I think I can make out 17 characters (including the two creators in yellow), or at least I know who their artists are. That includes at least 3 American characters. (I’ll add my guesses in comments, below)

This art was used as a poster for the Basel cartoon museum’s exhibit, last decade:

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(original link)

Original image here:
https://piefed.social/c/eurographicnovels/p/1937271/tintin-tuesday-a-panel-from-the-blue-lotus

More on Exem:
https://www.bedetheque.com/auteur-4983-BD-Exem.html

  • Sergio@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    Dang, I spent an hour trying to figure out who the Joan-Jett-looking character is:

    xWpU5dkv47pJXoa.jpg

    google images was like “idk someone from Corto Maltese maybe?” but they didn’t look like any character suggested. Exem did another poster with the same character from behind but google images was like “idk someone from Daria maybe?”

    rIQ58jx0Us5y1mN.jpg

    Exem’s Lambiek page has the OP poster with a list of the characters in it, but this character doesn’t seem to be listed there? it looks like they skip right over them.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
    1·
    9 days ago

    Foreground, working left-to-right in rows, moving upwards to the background.
    These are in upside-down text!

    (∀S∩) ,pɹɐɥɔɹO ʍoquᴉɐɹ, ɯoɹɟ 'doʇ dn ʍopuᴉʍ puᄅ uᴉ ɹǝɔuɐɥƆ snᴉlnſ
    ɐʞuɐɹℲ
    ǝɹnʇuǝʌpɐ uᴉʇuᴉ┴ ʎlɹɐǝ ɯoɹɟ uɐɯǝɔᴉloԀ
    ʇᴉns uᴉ ʎnƃ sǝɹɹo┴ olqɐԀ
    pɹɐqɯo˥ ʎppǝɹℲ
    (∀S∩) uɐƃᴉɹɹoƆ ʎɯɯᴉſ 'ɹǝɯᴉʇɹoW '(pǝɹnɔsqo) uᴉʇuᴉ┴
    ƃuɐᴉɥƆ 'ɐuɐuɐq ʎɐɹ
    ǝʞdnlℲ ⅋ ʞɔᴉnQ
    sqoɔɐſ ˙Ԁ˙Ǝ 'ǝƃɹǝH
    (∀S∩) sƃƃᴉſ 'ǝuᴉsɐʞɔǝq 'ʎnƃ ǝʇɹɐʍS ʇsooſ

    (flip that entire block upside-down to match the text up top)