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La Mondaine #1

La Mondaine, Volumen 1 de 2

En el agitado París de entreguerras la brigada policial contra la prostitución se encarga de limpiar de lujuria las calles de la ciudad y evitar el comercio de los cuerpos. Esta patrulla particular, liderada por un curioso inspector afi cionado al ciclismo, es popularmente conocida como “La mondaine”. Aimé Louzeau acaba de incorporarse al cuerpo de vigilancia. Pero el verdadero peligro está mucho más cerca de lo que piensa Aimé.

Otro prodigio de Zidrou , el guionista de moda, de nuevo maravillosamente dibujado por Jordi Lafebre tras su primera colaboración en Lydie, que nos habla sobre los tabús más secretos de la carne.

65 pages, Hardcover

First published January 23, 2014

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Zidrou

378 books172 followers
Pseudonym of Benoît Drousie.

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Profile Image for Chad.
11.2k reviews1,108 followers
January 22, 2018
A slice of life story about a rookie vice squad detective set in 1937 Paris. He's straight-laced and has some strange family problems. Not for everyone. Lots of sex ad nudity.

Received a review copy from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Profile Image for Wayne McCoy.
4,383 reviews33 followers
December 29, 2017
'Vice Squad Volume 1' by Zidrou with art by Jordi Lafebre is about a fish out of water who joins a new department in his police squad.

The book is framed by it's present which is taking place in the shelters underneath Paris as the Germans are bombing the city. Aime Louzeau is reminded of his time working in the Vice Squad. He didn't want to join the department, and he gets coerced into it. He is so straitlaced and his fellow officers, as he finds out, are corrupted by the crimes they are supposed to be stopping. Will Aime stay vigilant and uncorrupted?

The story is probably not going to be for everyone, and I'm not sure I'm that fond of it, but the art and story work very well together. I'm reminded of the Philippe Noiret film, My New Partner in tone.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Europe Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
Profile Image for Elfo-oscuro.
811 reviews35 followers
April 6, 2020
Muy buena historia sobre la brigada policial que perseguía la prostitución a mediados de siglo en Paris. Aparece la ocupación nazi de Paris pero solo como trasfondo, y por supuesto la corrupción de la policia pasandompor los oscuros secretos de la gente y algo de gastronomia francesa. Todo eso en el primer tomo solo!
Profile Image for Laure.
114 reviews
December 11, 2025
La manière dont les femmes sont présentées ça me soule. surtout qu'on veut faire passer le gars pour un mec bien mais il est pas mieux que les autres. jvais quand même lire l'autre tome pour avoir toute l'histoire, mais bon pas emballée
Profile Image for Marc Pastor.
Author 17 books465 followers
November 27, 2015
Potser la història no és res de l'altre món i peca de previsible, però Lafebre és un geni.
Profile Image for Siina.
Author 35 books25 followers
December 12, 2017
Vice Squad is surely very Parisienne and bourgeois and dirty and suffocating at the same time. It's hard to say what the plot is and while reading this, I kept thinking that this makes no sense. For me it felt like the comic consists of smaller stories, these sequences, even though that probably wasn't the case as such or at least I had hard time connecting them together. The year is 1937 and Aimé Louzeau works as an inspector in Paris, but isn't really enjoying his job and thus asks for a transfer. Instead of killings and such, his work is now about following pimps and prostitutes. I really liked the free sex, dirtiness and the looming war behind everything. Survival is washed down with perverse and worn acts and only European comic makers can do it like this. You can even smell the cigarettes and the booze through the pages. The devil's fingerprints scene was pure marvelous. What I really liked about the comic is that it shows how nasty things have other sides and some of them can be beautiful and a choice worth to make.

