A fabulous quest by Fabrizio Dori
Amazed by The divine scenario (produced with Jacky Beneteaud), it was with great curiosity that we opened Fabrizio Dori’s new album. Pan’s son is another “ancient comedy”: we follow Eustis, who must help the son of Pan to find his name and his specialty in the margins of the real world, where humans have relegated the divinities since the advent of monotheism and, even more , of the consumer society. Full of wit and color, this incredible adventure is also magnificently directed by Fabrizio Dori, who draws as much from ancient as contemporary art, multiplying the winks (the series Twin Peaks by David Lynch, the abstract art of Piet Mondrian, etc.). Another crazy story that may end up among my favorites of the year.
Pan’s son
Blowgun
224 pages
A nice trip “to Canada”
After the friendly, but anecdotal Under the pebbles, the beachthe prolific Pascal Rabaté puts his touch on a story by François Ravard which takes place… in Quebec. The law of probability tells the story of the “trip to Canada” of Martin Henry, a Frenchman who dreamed of seeing the whales of the St. Lawrence and decides to make his wish come true when he learns that he only has three months to live. The story is light, the tone is comedic, and Rabaté’s drawing, all in finesse and dressed in a palette of cold blue, is so expressive that we immediately become attached to the characters and to this sometimes incredible story with a romantic finale.
The law of probability
Futuropolis
86 pages
Transcend grief
Designer and scenographer, François Schuiten remains, for many readers, the creator of images of Obscure citiesfantastic series co-directed with Benoît Peeters. Jimmy has nothing to do with all that. It is the all too true story of a loss, that of his dog, and of an artist who, by producing a drawing of his faithful companion every day, tries to ease his pain. We don’t know if her tears have completely dried up, but her little book is a gem of poetry that transcends her experience, or even the loss of a pet, to tell the story of mourning with infinite tenderness.
Jimmy
Rue de Sèvres
126 pages
Little sad music
The artist Éléonore Goldberg, born in France and based in Montreal, offers with The bride his very personal rereading of a classic of Yiddish theater called The dybbuk, apparently considered the Romeo and Juliet of Eastern European Jewish literature. It features a grieving young woman who is advised to read the famous play to get through a heartbreak. She is not convinced at first: how can a story which tells of the sad loves of a young woman forced to marry a man she does not love and who, on her wedding day, turns out to be possessed by a Could a wandering soul, the famous “dybbuk”, console her? The bride speaks as much about rebellion as about transmission, since by embedding the two stories – one contemporary, the other traditional – the author bridges two visions of the world and reconnects her character to a part of herself . She also does it with the help of an expressive drawing, of the order of refined sketches, rendered in a very appropriate bluish black (or very dark blue) ink.
The bride
General mechanic
312 pages.