Journalists will not be the only ones to cover the presidential election: six cartoonists will follow several candidates as closely as possible and will publish their “
report
” just after the second round.
Carnets de Campagne
, co-edited by Dargaud and Le Seuil, is an ambitious project in several respects: 240 pages, a very long format for a comic strip, a publication within a short timeframe, on May 13, and a "
collective
" of authors. disparate priori.
Read also Mathieu Sapin, the alliance of comics and politics
He is led by Mathieu Sapin, used to the genre after having followed two presidents, François Hollande in
Le Château: a year behind the scenes at the Élysée
(2015) and Emmanuel Macron in
Comédie française: voyages in the antechamber of power
(2020 ).
“
The originality is to have these different voices that will make a single story: concerted story, which advances chronologically, not the superposition of six stories.
By telling the highlights
, ”the cartoonist told AFP.
The outgoing president will follow him again.
Read also Behind the scenes of the Hollande presidency told in a comic
For her part, Lara (the pseudonym of a man, who draws in
Le Canard enchaîné
) will stick to the basques of Jean-Luc Mélenchon of La France insoumise.
“
We are like journalists: we would like to be in the box where the candidate puts on his jacket just before going on stage.
But seats are expensive!
"Before adding:"
The advantage of drawing, compared to a journalist who absolutely has to report an image, is that we can tell differently: why we missed a decisive moment, or our astonishment when things get out of hand.
"
This is the case of Morgan Navarro, in charge of the two far-right candidates, Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour.
He was present at the meeting of the latter at the beginning of December in Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis), scene of violence.
Fair
play
journalists
“
There I saw that I was not a journalist.
BFMTV
, they rushed to where it was happening, to get the footage. I said to myself: ooh there ... And I moved away
, ”testifies the one who signed a fiction on this campaign of 2022 with Cyril Hanouna as a candidate (
the President
). Contact with the entourage of these two rivals is for the moment difficult to establish: “
There is mistrust. For them, comic book author, I must be the
Charlie Hebdo type
, where politicians are used to being ugly
”. On the left, Louison was assigned to the socialist Anne Hidalgo, and the youth author Dorothée de Monfreid to the ecologist Yannick Jadot. The second, which "
lands in this world
", Feels"
very well received.
I went to Bordeaux where, at the end of the day, he was giving a lecture at Sciences Po. I was ideally placed, I was able to eat everything
”.
"
Journalists are also fair to us
," said Lara.
“
Especially if we draw them!
", Notes Louison, who had mentioned the end of the Holland five-year term in"
Dear François
"(2017).
What reassures everyone is that it will appear after the election
Mathieu Sapin
Another designer to have already frequented the political world, Kokopello (
Palais Bourbon
, 2021) follows in the footsteps of Valérie Pécresse (Les Républicains). “
We are going to draw behind the scenes, the entire ecosystem of candidates. I was lucky with the primary, because not all LR candidates were as open to this idea as she is. I have wide access
, ”he promises. "
What reassures everyone is that it will appear after the election
," said Mathieu Sapin.
Until then, there will be sleepless nights to complete the project: 240 pages at all costs, which will undoubtedly require to sacrifice a few drawings, a few anecdotes.
"
The pagination is fixed because with
the current shortage
, if the paper was not already ordered, the book could not be printed
", according to the editor of Dargaud, Pauline Mermet.