Catherine Meurisse box
Written in 2008 and 2012, two masterpieces by Catherine Meurisse gathered in a box.
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Catherine Meurisse has no equal when it comes to sharpening our minds with humor.
Hilarious, two nuggets of the designer are gathered in a collector's box.
Readers will be delighted with a tasty and burlesque version of the history of French literature with
Mes Hommes de Lettres
, embellished with a moving preface by Cavanna.
Montaigne in the middle of a (hilarious) therapy session, Gustave Flaubert chanting the slogan dear to the CGT "
All together, all together ...
", Proust superstar thanks to his madeleine ... Catherine Meurisse revisits great men with a very personal vision of letters.
With
Le pont des arts
, readers will delight in the restless friendships between painters and writers.
The guided tour of Baudelaire in a Parisian museum which will allow them to distinguish "
the masterpiece of a big crust
" is worth the detour in itself.
Some will pay the price, like Jean-Léon Gérôme and his painting
Combat de coqs:
“
De la peinture en cul-de-poule!”.
The work will also recall the theft of
La Joconde
from the Louvre in 1911
,
which will inspire a poem by Apollinaire, suspected with Pablo Picasso, of having commissioned it.
Two irreverent works that combine erudition, humor ... and pleasure.
Blowgun editions, 39.80 euros
Juillard, Secret Notebooks 2004-2020
Female nudes to the glory of all women, drawings inspired by great masters of painting, photography or his fellows ... André Juillard / Daniel Maghen
The gallery owner Daniel Maghen has unearthed a real treasure with the secret notebooks of André Juillard, the designer of the famous historical saga
Les 7 vies de L'épervier
or the
Cahier bleu
.
Gathered in a sumptuous volume of more than 400 pages, these pearls, made according to the author's wishes for 20 years, illustrate an immense talent.
Landscapes borrowed from serenity, feminine nudes to the glory of all women, drawings inspired by the great masters of painting, photography or their congeners ... Each drawing, sketch or sketch is an invitation to travel where pleasure is found. intertwines with dreams and poetry.
All enhanced by a print quality perfectly rendering the original appearance of the notebooks.
A pure wonder.
Éditions Daniel Maghen, 59 euros
.
Vernon Subutex
, adaptation of the romantic trilogy by Luz and Virginie Despentes
Vernon Subutex designed by Luz.
Luz / Albin Michel
Explosion of graphics and colors, daring composition freed from the shackles of the box ... The author of
Indélébiles
has spared no efforts in the breathtaking adaptation of Vernon Subutex, the trilogy of Virginie Despentes featuring a record store Homeless man who walks the streets of Paris looking for a place to sleep.
Mixing humor, celebration of the unifying virtues of music, mysticism or the unalterable force of memory, the book, rich in 300 pages, traces a dense journey, close to
“the Homeric epic”
in the words of the author.
An enchantment.
Editions Albin Michel, 29.90 euros.
Perramus, the city and oblivion
"Perramus
was a cry of indignation, a cry of revolt
", declared about the fresco, Alberto Breccia, who died in 1993. Alberto Breccia & Juan Sasturain / Futuropolis
Unavailable for years, this monument of the ninth art, signed in the 1980s by Argentines Juan Sasturain in the screenplay and by the master Alberto Breccia in the drawing, returns in the form of a superb complete.
This fresco, of nearly 500 pages, evokes the military dictatorship which prevailed in Argentina from 1976 to 1983. It depicts Perramus, a man who has decided to sink into oblivion to survive his cowardice.
The man indeed abandoned his rebel companions who were massacred.
Without memory, he will then travel the world in search of identity.
In the course of his dark peregrinations, he meets the "nigga" Canelones, the aviator stranded on an island, the Enemy and ... Jorge Luis Borges.
They then become the companions of a tale of adventures punctuated in particular by violence, corpses, marshals with death's heads, revolts repressed in blood.
Carried out in a wash wash, Alberto Breccia's expressionist line enhances a fascinating story in which tragedy and grotesque mingle.
To discover or reread absolutely.
Futuropolis editions, 45 euros.
The panther's speech
A very beautiful object with unusual dimensions: 25.4 x 34.4 cm.
Jérémie Moreau / 2024 editions
In
Hartlepool's The Monkey
, scripted by Wilfrid Lupano, Jérémie Moreau portrayed a poor animal confronted with human stupidity.
Eight years later, men have disappeared in favor of beasts, the sole protagonists
of the Panther's Speech
.
Divided into discretely interconnected independent chapters, this large book (25.4 x 34.4 cm!) With shimmering colors tells the existential questions of a Komodo dragon victim of his hunting instinct, of a baby elephant crushed by its responsibility to “Memory of the world” or of a hermit crab in search of a home.
What if animal consciousness could enrich ours?
After winning the Fauve d'Or in Angoulême in 2018 with
La Saga de Grimr
, Jérémie Moreau continues his philosophical exploration begun in
Penss et les plis du monde
, the celebration of nature always in the background.
