Christmas 2022: Which comic(s) to offer, read, or have people read?

“The Last Queen” by Jean-Marc Rochette (Casterman): a love story in the Vercors

After Ailefroide and The wolf, Jean-Marc Rochette closes his mountain trilogy with this story of broken faces from 1914. His hero, Édouard Roux, the aptly named (given his red hair) finds refuge in Jeanne Sauvage’s studio. This animal sculptor gives him a face, and introduces him to the circle of artists in Montmartre. He introduces him to nature, animals and the mountains of the Vercors. The beginning of a splendid love story…

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Jean-Marc Rochette guest of Totemic

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Two great reasons to read the last queen by Jean-Marc Rochette

“The little brother” by Jean-Louis Tripp (Casterman): the death of a brother

In 1976, the car that hit Gilles fled. Time is suspended. Gilles will die in the hospital in the evening, with the added bonus of the awkward words of the medical profession. Jean-Louis Tripp, his brother, draws everything, in black and white, sometimes with touches of red and blue. His line is round, realistic in boxes that are so many portraits of pain. “You don’t die in the middle of summer vacation when you’re 11” writes Jean-Louis Tripp in a bubble. A work of great sensitivity.

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The little brother in comic speech bubbles

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The little brothera heartbreaking mourning accurately told

🎥 WATCH | How to draw The little brotherJeanLouis Tripp’s drawing lesson:

“Céleste” by Chloé Cruchaudet (Soleil): when admiration takes the place of life by proxy

The wife of Marcel Proust’s chauffeur doesn’t know how to do anything, and isn’t interested in much. The writer suggests that she take care of her mail… This is how Céleste Albaret entered the service of the author of In Search of Lost Time… Through the course of the servant, the book puts the projector behind the scenes of literary creation. These eight years spent alongside

the writer were no picnic. Céleste lived cloistered in a dusty and austere atmosphere, and complied with all her wishes. But she assured to live, through the life of Marcel Proust, an exceptional adventure.

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Celestial by Chloé Cruchaudet, in the shadow of Marcel Proust

🎥 WATCH | How to draw Celestial ? Chloé Cruchaudet’s drawing lesson

“The young actor” (Books of the future): Vincent Lacoste’s film debut in “Les beaux gosses” by Riad Sattouf

He started out as a pimply teenager in a hilarious film and became a big name in French cinema. After “The Arab of the Future” and “Les Cahiers d’Esther”, the designer and director Riad Sattouf publishes a comic strip on the actor’s film debut in “Les beaux gosses”. Read also: the masterful conclusion of The Arab of the future.

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Riad Sattouf: “In The young actorwith Vincent Lacoste, I show that destiny does not exist”

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Vincent Lacoste and Riad Sattouf in The original band

🎥 WATCH | How to draw Vincent Lacoste in The young actorRiad Sattouf’s drawing lesson

“Ginette” (BD ass), the funny porn of Florence Cestac

Florence Cestac (“Harry Mickson”, “Les Déblok”, “Le Démon de midi”…) publishes the humorous story of a prostitute in the famous BD cul collection. A earthy tale fed on the slang of thrillers from the 1950s and 1960s.

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Ginette : the crook in the retro

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Ginette : Florence Cestac’s first pornographic comic strip

🎥 WATCH | In Florence Cestac’s studio

“Kiss the Sky” by Dupont & Mezzo (Glénat): magnificent black and white biography of Jimmy Hendrix

Hailing from a poor and dysfunctional family in Seattle, Jimi Hendrix had a tough youth before becoming a brilliant guitarist. Young alcoholic woman preferring men to the education of her children, her mother is often absent, when the father, Al, navigates between odd jobs and is violent. Jimi discovers rock and blues as a teenager: this universe fascinates him, and he manages to get a guitar. He performed with local groups then, after an interlude in the army, went on tour with multiple groups – Curtis Mayfield, the Islay Brothers, Little Richard…

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Dupont & Mezzo, guests of club side

“La Bibliomule de Cordoue” by Lupano and Chemineau (Dargaud): saving knowledge

Year 976, the Caliphate of Al Andalus in Spain lives in an atmosphere of peace and culture. Caliph Abd el-Rahman III and his son al-Hakam II made Cordoba the western capital of knowledge. But al-Hakam II dies young, and his son, a child, finds himself under the tutorship of a vizier without legitimacy, Amir. The latter has a great thirst for power and allies whose obscurantism is matched only by the desire to take revenge on this enlightened power… They want to see the 400,000 books of the Cordoba library burn.

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The Library of Cordoba by Lupano and Chemineau

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Comic speech bubbles with The bibliomule of Cordoba

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Embark on the Bibliomula of Cordoba

🎥 WATCH | How to draw The Library of CordobaChemineau’s drawing lesson:

“The secret of superhuman strength” (Denoël graphic) by Alison Bechdel: the story of a relationship to the body

Alison Bechdel, the gifted American nerd who made her family history and her homosexuality the subject of her previous comics, follows in the footsteps of her obsession with sport. The designer is an exercise freak. But she has her reasons… This comic strip tells the romantic, artistic, spiritual and sporting journey that led her to be the woman of today: an artist who feels good about herself, who knows herself well, and who knows what she wants… Exciting.

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The secret of superhuman strength in comic speech bubbles

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Alison Bechdel: “Drawing is an obsessive behavior to keep track of my life”

“Les Pizzlys” by Jérémie Moreau (Delcourt): back to earth

Fauve d’or for the best album in 2018 for Grimr’s Saga, Jérémie Moreau has since paved his way. His comics tell about men and nature. With “Les Pizzlys”, he explores the 21st century and its contradictions. This comic is a fable that many dreamed of at the end of confinement but that few ultimately realized: a return to real life in the great outdoors, far from the city and its infernal paces…

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The Pizzlys in Comic Bubbles

“The weight of heroes” by David Sala (Casterman): family balance sheet

At the Sala in the 1970s, we listened to Ferré, Brel, Brassens. Amid the flamboyant colors of the time, David Sala recounts his childhood and the figures that made him a man. Among them, his maternal grandfather, who had to flee Franco’s Spain and spent 4 years in Mathaüsen… What remains of the grandparents, of the parents who made you? David Sala brilliantly questions his family in drawing.

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The weight of heroes in Comic Bubbles

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