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Simon Of The River by Claude Auclair
Requirements: CBR Reader. 160 MB
Overview: Simon Of The River (Simon du Fleuve/Simon van de Rivier) is a post-apocalyptic French graphic novel series written by Claude Auclair, with 9 volumes published between 1976-1978, and a second cycle from 1988-1989. Simon du Fleuve started in the pages of Tintin. The heirs of Jean Giono have stated that elements of the story are stolen from Giono's Le chant du monde.
At least three albums have been published in English so far:
Auclair's Simon du fleuve is another adventure strip for thinking readers, in which the action is an excuse for social commentary (which, thankfully, won't be overbearing during the series original incarnation and will only become so in its sequel, that was published more than a decade later).
It's set in a post-modern world, à la Jeremiah, but the collapse of civilization was not due to world war III. The great economic systems of the world just collapsed, leaving us all in a state of anarchic semi-barbarism. In western Europe, a handful of big cities are under a fascistic rule and try to maintain their influence over a countryside peopled by new, small agrarian societies.
The entire series is relatively short, with only six stories. The main character was introduced in "The Ballad of Red-Hair", which as far as I know was never collected in album form. Simon du Fleuve ("Simon of the River") is a loner, living off the land, but we know he's come as a child from one of the big cities where his father was a scientist. Simon holds in his hands the legacy of his dad's research: a gun that's the sole example of its kind, and which could prove disastrous in the hands of the masters of the cities should they reverse-engineer it. The only way to destroy the weapon for good, apparently, is to take it back to a lab in city N.W.#3 and to insert a certain key into it. (Why the gun can't simply be melted down is unexplained; pehaps it would blow up the countryside).
In a kiddie comic, this gun would of course be Simon's "secret power", which he would use at crucial moments; here, it's really what it's said to be : a menace, a hindrance, and the reason Simon must one day go back to the city.
Simon Of The River
# Note: European Comics, Sci-Fiction, Mature Reader, Scanlation.
Download Instructions:
Simon of the River 1 Clan of Centaurs -- http://novafile.org/yyord1rqy1f5
Simon of the River 2 Slaves -- http://novafile.org/pei58h9ocjyr
Simon of the River 3 Mailis -- http://novafile.org/abvprszw1c0p
Requirements: CBR Reader. 160 MB
Overview: Simon Of The River (Simon du Fleuve/Simon van de Rivier) is a post-apocalyptic French graphic novel series written by Claude Auclair, with 9 volumes published between 1976-1978, and a second cycle from 1988-1989. Simon du Fleuve started in the pages of Tintin. The heirs of Jean Giono have stated that elements of the story are stolen from Giono's Le chant du monde.
At least three albums have been published in English so far:
- Simon of the River 01 - The tribe of the horsemen
Simon of the River 02 - Slaves
Simon of the River 03 - Mailis
Auclair's Simon du fleuve is another adventure strip for thinking readers, in which the action is an excuse for social commentary (which, thankfully, won't be overbearing during the series original incarnation and will only become so in its sequel, that was published more than a decade later).
It's set in a post-modern world, à la Jeremiah, but the collapse of civilization was not due to world war III. The great economic systems of the world just collapsed, leaving us all in a state of anarchic semi-barbarism. In western Europe, a handful of big cities are under a fascistic rule and try to maintain their influence over a countryside peopled by new, small agrarian societies.
The entire series is relatively short, with only six stories. The main character was introduced in "The Ballad of Red-Hair", which as far as I know was never collected in album form. Simon du Fleuve ("Simon of the River") is a loner, living off the land, but we know he's come as a child from one of the big cities where his father was a scientist. Simon holds in his hands the legacy of his dad's research: a gun that's the sole example of its kind, and which could prove disastrous in the hands of the masters of the cities should they reverse-engineer it. The only way to destroy the weapon for good, apparently, is to take it back to a lab in city N.W.#3 and to insert a certain key into it. (Why the gun can't simply be melted down is unexplained; pehaps it would blow up the countryside).
In a kiddie comic, this gun would of course be Simon's "secret power", which he would use at crucial moments; here, it's really what it's said to be : a menace, a hindrance, and the reason Simon must one day go back to the city.
Simon Of The River
- Writer(s) and Art(s) by Claude Auclair
Publisher: Le Lombard
- # 01. The Tribe of the Horsemen.
- A man crossing the mountains finds a cave to hide from the snowstorm. Inside he notices that not too long ago the cave has been used, it seems to have some religious statues in it. The next morning, as he descends in the snow, horsemen come to him and capture him. It turns out that the men try to form a bigger group, the people they "capture" are free to stay or go, and the man, Simon, stays. But his presence, and the friendship he shares with a woman, causes rising tension between him and one of the horsemen...
# 02. The slaves.
- Simon meets two men from the clan, they managed to escape after the raid. They tell of the road the captured took, it doesn't lead to one of the cities. They decide to follow the trail, and several days later they reach a giant steel factory right next to a mine. The prisoners were taken there, to work as slaves. It takes them several days to build a camp, draw a map of the entire complex, and refine a plan. And when everything is ready Simon will stay behind for his part, and the others go to the factory "to look for work"...
# 03. Maïlis.
- He has been riding through the rainstorm for hours when he smells the smoke of a fire. He goes to the source of the smell and finds a house: shelter! At first his welcome is rather hostile, but soon he gets a roof over his head and some soup to fill his stomach. He stays with the two women, mother and daughter, longer than he intended. But the tension between the three people rises as it becomes clear that the women are hiding things, and Simon doesn't seem to do what they had hoped he would...
# Note: European Comics, Sci-Fiction, Mature Reader, Scanlation.
Download Instructions:
Simon of the River 1 Clan of Centaurs -- http://novafile.org/yyord1rqy1f5
Simon of the River 2 Slaves -- http://novafile.org/pei58h9ocjyr
Simon of the River 3 Mailis -- http://novafile.org/abvprszw1c0p
- Mirror:
- Simon of the River 1 Clan of Centaurs -- http://uplly.com/999567fd63d3
Simon of the River 2 Slaves -- http://uplly.com/n10egtuv6503
Simon of the River 3 Mailis -- http://uplly.com/s83j3ak1p1b1
