“The last sergeant”, Fabrice Neaud

Twenty years after the publication of the fourth volume of his Newspaper, Fabrice Neaud finally extends his incomparable autobiographical works. In this first volume of a new cycle, a 424-page black and white plot whose action takes place between 1998 and 2002, we find unaltered the unique outlook of the French cartoonist born in 1968: melancholy mixed with anguish, inexhaustible need for affection, fine sociological analyses, persistent self-loathing and anger always ready to boil over. Even more than the emotional setbacks of the hero, a thirty-year-old homosexual from the provinces, these drawn (but also very written) memoirs depict mourning in various forms, both intimate and collective. With disarming honesty, and the appreciable hindsight of the years, the narrator describes, embracing the tragic as well as the anecdotal, the states to which the disappearance of loved ones, the distance from friends, the disappearance of professional dreams, the decay of the body and the failure of love. The drawing, more careful, but also more sensitive, more evocative than ever, sketches everyday life with rare acuity, provoking strong emotions.

The Last Sergeant, Volume 1. The Immobile Wars

★★★★

Fabrice Neaud, Delcourt, Paris, 2023, 424 pages

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