With this learning story, which sees a hitherto timid English teenager go in search of his father, Martin Panchaud, born in 1982 in Geneva, sets himself a challenge: “My bias is to tell a story without showing faces or bodies. I reduced all the characters into colored circles. There is a somewhat magical effect which is that, when these two named forms communicate, they come to life. The imagination of the spectator-reader does the work of putting a voice and a body“.
A process that stimulated the creativity of this author and illustrator, a bit like card reading codes like in a video game: “At the beginning, we say to ourselves: ‘it’s going to be a very complicated adventure’. But after a few pages, we enter the story […] As it is a fairly new approach, the story must be fluid and the narration smooth, without misunderstandings.“.
Originally published in German in 2020, The Color of Things won numerous awards in Switzerland and Germany. Then the publication in French became a phenomenon and was welcomed by this Fauve Comics Prize in Angoulêmeequivalent to the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
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