A tale around conspiracy, a melancholic vacation in New York, a journey into alter-globalization, an experience alone in the Far North. Here are our comic recs of the week.
King Medusa
A conspiratorial father, his young son, a house progressively cut off from the world. The framework is simple. It’s forgetting that Brecht Evens, star of indie comics, is in charge. The Dutch-speaking Belgian author weaves a phantasmagorical atmosphere which envelops the story of the father’s radicalization to tell it from a child’s perspective. The world then appears under the distorting prism of the education received by the little boy and his unbridled imagination. The simplest scenes (like a gas leak) immediately take on a magical feel and take us to another dimension. With this large permanent gap between the impression of living an XXL adventure story while reading a terribly realistic fable on the mechanisms of control. Faced with this swarm of details, where the meaning of each image seems to be recomposed endlessly, we detect in the choice of this or that technique (watercolor, gouache, marker, etc.) all the meticulousness with which the cartoonist brings each idea to life . Looking forward to the second part in the fall! If Brecht Evens had received the Special Jury Prize in Angoulême in 2019 for The Laughs, we would not be surprised if this King Medusa leads him to the Golden Fauve…
King Medusa (part one), by Brech Evens. Actes Sud, 288 pages, 32 euros.
New York, New York
Three friends go to New York to spend vacation together. But don’t you[…]
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2024-01-19 14:14:10
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