Women’s bodies

It’s not a new thing, but it’s still a real trend this fall: autobiographical stories written by women also tell their stories in comics.

What Clothilde Delacroix, Pauline Aubry, Alix Garin and Aude Mermilliod have in common: talking about oneself and one’s traumas. And doing so with great gentleness, even when the suffering is profound.

In Archaeology of the intimate, Clothilde Delacroix, with a light stroke and in pastel colors, recalls the anxieties of her difficult pregnancy: prolonged hospitalization, premature delivery by caesarean section, intensive care. She seeks in this painful journey the origin of the relationship she maintains today with her daughter born prematurely.

Clothilde Delacroix, Archaeology of the intimate published by Dupuis.

On the back cover it says: “It’s the story of Prince Charming, who one day loses his cool and decides to run away. It’s the story of the Princess who didn’t see it coming.”. Everything has been said and yet Pauline Aubry will need more than 200 pages and thousands of drawings to describe in detail the different episodes of this mourning of love. From shock to liberation, through denial, anger, sadness, acceptance and reconstruction.

Pauline Aubry, Such a great love, story of a breakup is published by Arènes BD.

The next one, Alix Garin is also the youngest. She is 27 years old when the two previous ones are already forty years old. In ImpenetrableAlix Garin literally bares all. To tell without vain modesty – it’s very blunt – how she suffered from vaginismus for two years. Impossible for her to make love without suffering martyrdom. From gynecologists to psychologists, a real way of the cross. She will have to return to a distant trauma. But all’s well that ends well.

Alix Garin, Impenetrable published by Lombard.

Aude Mermilliod, 38, had already told the story in I had to tell you her experience of abortion. This time, she shares her sexual journey, made of desires and sadness, pleasures and refusals, men and women, jealousy overcome and serenity finally found. 250 pages to burst the abscess of an original trauma, when she had said no and he had moved on.

Aude Mermilliod, To hatchpublished by Casterman.