:  Argon Zark.  I think the best option here to present Argon Zark is to let the author talk about it himself.

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He cleared the readout and punched MEMORY TIMES again. The 333 reappeared.  “A ghost in the machine,” he said.  “A secret memory, unknown to—”

“So you found me,” a voice responded.  “Yet I was always here, to be evoked.”

Brother Paul exploring his calculator
God of Tarot (Piers Anthony)

Do you remember The Matrix?  Yes the blockbuster from 1999 with two sequels movies with mixed reviews.  The first one was good and its became part of North American culture.  As with any movies, they made figurines, posters, books and some comic books.  One legacy of the Matrix maybe the use of the web to promote a movie.  As such we still can find some tasty links to follow.  Here is some just after the jump.

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