Catch-bubbles

Olé! Attention eyes! The Argentinian draughtsman, Jose Munoz, attack a monument of the French literature. The author in black and white of the data bases the bar with Joe and Carlos Gardel inter alia was charged by the editors Futuropolis and Gallimard to illustrate the foreigner of Albert Camus. The famous novel which had caused the polemic with its publication in 1942, festival this year its 70 years, the age precisely of Jose Munoz. 

Studied with the college and the university, translated into forty languages, adapted to the cinema, inspiring the song of the Cure Killing year Arab Did not miss any more with this work classified among the best of the XXème Century but to find its prolongation in drawing. It is thing made thanks to Jose Munoz who does not transpose the book in data base but illustrates her last edition. The latter which fate today thus includes/understands the complete text from Abroad accompanied by 60 drawings full bichromic page in black, the speciality of the Argentinian draughtsman. Drawings the line precise and with the cold and heavy environment which stick perfectly to the universe from Abroad, Meursault, main character and narrator all at the same time, foreigner with the codes of the world, becomes a true danger, a monster which will kill and will be carried out, alive proof that this world is absurd.

Albert Camus received the Nobel Prize of literature in 1957. Albert Munoz, the Grand Prix of Angouleme 2007. Even if these two distinctions do not box in the same category, to gather them 70 years after the exit of the book with him only a beautiful symbol represents.

The Foreigner of Albert Camus, drawings of Jose Munoz, Futuropolis-Gallimard editions, 144 pages, price: 22 euros.

Original inks of Munoz for the foreigner will be exposed from June 14 until September 14, 2012, with the Martel gallery in Paris.

Where to classify Azimuth? This is a data base of humour, Science Fiction, adventure Or rather an oneiric data base perhaps It is that, Azimut is an album completely oneiric, insane, fantastic, where the imaginary reign as a Master. A very particular universe which one enters initially with a little reserve, but which us cramp then, to plunge us in a true bath of youth and amazement 

This astonishing history whose first volume subtitles the adventurers of wasted time has just left on May 9, except collection at Vents of West, draft of the search of time. Or in the way of escaping from old age and death. More original characters all the ones than the others populate this made fantastic world of kingdoms and improbable palates. One discovers there the count Quentin of Pérue, royal explorer who believes to discover a new world by planting his flag on the beach kingdom that it earlier has in fact left two years. The old scientist, Aristide Breloquinte, specialist in the whims of time. Eugene, the young insane painter of love which wants to be avenged. Or the Major on his funny of flying machine. Accompanied by Sports shirt, a white rabbit which seems left straight of the universe Lewis Caroll, it is in the search of a certain Mania Ganza, robber of crones. And especially sublime Baited it, princess promised with naive and odd king of Ponduche, Irenee the magnanime. The beautiful one proves to be in fact a robber and breaker of heart, without scruples but so delicious and sensual that one wants of all to forgive him. It is it Manie Ganza.

In this world without tail nor head created by the scenario writer Wilfrid Lupano and sublimely put in forms and colors by Jean-Baptiste Andréae, the flying and gigantic fish fail themselves violently on the beach, the kings offer connected giants who should then be stored and épousseter like objets d'art, the judges have two heads and one goes crazy completely. Example of tasty extract, this dialogue between the king and his explorer: North was lost. The compasses became whimsical, each day North is elsewhere - But finally, that does not have a direction - It is well the problem indeed Not badly not? Go ahead one says to you Guaranteed expatriation.

It is without any doubt the data base of the moment. If One night in Rome, appeared in the collection Grand Angle of the Bamboo editions deals with universal subject, the young loves and the nostalgia which they cause with the passing of years, this album does it with infinitely smoothness and a good amount of suspense.

The history will speak the 20 year old to people as to those about 40 and more. In fact with all those which crossed one day the road of this free girl and insolente, semi child wife, semi woman-fatal, this girl whom one was not able to be removed from the head, which made us live a daydream while being interested in us, before becoming our worst nightmare, then, to transform itself into nostalgic memory vagueness hidden under tons of other memories.

 Two days before the birthday of his 40 years, Raphaël, adolescent eternal having found a pretence of sentimental stability only for 18 months with pretty and fair Sophia, has received a video cassette. Time to put the hand on an antique video tape recorder in the neighbor and our friend is discovered at 20 years, the day of its birthday in company of a certain Marie at the same age. This day there, the two tourtereaux ones had been filmed while being promised in front of the camera, though it arrives, to spend the night of their 40 years together A number of portable accompanies the missive.

