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“My name is Etienne, and i’m an alcoholic”. Thoose words are the firts words of this graphic novel. In fact, this is an autobiography and it gives a real power to the story. In another life, Etienne Schréder, was a civil servant, recorder in a prison. In the soft spiral of alcohol (yes, it does exist !), with its obliged stations : pubs, friends, homeless persons…This is absurd, incoherent…this is a purgatory !
For such scenario, you have to be courageous : sharped angle shots in black and white make the hero a real “shivering shadow” dismembermented. The moral is somewhere between fatalism and hope because, a night in winter 1984, Etienne stoped drinking. But we don’t know the reason, maybe a piece dignity. But all thoose events brougth us a new talented author.
Classé dans : Comic books
This comic concentrates qualities of 3 authors. This comic testifies a realism without moralism by drawings and sketches.
The scenario of Denis is about the main character, somebody who wan the lotto, and his relationships with his sweetheart. His obsessive fear is to lose the ticket, and this fear turns into a real nightmare.
Men look like more fragile than women. But faced to this question, the answer can be given by the psychosociologists. And the judgment is yours…
L’oeil était dans la tombe, Christian De Metter
French comic books could be very unhealthy. Christian De Metter shows us a surprising face of a dream world. Sex, murders, alcohol…all is used to take the reader in a black world where a serial killer commits murders after murders.
The hero, who is more like an antihero, leads an ordinary life swatted by the others. The plot is montrously strictness and unconscionable stressful. The investigator meets a young blind boy, who is more “lucid” than normal persons.
But the pictures are very well drawed. The colors, in the majority black and green, are very effective.
In conclusion, pictures and scenario meddle each other giving us 72 pages of pure thrill !
