ONE DAY, ONE BOX – Until the opening of the festival on January 30, Le Figaro presents you exclusively every day with a box of the albums in the running for the Fauve d’or.
Before the opening of the event dedicated to the ninth Art on January 30, Le Figaro presents you every day with a box of the 44 albums in the running for the Fauve d’or, commented by its author, its publisher or its translator.
Grandville – Force majeure, by Bryan Talbot
The story: Two hundred years ago, England lost the war against Napoleon before being invaded by France. An animal timeline, Grandville is a detective series that is teeming with cinematographic, literary or pictorial references, as well as homages to the 9e Art !
Author’s comment: “This panel immediately reveals to the reader that we are in an alternative Belle Époque France, thanks to the costumes worn by the protagonists and the Art Nouveau design decor, and in a world populated by anthropomorphic animals. It sets the scene for the first scene of the book by offering a calm and friendly picture, without the slightest hint of the horror to come, lurking on the other side of the page. A violent gang war will indeed pit the Godfather of the Paris underworld, Tiberius Koenig, against both the world of London crime and Detective Inspector Lebrock from Scotland Yard. The latter, a tenacious badger from the working classes whose deductive skills have nothing to envy of those of Sherlock Holmes, will stop at nothing in order to restore order and bring Koenig to justice!”
Editions Delirium
