“New York Cannibals”, bloody dive in the Upper East Side area

The French designer François Boucq and the American writer Jerome Charyn project the characters of “Little Tulip” (2014) in the heart of the underworld New York of the 90s. A wild and harsh stroll through the murky neighborhoods of a degraded and populated Big Apple of freaks, commented by the artist.

The tandem of New York writer Jerome Charyn and French designer François Boucq is a story that lasts. Since The Magician’s Wife, their first album, in 1986, the two authors met five times. Without being strictly speaking a series of Little Tulip, released in 2014, New York Cannibals, their new baby, summons the same characters, but fifteen years later: Pavel, the tattoo artist who survived the Siberian prison camps, Anna, his first love, and Azumi, the little girl of Japanese origin who became a shock police sergeant … A bitter and bloody thriller, where François Boucq camps incredible trognes between Freaks and Balzac! To definitively end this Siberian-New York trilogy, the two men are already working on a final part with the same protagonists which, this time, will take place today.

A new Nativity

“This alley chase is almost a new Nativity. Tormented by the desire to be a mother, Azumi has just learned that she will probably never be able to have children. To gain muscle mass, this bodybuilding follower indeed consumes steroids in high doses. And there, by the operation of the Holy Ghost, this almost virgin woman finds a newborn baby in a trash can. Azumi is a strange character, half man, half woman. His overdeveloped body is covered with very symbolic tattoos, the sun and the moon, the radiance and the interiority which reveal all the complexity of his hermaphroditism. There is this box on a white background in the middle of the board where nothing exists except the meeting. Suddenly a bond is created between the baby and her, in the same movement each of the two stretches out his arms towards the other, it is an election, a surge of love.

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