Riad Sattouf, the successful author of
The Arab of the Future
, a filmmaker in his spare time, puts on with his new series of comics one more cap: that of editor.
The Young Actor 1, Vincent Lacoste's adventures in the cinema
is published by Les Livres du futur ... editions founded by the Franco-Syrian cartoonist.
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Fans of this very popular author, who is expected to sell hundreds of thousands of copies of his 27th comic, will immediately recognize the object.
It is identical to the first five volumes of
L'Arabe du futur
.
“
It was very important for me to start editing with this project, already because Vincent Lacoste was my companion for the first times (...) Today is the first time for me as an editor, and first time for him as an author and comic character!
“, Justifies Riad Sattouf, interviewed by AFP.
"Weird eyes"
The Young Actor
retraces the fate of this ordinary student of a college in the north of Paris who will become an actor, "
revealed by art, transcended by the passion for art
", according to the author and director. It is therefore a newcomer to cinema who spots him to play Hervé, the hero of his first film,
Les Beaux Gosses
, released in 2009. The album delivers the gaze, alternately, of one and the other during their debuts on either side of the camera. Self-mockery is one of the best sources of the story, when, for example, Vincent Lacoste, at the time of the casting, sees the director as “
his gay assistant with glasses
” who “
stared at him with bizarre half-closed eyes
”. Error on the person: it is indeed the director."
I was very fond of times when Vincent did not particularly take tweezers with me.
Already that makes me laugh a lot.
And then it's the game, to talk about each other without sparing each other
”, according to Riad Sattouf.
Other celebrities have made the same choice of publishing their own books.
Two headliners
The Swiss Joël Dicker launches on January 1 Rosie & Wolfe, which is to publish not only this successful novelist, but also other novelists and essayists.
Candidate for the presidential election, Éric Zemmour, after the decision of his editor Albin Michel to stop with him, published in September with his own house, Rubempré, his political newspaper,
La France did not say its last word
.
To read also Éric Zemmour, a "case of conscience" among booksellers
The footballer Kylian Mbappé created KM Editions, to narrate, with the designer Faro, his rise in
Je m'appelle Kylian
.
Released on November 12.
Sattouf, Dicker and Zemmour all rely on the same distribution network, Interforum of the Editis group (Vivendi).
For Mbappé it will be Média Diffusion (Média Participations group).
In any case, the notoriety of the headliner and the know-how of these logisticians ensure a good presence in bookstores.
With Riad Sattouf, there are even two headliners: himself and Vincent Lacoste, now a friend.
“
The idea is to laugh and make a travel journal
,” he says, telling “
the true and incredible story of a teenager who had never made a film, never sought to be famous, and how this slightly soft and neutered teenager, stuck, shy, turned into one of the most requested actors of his generation
”.
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