From January to May 2022, France Bleu launches its second edition of the Prix de la BD France Bleu. In collaboration with ActuaBD, the 10 selected albums highlight young talents in Youth/Ado comics. Every month, France Bleu presents two works to you. Here is the January premiere.
In January, the first selected album is …
Lost Letters by Jim Bishop – published by Glénat
– RF
Lost Letters takes you on the incredible adventures of Iode in search of her mother. A first graphic novel directed by a true artist nurtured by the work of Hayao Miyazaki. A story where the roundness of the drawing and the radiant beauty of the colors contrast with the tragic story.
Like every morning, Iode waits impatiently for this letter that the postman is slow to bring. Surely a joke of this clownfish prankster who likes to deliver his mail to the neighbors… Or maybe he just got lost? There’s only one way to find out for sure: get to town. Embarked in his little apple green car, Iode meets Sis, a hitchhiker with a strong character who makes a delivery for the mysterious mafia group “the octopus ». Only, when the latter decides to give him the slip, the young boy gets worried and naively decides to go looking for him. Without knowing it, Iode has just set foot in a case that will place him at the heart of a terrible tragedy.
◊ Julien Bicheux, known as Jim Bishop, was born in 1985 in Seine Saint-Denis. Following a professional retraining, he embarked on comics and in 2015 published his first album Nubo, le guardian cloud (Editions Bonstre). We find him in 2017 in the script of the humorous series Jill & Sherlock (Ankama Éditions).
Jim presents us with a lot of mischief the behind the scenes of Lettres perdus, his first comic strip at Glénat.