Pamplemoussi

by Geneviève Castrée

PAMPLEMOUSSI is Geneviève Castrée's third book for L'Oie de Cravan, a 68-page 12x12 inch graphic tour de force presented in a limited edtion of 800 copies with a silkscreened color cover and includes a 12" lp of her songs! Graphically this is certainly her most accomplished work to date, the huge size of the book allowing her to get into crazy details that explode on the page. The book translates the 8 songs of the record into images. And this record is no comic-book-artist-trying-to-sing thing. After much touring under her musician name of Woelv, Geneviève, with some help from Run Chico Run and Phil Evrum of The Microphones, has developped a unique and strong style. Something of a francophone Chan Marshall with some Bjork inflections. But forget comparaisons : you have to hear it really. Included are lyrics in french and English.

Genres: Comics, Art, Canada, Graphic Novels, Music

Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Geneviève Castrée was born in Québec in 1981. She started inventing and drawing characters at the age of two. She did not learn it in school. At the end of High School, she took her diploma and disappeared. Impatient and lazy, Geneviève did not study "art". She made books and had exhibitions in countries such as Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia and Japan.

Castrée added music and performance to her work from time to time. She made records and played concerts under the names Ô PAON and Woelv.

Geneviève Castrée lived in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States with her husband, musician Phil Elverum. In 2015, she gave birth to a daughter, Agathe, and was diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer just a few months later. She died in 2016.

Reviews

[Penelope · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a beautiful album, accompanied by a gorgeous book.