The Road of Manu Larcenet, darkness in all its splendor. The author of Blast offers a dazzling vision of Cormac McCarthy's postapocalyptic novel.
The designer deploys a realistic drawing supported by a delicate line close to carving. Faithful to the original text, it connects the sequences in a variety of colored grays ensuring the graphic flamboyance required by the story of the novelist who forcefully described desolation. "As The Road is stingy with dialogue, I encourage the reader to decipher the boxes, to linger on the pages, to read drawing as he would read words,” says the designer.