Editions 2024, 26.90 euros.
Comic book science fiction story
The book encourages the discovery of many essential films, series and comics.
Xavier Dollo & Djibril Morissette-Phan / Éditions Critic & Les Humanoïdes associés
Writer, publisher and former bookseller Xavier Dollo joined forces with cartoonist Djibril Morissette-Phan to design a
Comic Book History of Science Fiction
.
Erudite but playful and multifaceted in its narration, the comic book stages imaginary discussions between authors and publishers to recount the literary, political and economic context of the times crossed.
Affordable for neophytes, fascinating for amateurs, this book full of bibliographical references achieves its main objective: to make people want to (re) discover the famous or forgotten writers who have inspired so many of our contemporaries.
Éditions Critic & Les Humanoïdes associés, 22 euros.
The Arab of the Future, Volume 5, Youth in the Middle East (1992-1994)
In the fifth volume of
L'Arabe du futur
, the author evokes his emancipation through artistic expression.
Riad Sattouf / Allary Editions
In the new and penultimate part of this incredible autobiographical saga
L'Arab du Futur,
Riad Sattouf looks back on his adolescence marked by the crime of his father.
A drama that he approaches modestly and always with as much humor.
At the end of the fourth volume, we left the family struck by the news of the kidnapping of Riad's youngest brother, by his father.
While his mother struggles to recover the five-year-old child taken to Syria, Riad takes refuge in his world.
He then opened up to the horrific readings of Lovecraft or to the spiritualism of Allan Kardec while continuing to exercise his art of drawing, thanks to which he managed to be respected, at least to survive.
Allary éditions, 22.90 euros.
Rhapsody in blue
The young Andrea Serio offers a subtle story of great graphic power.
Andrea Serio / Futuropolis
Italian Jewish youth in the days of fascism is at the heart of this sublime album produced by the young Andrea Serio.
Freely adapted from the novel by Silvia Cuttin, never translated in France, the book invites the reader to share the tribulations of Andrea Goldstein, a young Jewish boy from Trieste exiled in America after the proclamation, in 1938, of the racial laws imposed by the regime. fascist.
From then on named Andrew, the uprooted man, haunted by his demons, will try to find a normal life despite everything, before returning to Italy in the GI uniform This story, based on a true story, is superbly highlighted by the clean line of the designer.
A tasty mix of different techniques, between pastel, grease pencil and layers of gouache, offers an album of great graphic and narrative power.
Futuropolis editions, 21 euros.
Julius Corentin Acquefacques, volume 7, L'Hyperrêve
In
L'Hyperrêve
, the hero must have "dreamed too hard" (as Bashung would say) because he finds himself immersed in an infinite dimension ... Marc-Antoine Mathieu / Delcourt
Since the publication 30 years ago of
L'Origine
, a masterpiece of dreamlike comics, Marc-Antoine Mathieu's universe has been bathed in dreams, absurdity and sparks of genius.
To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of his favorite character Julius Corentin Acquefacques, prisoner of dreams, the author is publishing a seventh volume in which he explores, once again, the thousand and one narrative possibilities of a comic book album ... in 2D and in 3D.
Situated between the fantasy of a
Little Nemo
and the non-sensual logic of Monty Python, the author this time takes his hero on an even more delirious adventure.
The principle is simple, Julius and his neighbor Hilarion "dreamed too hard" thus making a nice allusion to the words of one of the most beautiful songs of Alain Bashung,
Vertige of love
.
Thus begins a new odyssey in absurdity where our heroes will have to rub shoulders with ... infinity.
Éditions Delcourt, 17.95 euros.
We must shoot Ramirez, act 2
With his strong fetish for vintage vacuum cleaners, Nicolas Petrimaux dusted off the comic book thriller.
Nicolas Petrimaux / Glénat Publishing
Published two years ago, the first volume of
Il Must Flinguer Ramirez
, a comic book by Nicolas Petrimaux had already seriously shaken the coconut palm of the 9th art.
But where did this album come from, in the form of a crazy tribute to the 1980s and its cohort of testosterone pop action cinema references?
Mischievously evoking the title of Sam Pekinpah's film
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia
, the plot of this wacky, humorous thriller featured a Mexican cartel in the footsteps of a legendary elusive hitman .
By an unexpected coincidence, a certain Jacques Ramirez, a silent forty-something expert in vacuum cleaners at Robotop, found himself at the center of a manhunt of explosive violence.
In this second volume, we get to know better the main antagonist Ramon Perez who plays the exterminating angels wherever he goes, launched in pursuit of the same Ramirez ... The graphics of Nicolas Petrimaux are impressive, the pace always sustained, the many twists and turns ... The author proves that he can make something new with old by passing it through the mill of his unbridled imagination.
With his strong fetish for vintage vacuum cleaners, the author dusted off the thriller in comics.
Glénat edition, € 22.95.