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Sambre - masterpost

What is Sambre? It’s a series of French comics about the tortured gothic love affair of Bernard Sambre, the son of a mightily fucked-up bourgeois family, and Julie, the red-eyed bohemian daughter of a prostitute, against the backdrop of the Revolution of 1848. In case my two previous reblogs of it didn’t tip you off, the art is absolutely to die for—flawless pastiche of 19th century Romanticism at its morbid, brooding, melodramatic best. And did I mention Revolution of 1848.

I know, I know, right? Why haven’t I heard of this before, and what’s the catch? The catch is that it’s almost impossible to buy outside of France, and has never officially been translated into English. Luckily for everyone, some kind soul over at the Pirate Bay has a scanlation on offer, and thus I present to you:

Sambre
Volume 1: Forever Nevermore
Volume 2: I know you’ll come
Volume 3: Liberty, liberty…
Volume 4: Must we die together?
Volume 5: Cursed be the fruit of thy womb
Volume 6: The seas of purgatory

The artist, Yslaire, has also done a one-volume graphic novel that has been translated into English and is available in the US and UK: The Sky Over the Louvre, set in 1793, concerning Jacques-Louis David’s commission to paint a representation of the Supreme Being. Go buy it if you can find it!