Created by Ted Benoit Pseudonym of Thierry Benoît (1949-2016) En fin! A P.I. with appeal! RAY BANANA is a post-modernist American private eye, as imagined by the French in the eighties in a series of quirky, offbeat bandes dessinées. He's a slouching hepcat shamus in retro-fifties gear, shades and attitude, who stars in a series … Continue reading Ray Banana
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Gil Jourdan
Created by Maurice Tillieux (1921-78 Don't let the kid stuff fool ya... Gil Jourdan was a very popular, and surprisingly hard-boiled, series of Belgian graphic novels in the sixties and seventies relating the adventures of young ("I started very early") private eye GIL JOURDAN. They make for thrilling reads, full of witty dialogue, fast-paced P.I. … Continue reading Gil Jourdan
Jack Palmer
Created by Réné Pétillon(1945- 2018) JACK PALMER is the clown prince of bede private eyes. He's a scooter-riding squirt; a hapless low-rent private peeper in a beat-up fedora and a dingy, rumpled trench coat several sizes too big for him, with an ass-backwards style of investigation that leaves him stuck in some pretty bizarre predicaments. Not … Continue reading Jack Palmer