Adaptation of novels, popular works, bio-graphics are on the menu of our special November comics selection!
Eclore, Aude Mermilliod, Casterman
Aude Mermilliod continues with Eclore to explore her sexual, sentimental and psychological intimacy. Through her touching and sincere testimony, she urges women to reclaim their bodies.
We liked:
-this plant whose roots become stronger as the main character meets
-the evolution of color throughout the album, leaving a growing place for plants at the very end.
Meteors, Deveney, Redolfi, Delcourt
In this sensitive choral story, the authors immerse us in a landscape at the end of the world where the gravity of the snow muffles the cries.
No superhero who would come to save humanity but intertwined lives who show their strengths and their vulnerabilities in the face of the coming end.
Egyptologix by Gabrille Lavoir and Arnaud Pizzuti, Dunodgraphic
Set off to discover 3000 years of Egyptian history, follow the adventures of Champollion, Maspério, Mariette and Carter who devoted their lives to unraveling the mysteries of the pharaohs with this popular work, Egyptologix.
We love the angle chosen by the authors: telling the history of Egypt through Egyptology.
Happily, science, Cécily de Villepoix, The comic magazine, Casterman
How was anesthesia, the existence of “healthy carriers” or even the mechanisms at work in digestion discovered? A little by chance or by intuition. That of daring, and sometimes unscrupulous, scientists whom history has forgotten. We remember Pasteur, but who knows Jenner, the inventor of vaccination? Or even Margaret Crane, the originator of the first pregnancy test? And what can we say about Horace Wells, the dentist at the origin of operations under anesthesia who carried out his first experiments on… himself.
It is through unusual stories that the authors of Happily, science shows us the path to great discoveries!
On the line, Julien Martinière, Sarbacane
If you haven't read Joseph Ponthus' little gem, A la ligne, now is the time to catch up by opening this comic book adaptation (but also read the novel for the pleasure of the pen of this author who left far too young ).
A la ligne recounts the daily life at the factory of a temporary worker: the noises, the suffering of the body, the exhausting repetition of gestures. What keeps him going? the love and memories of his other life illuminated by culture and literature.
With the poetic and angry pen of Joseph Ponthus, Julien Martinière was able to combine black and white drawings which restore many details of the worker's outfit to the world of work showing the latter's alienation.
Orson by Youssel Daoudi, Delcourt, Mirages
Youssef Daoudi adapts the fascinating and tormented life of Orson Welles into his graphic novel. It explores the duality between the man, Orson, and his alter ego, Welles, whose genius and demons both sculpted and destroyed his career in Hollywood.
By highlighting the triumphs and failures of Welles, notably through the impact of his masterpiece Citizen Kane, it leads a profound reflection on the price of artistic genius, fierce independence, and the tragedy that follows from this.
The War of the Buttons, Louis Pergaud, illustrated by Florence Cestac, Gallimard
In a single drawing, we immediately recognize the touch of Florence Cestac who here takes a great classic written in 1912 to illustrate it with her big noses.
Published in 1990, the book had been unavailable for a long time; the anniversary of the publishing house is the occasion for a new edition, with a redesigned model and colors.
Florence Cestac also says she enjoyed taking up this work and bringing it up to date!
Géostratégix, the complete, Pascal Boniface and Tommy, Dunodgraphic
Geopolitologist Pascal Boniface deciphers the main workings of major historical events since 1945 and their current consequences. A story judiciously presented in images by the designer Tommy, who adds explanatory cards and a welcome touch of humor to a vast gallery of portraits. We learn and understand by smiling.
Divided into three parts, this popular comic allows us to understand the foundations of the international order, then its upheaval with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and finally its current reconstructions.
The major questions, whether it concerns armaments, European construction, tensions in the Middle East or North-South relations, for example, are always presented in a simple, but fair and precise manner.
Anita Conti, Catel & Bocquet, Casterman
After devoting a graphic novel to Kiki de Montparnasse, Olympe de Gouges, Joséphine Baker and Alice Guy, Catel and Bocquet continue to highlight these women who are often invisible in history by recounting the life and journey of the first female oceanographer and pioneer of ecology, Anita Conti.
His life is a dive into the heart of an unknown and wild world, but above all a universal cry of alarm: if the seas represent 3/4 of the surface of our planet, its future depends on their preservation .
Frank Margerin: A look behind the scenes
A behind-the-scenes look at Frank Margerin
All the creative secrets of one of the most notable comic book authors of his generation!
In the little papers of Margerin is a beautiful book which brings together more than 200 sketches by the author.
Among them, more than a quarter of unpublished works including 3 plates and numerous illustrations never seen or published from his cult Lucien series.
All the themes that are dear to him are covered: rock, motorbikes, friends, sport, without forgetting the famous characters who made him famous, such as Lucien or Momo the courier.
These “crobards”, as he likes to call them, which have been scribbled on the corner of a page, record his current graphic inspirations or are the result of real research for his albums.
Unearthed from the depths of the drawers of his studio, these sketches, embellished with texts by the artist, aim to reveal in the most authentic way the behind-the-scenes of the artist's work.
