Before Marco bluecomic book by novelist and playwright Larry Tremblay and illustrator Julien Castanié (Me, it’s Tantalus!by André Marois, De L’Isatis), there was the play for puppets, created in 2019 by the Théâtre de l’Oeil, which was the very free adaptation of Not even true, children’s album illustrated by Guillaume Perreault, published three years earlier in La Bagnole. In all three cases, the story imagined by Larry Tremblay has as its starting point the arrival of a little sister who shakes up the daily life of a seven-and-a-half-year-old boy, here from a mixed family, and who has imagination to spare. Crazy getaway in the stars evoking The little Princeof Saint-Exupéry, Marco blue turns out to be a tender, playful and philosophical reflection on otherness, the feeling of belonging and the construction of the self. By his way of using primary colors, Julien Castanié effectively translates the evolution of the character in this story where the absurd rubs shoulders with poetry.
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