The art is superb and the thin line art with deep and worn colors just scream for the 1930s. The structure of the comic isn't necessarily the best, but the art saves a lot. It's hard to follow what is happening and when, since the comic keeps skipping forward in weird spins. I do hope the second part will somehow wrap this up, since the comic is almost all over the place. Yet, at the same time Vice Squad is very thrilling and the art makes you follow it keenly, so Zidrou surely knows what he is doing.
Profile Image for Anne Mey.
593 reviews
December 22, 2017
Mêmes dessinateurs et scénaristes que les beaux étés mais cette bd est plus pesante. On suit un jeune à son arrivée à la brigade des moeurs et sa découverte de ses collègues et de son boulot. Il porte un passé assez chargé rempli de non dit. Ils représentent bien les attitudes et comportements grivois des policiers qui baignés dans l'univers de la débauche y participent allègrement aussi. A voir si le tome 2 donne un souffle de libération à l'histoire ou continue à perturber et mettre mal à l'aise.
Profile Image for StrictlySequential ArtNarrative.
4,304 reviews24 followers
February 8, 2026
24×32 ¦ d(.l.)/2014/0086/073 ¦ prix DA07 = eo(noté)

Despite giving **** at intermission, I have that feeling of being amidst a full story *****

Narrative: ****
I trust Zidrou- it's that I can't understand where the animal kink thing fits in or why he intro-framed the future (of interior timeframe) instead of arriving at it naturally.

Visual: ****
Beautiful in grand format!
Profile Image for Manon the Malicious.
1,386 reviews68 followers
December 1, 2017
*2.25 Stars*

I was provided an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was clearly not for me.
I did not like the drawings, the story left me completely indifferent when it didn’t annoy me and I found the characters pretty damn irritating.
Profile Image for Koen Claeys.
1,371 reviews28 followers
June 13, 2014
Zidrou does it again. Er valt niet veel actie te bespeuren in deze strip, het leest als een lange introductie van de personages. Dit wordt echter met zoveel charme, een snuifje humor en een flinke dosis poëzie gedaan dat ik niet anders kan dan van deze strip te houden, zelfs al zou het vervolg eventueel tegenvallen. Zidrou is toch wel DE stripauteur van het moment, gezien het aantal stripparels die we de laatste jaren van hem onder ogen kregen.
Één van die juweeltjes, 'Lydie' (zie : http://www.stripspeciaalzaak.be/PHP/b... ) was getekend door Lafebre. Toen ik de pagina's van 'La Mondaine' voor de eerste keer zag in mijn stripspeciaalzaak wist ik het al : dit is weer een feest voor het oog. Wat kan die kerel tekenen.
Samen met 'Les Folies Bergères' (zie : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... ) heeft Zidrou twee van de beste strips van 2014 geschreven. Merci !
Profile Image for Francis.
346 reviews
December 20, 2014
Una novela gráfica que no debéis dejar escapar de Jordo Lafebre y Zidrou: los autores de Lydie.

Según la Prefectura de Policía de París, 13.152 judíos fueron detenidos en julio de 1942 durante lo que ha pasado a la historia como la "redada del Velódromo de Invierno". 12.884 judíos fueron hacinados en el Velódromo. 4.051 niños. 5.802 mujeres. 3.051 hombres. Casi todos fueron deportados a campos de concentración. Menos de un centenar salieron con vida...

Una maravillosa obra de arte... si queréis saber más próximamente en el blog:

http://francisforcoppola.blogspot.com...
Profile Image for La Espada en la Tinta.
367 reviews155 followers
November 10, 2014
Zidrou nos lleva a la Francia de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, exactamente al año 1944 –como se puede comprobar por la portada–, y en las primeras escenas nos muestra a un gran grupo de personas metidas en un refugio antibombas; no son solo ciudadanos, sino que también hay presente un soldado del ejército nazi que trata de mantener una conversación despreocupada con nuestro protagonista: el inspector Aimé Louzeau de La Mondaine.

Sigue leyendo...
Profile Image for Christoph Segers.
641 reviews35 followers
June 28, 2015
Ondertussen al enkele meesterwerken van Zidrou achter de kiezen en deze moet er niet voor onder doen, al is het 'eerste deel'-gevoel wel sterk aanwezig: weinig plotontwikkeling, vooral veel karakterschets. Benieuwd hoe het afloopt.
Profile Image for Tar Buendía.
1,285 reviews83 followers
August 15, 2014
Qué agridulce y maravilloso es Zidrou. Y los dibujos de son amor absoluto.

Si no le doy las cinco estrellas es porque algunos trozos a nivel narrativo me han parecido un poco liosos.
Profile Image for Mathieu.
389 reviews20 followers
January 1, 2015
Une éocation plutôt bien vue du Paris d'avant et de l'Occupation. J'aime l'ambiguité des personnages, et le dessin est vraiment expressif.
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