A winning, intimate and satirical story
The final selection for the FNAC France Inter BD prize included five comics and graphic books, by mainly French-speaking authors: Inside, de Will McPhail, Bobigny 1972 of the historian Marie Bardiaux-Vaïenten and the designer Carole Maurel, Impenetrable by the Belgian illustrator Alix Garin, The Roadby Manu Larcenet, and Ulysses and Cyrano by Antoine Cristau, Servain and Xavier Doriso. The jury ultimately decided to honor Will McPhlain’s quasi-autobiographical story, signing with Inside the intimate story of a New Yorker in search of authentic social relationships. A story anchored in the zany humor of the Scottish illustrator, whose drawings, published on his Instagram account, highlight the contradictions of neurotic contemporary societies.
A first graphic novel praised by critics
With Inside, Will McPhail signs his first graphic novel, selected for its aesthetic inspired by Calvin et Hobbes and for its fair look at human relationships, too often perforated and superficial. The look of the illustrator of New Yorker is thus praised for its accuracy and its universalizable character: the description of a common frustration within our social relationships, between role playing and the inability to say what we really feel.
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