Prize for best album at the Angoulême Comic Strip Festival, winner of the Fauve d’Or, L’Accident de Chasse, published by Sonatine, is an extraordinary graphic novel.
This 466-page work tells us the true story of Matt Rizzo, his blindness, his imprisonment and his meeting with a fellow inmate, Nathan Leopold, a notorious criminal who opens the way to redemption through writing and language. . The novel takes us to historic Chicago from the 1950s, in the Little Italy neighborhood. Charlie Rizzo, who has just lost his mother, has to move in with his blind father. For the young boy, no doubt, Matt Rizzo lost his sight as a result of a hunting accident, as he always told him. But the day a policeman rings their doorbell, Matt chooses to reveal to his son the submerged part of his past, and the real reason for his blindness, an armed robbery he committed years earlier, when ‘he was dating the Chicago Mafia.
“It took me two years to write this novel”
This story of salvation, served by a line that invites us into darkness the better to bring us back to the light, is a true love song dedicated to poetry and humanity. A strong reading, from which we do not come out unscathed. A text in drawer written by David L. Carlson, friend of Charlie Rizzo. He was the guest of the La Femme Renard bookstore, along with co-author and designer Landis Blair. They presented their graphic novel at a signing session. “It took me two years to write this novel which required a lot of research. The simplicity of the illustration has a vintage side, the blackness of the line confronts us with mortality. At the moment I am writing a booklet to create a Broadway musical, the rights have been sold to Paramount for a movie or TV movie. We’re working on a new project with Landis. ” The book is available at the La Femme Renard bookstore.
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