Nombre - Intégrale

by Thierry Smolderen (Contributor), Egger (Drawings)

Plongez dans ce siècle des grandes découvertes scientifiques et suivez l’aventure d’Ada, une jeune femme brillante dont le destin semble lié à celui de cet ogre mystérieux. Une histoire sublime qui raconte la différence, l’intolérance et les génies marquant de l’ère moderne. Laissez-vous guider dans cet étrange conte fantastique, au croisement entre Sherlock Holmes et les frères Grimm.

Genres: Comics

120 pages, Hardcover

Published January 3, 2024

About the author

Thierry Smolderen (born 25 November 1954) is an essay writer, as well as a script writer of Belgian comic strips.

Smolderen is a teacher at École des Beaux-Arts of Angoulême, France. As a comic books historian, he wrote Naissances de la bande dessinée (2009), about the "platinum age" of comics. This book has been published in English by the University Press of Mississippi in 2014, under the title The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay (Eisner Award nominee of 2015 in the Best Scholarly/Academic Work category).

Reviews

[Ed Erwin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Story of a girl, Ada, growing up in the England of the 1800s as the child of a mathematician, Charles Bubbage [sic], and her interactions with an idiot savant called 'Number', an odd poet obsessed with Baudelaire, and a serial killer. Deals with society changing due to a new scientific worldview and slowly increasing rights.

Interesting enough for 3.5 stars, though I was quite annoyed with the many times these 18th-century gentlemen used the word 'yeah' which felt anachronistic. [I read it in French. English words were sprinkled around, and it was only 'yeah' which felt out of place.]