Just because summer seems to drag on like caramel doesn’t mean we should neglect the start of the school year! And, from what we can see, this fall will be good for comics, with the genre giving us a season of eclecticism.
Dédé
Christian Quesnel
A back-to-school title is likely to spark discussions. The excellent Christian Quesnel (to whom we owe, among other things, the drawings for the albums Mégantic. A train in the night And The oblique city) would have achieved the unthinkable: telling the life of Dédé Fortin in a comic, ensuring the collaboration of those around him without watering down anything so as not to displease anyone. In short, we are promised a work that is honest, sensitive and, from what we have observed having had the chance to lay eyes on a few plates, magnificently drawn. Which is obviously not surprising, since we know that Quesnel is capable of both detail and expressionism. The album will be available a few days before the 61e singer’s birthday. Tell you if we can’t wait!
Free Expression, November 13
The bride
Éléonore Goldberg
Born in France, well established in Montreal after studying visual arts and animated cinema, the author Éléonore Goldbergwho does as much in animation as in comics, tackled, with The brideto a feminist rereading of a classic of Yiddish theater, The dybbuk. The action takes place in the 19the century in a small Jewish town, located in Ukraine, and tells the story of Léa, a young girl in love with a gifted young student, but who was promised by her father to a man she has never met. And, to add another layer, Léa finds herself possessed by a dybbuk, a spirit which manifests itself when someone has committed a bad action. This is a story that piques our curiosity.
General mechanics, October 3
Arthur Leclair, traveling projectionist
Normand Grégoire and Richard Vallerand
Today easily accessible using a mouse or a remote control, the cinema once served as a scientific curiosity which had to be demonstrated by carrying it from town to town, like a circus entertainment which was established a few days, with drums and trumpets! This is what this album tells, which focuses on the life of Arthur Leclair, who, two years after the first public projection of the Lumière brothers in Paris, in 1895, was part of this cohort of itinerant projectionists who had given the mission of presenting films throughout Quebec cities with more than 2000 inhabitants. And, of course, we immediately think of the classic JA Martin, photographer (1977), by Jean Beaudin, who tells a bit of the same thing from the point of view of photography. Written by Norman Grégoireto whom we owe the comic book adaptation of The Little Homeland by Claude Jasmin, the album is illustrated by Richard Vallerandwho signed the drawings ofRed Autumn in 2017.
La Watermelon, September 21
The return of Lagaffe
Delaf
After having borne the brunt of a legal saga now settled, a saga which pitted Isabelle Franquin (daughter of André Franquin, deceased in 1997, creator of the character of Gaston Lagaffe) against Editions Dupuis concerning the right to publish, or not, short stories adventures of Gaston, here is the Quebecois Delaf (Marc Delafontaine, co-creator of the series Les Nombrils) will finally be able to present his version of the most famous lazy blunderer. We are relieved for Delaf, who despite himself found himself at the heart of all this, and we can’t wait to finally be able to see the fruit of his work, entitled The return of Lagaffe.
Dupuis, November 22
Die for the cause
Chris Oliveros
We are also very curious to read, in a signed French translation Alexandre Fontaine Rousseauthe album Die for the causefrom the founder of Drawn & Quarterly editions, Chris Oliveros. This album, which recounts the rise of the FLQ during the 1960s, takes the form of a CBC mockumentary which was apparently lost shortly after its filming in 1975.
Pow Pow, October 11