Loustal, jazz and crime fiction; Dubout, Marius, Fanny, César and Topaze; Peeters, Schuiten and Jules Verne. A beautiful vintage harvest for New Year’s Eve 2023.
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Reading time: 272 min
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Cinema, among other things, is music on images. The Vinyl Story collection is the opposite: images over music.
Loustal makes his cinema
Loustal has always illustrated the darkest stories with character. Its femme fatales and bad boys fit perfectly with the 13 titles of the volume Jazz and cinema. On side A, it goes from Maltese Falcon has the man with the golden armpassing through the theme of Third man. On side B, the French soundtracks, from Don’t touch the grisbi in the credits of Last five minutes.
Jazz and cinema illustrated by Loustal, one of the ten Vinyl story albums from Diggers factory.
Dubout illustrates Pagnol
In the retro genre, what a joy to find the mischievous curves of Dubout, his big ladies and his little gentlemen. Albert Dubout and Marcel Pagnol were very friends. This is why, after the war, Dubout signed the film posters Marius, Fanny, Caesarbut also Topazwith a more simple-minded Fernandel than nature, or Manon of the sources. In the image, a riot of villagers is slumming around the village fountain.
Albert Dubout illustrates Marcel Pagnol under the wide angle label of Bamboo editions.
Schuiten, Peeters, Verne and Amiens
Our third retro pick is The Return of Captain Nemo, an evocation of Jules Verne’s hero by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters. Well-known authors in the world of Obscure cities – with titles like The Walls of Samaris Or Urbicande Fever – have always assumed a desired proximity with the illustrations found in the prestigious editions of Extraordinary journeys by Jules Verne from the publisher Hetzel.
In homage to the author of 20000 Leagues Under the Sea who lived in Amiens, the city commissioned a monumental sculpture from the designer François Schuiten and the sculptor Pierre Matter: a mixture of animal and machine, called the nauti-octopus. 10 m long, 7 m high, the nauti-octopus will be erected in Amiens, at the beginning of 2025, for the 120e anniversary of the death of Jules Verne.
There is already the book. The stormy waves and the biomechanical monster emerge from the hatched black and white prints in The Return of Captain Nemopublished by Casterman.