After having tried to evacuate this go cumbersome, promise of unconscious youth, Raphaël recovers the number which it had torn then the first pages let to us foresee an unhappy end but suspense perspires despite everything as one progresses in the account. One shares the torments of this young future will quadra, pulled about between the reason, to choose the happiness and the peaceful future which are offered finally to him and insane temptation all to drop to launch out in the adventure of disconcerting meeting again. Who of wise Sophia or the sulfurous Marie will carry it? The answer is undoubtedly in the question

In the passing, one discovers superb sights of Paris and Rome under the drawing of Jim to the scenar and the pencil. Images which add to the bicephalous apect this album. A beautiful object whose first cycle is announced in two volumes. One awaits this second divides into volumes impatiently

Better, one cannot prevent oneself from thinking of the cinema by reading the 104 pages of One night in Rome. And precisely, it is that Jim, already author of 80 albums whose 500 ideas for glander with the job and All the defects of the guys, but also under the pseudo one of Téhy, the series Fairy and tender automats and Yiu, is also author of court-measurings the splendid young person and loves for example. And you know what? He prepares, in collaboration with Jacques Malaterre, an adaptation of this last data base There too, one is in a hurry. 

François Holland new president and already put in bubbles. The least which one can say it is that certain the direction of the timing has. The day before the second turn of the presidential election Dargaud announced already the publication of an album entitled Presidential campaign, 200 days in the steps of the candidate François Holland. This signed data base Mathieu Fir tree, to appear next on May 22, reports the way which led the candidate PS to the presidency.

The author is not an unknown. He followed the countryside each week on his blog and in the Libération newspaper. The history begins on October 22, 2011, day of the convention of nomination which officially designated the socialist candidate with the presidential election. It had the authorization to follow the countryside of the interior, while following the staff of the candidate and the candidate himself, with only one condition: nothing to make appear indiscretions which it could see or hear before the D-day. Thanks to him, one enters the slides of the countryside with the réthorique one of off and of one, small arrangements, the tics, the court Between meeting, displacements in province, cabins of television programs, meetings behind closed doors, to the image of a small mouse, as the text of presentation of the editor qualifies it, Mathieu Sapin makes us follow this political adventure of the interior.

Its dream today: in the same way to follow the first steps of Holland to the Elysium. Can be a volume 2?

Presidential campaign with the Dargaud editions. 72 pages. Price: 14,99. Exit the 22 but 2012.

There exist series whose each album saw its own life while giving desire for discovering the preceding continuation or volumes. O' servant boys belongs to those there. It should well be said, when I started to turn the pages of this third and last volume of this first cycle signed Steve Cuzor and Stephan Colman, without to have read the two first, I was on the point of posing the object quickly. And then The magic operated. Little by little, I felt aspired, a little as envoûté by this history with black environment and blues which proceeds in the United States of the Thirties.

One follows Huck the young narrator, a white boy who, in company of sensual Suzy, share in the search of Charley Williams, alias Lucius No Fingers, a black, ace of the guitar, itself in search of glory in the equivocal cabarets of Menphis, but death threat History oscillates constantly between humour (in particular when the manager and the customers of a lost bar draw the language while seeing unloading pretty Suzy in their godforsaken hole), blackness (drug, racism and death plane with length of pages) and hope.

Perhaps this volume 3 heading Midnight Crossroad, left to Dargaud on Friday April 13 will carry happiness to its authors. In any case, promised, as soon as I can, I get the first two volumes. While waiting, one hopes for it all, a second cycle.

Soup of the policy? Between two turns, let us return to essence: the fiction, the true one which makes us travel and dream! And what could be better than a Tarzan good old man revisited to escape? The name is never marked but it is well the hero of our childhood (finally perhaps not of your for young people) which is in the middle of the history presented by Philippe Bonifay with Fabrice Meddour to the drawing.

One finds in the king of the monkeys, published at Vents of West the myth of the wild child who grows in the jungle raised by large monkeys (here of the orang-outangs, i.e. literally wood men in indonésien) before being collected by a sister missionary in the large heart and to finally find his row and his title of nobility in the London company. All is there. Until its name John Arthur Livingstone wink with famous exploring doctor David Linvinstone.  But the account of Philippe Bonifay grows rich by an police investigation. Because a mystery planes around the personality of the young Lord. A killer of prostitutes grinds pointing out curiously Jack the eventror if it is not that this one leaves the body of its victims intact, the stripped chest and the broken nape of the neck

Is the ex wild child become an athlete with the impressive musculature which cannot be prevented from wandering during the night almost naked in the trees this mysterious killer? The author lets plane the doubt, until in the meeting between John and the young person and pretty Alice.

The Lord contains his mask of the two hands, but the animal lets escape its first howlings Bonifay writing. 

Superb drawings, in turn sensual and worrying, according to whether they show the wild life, the scenes of love or the murders and the police investigation, sublimely colorized by Stephan Paitreau, illustrate to perfection the account. Definitely, an adventure not to be missed.

John Arthur Livingstone, Volume 1 the king of the monkeys, Bonifay and Meddour, with the editions Winds of West. Left last on April 18. 13,90 euros.