Here's an idea I just had that should not be seriously considered (probably):
I went thru all the words beginning with Be, and Lüc's ideas for that are better than anything I came up with. Then, I thought, well, I'll look up famous people from Milwaukee, keeping with the trend of our province being named after a person. Went to Wikipedia, "list of famous people from Milwaukee", and one immediately jumped out at me...Liberace!The flamboyant gay piano virtuoso. (Of whom it is said, he never came out of the closet because he was too busy wearing it.) How much further can you disassociate yourself from a fascistic past than by naming your province after Liberace? We could call it... Liberacia. Got the "liberty" part in it. And like our province, Liberace was half Italian. Only problems are, he wasn't from the Benito area (he was born and lived a few miles west of Benito), and also...doesn't start with Be.
Other (lame) ideas, none starting with Be... Cjartzara, "Oakland", for the name of the street that runs right thru the middle of our province. (Being a Cjovani, I like the Cj beginning of that one.) Cjarföglha (look, another one), "Oakleaf". There's another street in Benito by that name. Then I thought, why not just Riverside? That's an important name in Talossan history (Riverside High School) (isn't it also our province's capital?) But that would be something like Fiovasida, and we already have a Fiova. (I know, all bad ideas. Hey, I'm trying.)

https://comicbookplus.com/
This is a great source for extremely hard to find (public domain) comics.

https://www.tastingtable.com/891879/best-oat-milk-brands-ranked/
According to the Tasting Table, Oatly is apparently good, they named it their #1 pick in a review of 11 oat milk brands... (the stuff I usually get, Planet Oat, didn't fare so well...)

Received mine today!

https://www.clevescene.com/news/meet-the-micronationalists-dreaming-up-new-nations-in-ohio-and-beyond-42433056

An interesting article I discovered that mentions Talossa. (Cleveland Scene is a free weekly newspaper from Cleveland (duh). I imagine this article saw print in it at one time. (Tracking down a copy for the Talossan Archives might be difficult, people tend not to hang on to these things.))

Vitxalmour Conductour and I got the crazy idea to bike a local trail (The Greenway Trail in Lisbon, Ohio.) Neither of us had ridden bikes in years, but we thought it would be a fun thing to do. The trail (at the time) was like 27 miles, round trip. Somehow, we completed the entire trail, but at the point of nearly complete total exhaustion. I couldn't walk for a week afterwards. (And it was mainly my butt...the seat on the bike I rode was a torture device.) (I've definitely gained massive respect for professional riders.) Anyhow, with the Talossan Cycling Associations fantasy league being so popular, I suggested to Vitx that we attempt to ride the trail again, but this time doing it as a race. Maybe we could even get Talossans interested in betting on who would win, and film some of the action for a ForaTalossa segment. Sounded good to him. "I'll get the bikes cleaned up and ready to go." Unfortunately...the bikes were accidentally left out all winter, and had rusted and basically become unridable. So the Great Greenway Trail Race is cancelled until further notice.

I believe the issue Tric'hard is talking about may possibly be Superman #500. This run of Superman (from his death to resurrection) was fairly popular at the time, so they printed a whole bunch of every issue...I'm still finding them in dollar bins. However, #500 is a major key, and having it signed would make it slightly more valuable than an unsigned copy.

Vitx is currently working in a game store as a summer job (they sell Dungeons and Dragons stuff, board games, and trading card games)...well, apparently this place has the capabilities of printing custom cards. I'm going to get with him and see if we can print a sample deck using Marcel's designs, just to see how it turns out. I'll keep y'all posted.

Quote from: Tric'hard Lenxheir on August 03, 2023, 08:18:20 PMThe only comic I have that might be mildly valuable is the issue of Superman when he returns from the dead and the plastic sleeve is autographed by the artist. I also have the first ever appearance in marvel comics of The Punisher but it is in horrible condition.

Amazing Spider-Man #129? Yeah, it ain't worth anything. I'll gladly take it off your hands. 😆
Superman has died and resurrected in so many issues, I'll need more to go on. Issue number, title, and who signed it?

Quote from: þerxh Sant-Enogat on August 03, 2023, 01:19:14 AMHas the following album now been published in english ?
For me one of the best mainstream album those latter years
https://www.tcj.com/a-picture-isnt-always-worth-a-thousand-words/

Which album would you advise ?

One day we will be more than 2 in the club, and we'll organise the Talossan Comics Tournament ;-)

As far as I can tell, it has not yet been published in English. Looks interesting, tho.
The American comics industry still seems to be largely dominated by the Big Two (Marvel and DC), and that's pretty much all you can find at our local comics stores. Indie books and imports are hard to find unless I go to one of the bigger stores, say, in Pittsburgh. (Well...manga is pretty popular everywhere.) So, most of the stuff I have access to is superhero comics. (Occasionally I'll find some offbeat stuff in the bargain bins.)
Recommending stuff is hard, because I'm not sure what all you like. If you like superheroes, I've been enjoying Dan Jurgens' run on Action Comics lately (Superman), which came out a few years ago. I'm not sure if they've been reprinted in trade paperback (or album) format yet. (I mainly collect single issues.) I've recently begun a re-read of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which I think is great (I have the whole series.) I also really like Nemesis the Warlock...it's a British comic that came out in the eighties that I've recently discovered. The whole series has been reprinted in three volumes.
We actually have another member of the Society, Vitxalmour Conductour, who probably has over 10,000 comics by now. But he seldom gets on Witt.

To be honest, I've not really looked into web comics that much. (I know, I'm really behind the times. It would certainly save me space...instead of having boxes of print comics stacked everywhere!) The most reading of comics I've done online have just been old public domain comics that people have scanned and uploaded to various websites.

I probably applied for my initial card as soon as they were available. (You know me, I instantly jump on anything free.) Mic'haglh Autofil sent me a nice letter with my card. The letter was dated July 26, 2022. So it's not quite been a full year since this service was available. (I lost the card and have applied for my second one...yeah, I lost my ID card weeks after I got it, but still have Autofil's letter that accompanied it...)

Quote from: þerxh Sant-Enogat on July 21, 2023, 12:08:41 PMDo you know of the One-Stripe Album called « Phallaina » from Marietta Ren ?
Brand new graphic novel experience.. there's a version in english
https://www.francetvlab.fr/en/posts/phallaina-a-new-kind-of-graphic-novel
On ios and android

I was unfamiliar with it...downloaded it, currently reading it. Absolutely fantastic!!! Is this the only thing like this?

Quote from: þerxh Sant-Enogat on July 21, 2023, 06:36:30 AMAdequate place to go on our conversation on comics & graphic novels ?

Yep!

Quote from: þerxh Sant-Enogat on July 20, 2023, 06:11:50 PM

Quote from: Iason Taiwos on July 20, 2023, 03:40:56 PM(I felt the need to point this out because I am an obsessed comic book nerd.)

So am I ! Hugo Pratt is one of my favourite authors of course.. I'm lucky enough to have a public library nearby from which I borrow every week half a dozen comics or graphic novels, there are so many good albums to discover

I'd also like to add that even libraries in smaller towns like where I live are catching on. Our local library has two full bookcases devoted to comics/graphic novels. For years I've been digging thru back issue boxes at the local comics store, trying to complete my run of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman". Found out that my local library has the full series (in trade paperback format.)