La création est un acte délicat. Elle l’est plus encore lorsqu'il s'agit de donner une nouvelle vie à un personnage aussi mythique que Peter Pan. Régis Loisel s'est pourtant attelé à la tâche avec grâce et humilité, mêlant ainsi les ambiances féeriques et lumineuses de James Matthew Barrie aux atmosphères londoniennes sombres mais romantiques de Dickens. Non content de s’approprier avec brio un classique de la littérature, Loisel fit entrer le lecteur ébahi dans les méandres tourmentés de la psychologie humaine, maniant avec honnêteté des notions délicates et taboues, comme la maternité non assumée, la violence des enfants, la vengeance, le complexe d’Œdipe…
Régis Loisel is a cartoonist living in Montreal, Canada. Since the 1970s Loisel has become one of the most decorated French comic artists, especially in the fantasy genre. Loisel has won several awards at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, including the lauded Grand Prix in 2002.
I wasn't a big fan of this, a bit too weird and dark for me... I wasn't neither a fan of the art (it's still beautiful and the artist is amazing, just not really my style...) or even the story... but it turned out to also be a fourth volume... I would still recommend to check it out if you're interested, like weird stuff, and exploration of characters beyond their usual story (which I absolutely I love)
(Also I read for 2020 ReadingRush, and the prompts: cover the color of my birth stone, read outside (aka read by the window while it's open), and also inspired by a movie I've seen :) )
Tinha os 3 últimos volumes da colecção pendentes para ler, e lá retomei... obviamente que não devia ter deixado tanto tempo entre a leitura dos primeiros volumes para agora ler os últimos... já praticamente não me lembrava nada da história... Trata-se de uma adaptação muito livre da história original do Peter Pan, criada por J.M. Barrie, e que faz a ponte com os assassínios de Jack o Estripador na Londres oitocentista... claramente é uma história direccionada para um público mais maduro, e não infanto-juvenil.
Da je ovo Hollywoodski film zvao bi se Petar Pan: Postanak. Samo tad Petar ne bi jeo Panov pepeo, nestale bi opaske o Zvončicinim sisama, ne bi vidjeli kako krokodil jede kapetanovu ruku i općenito kolicina krvi bi pala na puno manju miru, ali bi Jack Trbosjek vjerovatno osta. Ne, nije to film koji bi gledao. Zato živjele Crvene ruke!
Currently available on the Internet Archive, this is the fourth volume of a Peter Pan adaptation. This volume has darker action, including the taking of Hook’s hand by Peter. It’s getting darker, with more Jack the Ripper hints. The comments on volume one apply here too.
À Londres, c’est le début d’un tristement célèbre drame… Je n’ai pas vraiment apprécié ce petit lien sadique… Nous baignons dans le sauvage et la vengeance…