From Nina Simone’s chewing gum to Céline’s ball
Biographies sometimes take funny perspectives with Warren Ellis, Christophe Malavoy. And all our good reading tracks!
Australian Warren Ellis grabbed Nina Simone’s chewing gum during a 1999 gig at the Meltdown Festival conducted by Nick Cave that year. Quite a poem!
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Test This chewing gum sticks to the memories of Warren Ellis since 1999. Recovered in a towel during a concert of Nina Simone, torn from his piano, cherished treasure of dry saliva, of evaporated spirit. A lover of ghosts, like his old accomplice Nick Cave, the Australian tears his fetish from limbo, mixes his intimate juices with it, even molds the pink dumpling into gold and silver jewellery.
The small piece of pink material also becomes the symbol of a transmission, of a reflection that derives from the power of objects or the spirituality of art. Warren Ellis then becomes a philosopher-musician who dawdles between notes, eras, beings. In these confidences often arises Nick Caveaccomplice of these dreamy ramblings.
American jazz singer Nina Simone in concert. Warren Ellis grabbed his chewing gum, snatching it from his piano…
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A trashy transmission thus materializes, inimitable in these “Bad Seeds”, bad seeds that are still growing. Thus the profits drawn from this small piece of gum chewed formerly finance from now on an animal Ellis Park. The idea was born from the frequentation of “The Snow Leopard”narrated by Vincent Munier and Sylvain Tesson, whose soundtrack Nick and Warren sign.KEY
“Nina Simone’s Chewing Gum”
Warren Ellis
Ed. Round table, 224 p.
Christophe Malavoy revisits the world of Céline
Christophe Malavoy maintains an old passion for the writer Céline, which he recounts in a first-person biographer. The second volume, the last years in Meudon, has just been released.
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Test Céline resurfaces through the publication of unpublished, “War” or “London”. But for ten years now, Christophe Malavoy has been proclaiming: “Not even dead!” The actor had already produced the brilliant screenplay of “Dr. Destouches’ run” for the brothers Brizzi at Futuropolis editions, the enthusiast once again proves his loyalty to his work with a biographical saga illustrated with the dark inks of José Corréa.
“La cavale du Dr Destouches” already gave a version of Céline as a fugitive doctor back home. Christophe Malavoy resumes this period in a new volume illustrated by the watercolors of José Corréa.
FUTUROPOLIS/DR
After “The dark years”, the accursed writer moved to Meudon in 1951, died there in 1961. Novels, letters, etc. illuminate “the watchman of an endless night”. Eternal object of controversy, the author is visited by his followers, Arletty or Michel Simon. Like any writer, he fights with his publisher, “Gallimard my ass, this pharaoh of literary prizes”.
These epic battles are followed by other intimate storms. “No matter how much I do, no matter how much I say… I will always be the awful jojo, the infrequent, the anti-Semite, the hater…” A magnificent text.KEY
“The misanthrope of Meudon”
Malavoy-Correa
Ed. of The Observatory, 224 p.
Nob buys eight covers for ‘Dad’
One of the eight covers of the new “Dad”: the papa poule is dressed up as Super Mario.
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When an author can afford eight different covers for a new album, it’s because his series is one of the must-haves of the moment. This is the case of Bruno Chevrier, alias Nob, with “Dad”, 800,000 copies sold of the gags of this father hen born in 2013 in the newspaper “Spirou”. Almost ten years after its creation, this single father who struggles to raise his four daughters from four different mothers, is faced with the departure of his three eldest.
The occasion of a nasty blow of blues? Not sure, because the youngest, Bérénice and the dog Mouf still give him a lot of trouble. To discover in the irresistible “Papa pop”, a ninth volume which appears while the happy blended family invented by Nob invades the small screen in the form of cartoons, broadcast on M6.
“Dad: Pop Dad”
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Editions Dupuis, 48 p.
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