Lord Handerson, therefore, seeks marriage. The suitors follow one another in his astonishing castle full of secret rooms. Hey, we wouldn’t be in Blue Beard ?
Sadima, for her part, works hard to serve Madame Watkins and her infernal daughters who dream of balls and beautiful parties. Their dream seems to come true: they are invited to Lord Handerson’s house. We are still not going to have the right to Cinderella ?
You’re still not there… Each contender will have to pass a series of tests to judge whether or not she is worthy of becoming Lady Handerson; the first being to spend a night in a mysterious room at Blenkinsop Castle…
© Vesco / Goust / Rue de Sèvres
After the excellent Of Cape and words you two Kerascoëthere is a new comic book adaptation of a novel by Flore Vesco. Between anagrams and lexical games, we find his love of language… including in the literal sense…! Oscillating between Jane Austen et Edgar Allan Poethe story is very original, gripping and above all terribly intriguing. Its rather macabre character and its invitation to sensuality, however, reserve it for an adolescent or adult audience.
Mayalen Goust frees itself from the norms of academic reading: the boxes implode, take astonishing forms when they do not disappear completely. It is tempting to get lost there like the heroine in the twists and turns of an Art Nouveau castle.
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