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comic strips such as Ric Hochet, Tanguy et Laverdure, Alix L'Intrepide and so many more titles that were depicted in the realism genre long before they invented the photocapture montage and the digital processing of images to look like illustrations - creating over time a vast library of digital "bones" or skeletons and scenic backgrounds that can be composited and recycled into endless combinations, building a significant array of visual styles and canopies for the modern digital artist and publisher.

With macros and advanced plug ins from customized applications at the fingertip of large publishers, the entire effort of doing repetitive work can be cut short dramatically from the “Dark Ages” when artists labored over and over using all kind of makeshift tools, from thin vellum paper and transparent plastic slides to a light-table or "lightbox" that allowed the illustrator to cut time and re-draw part of a panel with a different "stock" background from the studio's library.

The 1960s documentaries from Disney television series reveal-
ing how illustrators produced the great Disney classics, Snow White, Bambi, and Pinocchio, were in reality using numerous production techniques that were already widespread decades earlier in Europe in creating and printing countless titles for BDs.

Many studios and artists in Europe have vanished, and what remains are almost bullet proof powerhouses that have engineered vertical empires and manage libraries of titles that constitute national treasures in recent popular art and entertainment.

Venerable founding publishers such as Le Lombard, Casterman, Dargaud and Dupuis have long been acquired by media conglomerates.

And in catching up with the latest of comic books from Europe, you have to remember the tradition of the continent. The comic books there always have been found to contain "strange humor" or humor that does not connect with North American audiences.