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Isles : La Grande Odyssée

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Première bande dessinée de l’auteur, « Isles » est aussi une invitation à découvrir l’univers fétiche de cet artiste géométrique.

Trois personnages débarquent sur une plage déserte, dans une île inconnue. Aussitôt, ils se séparent et chacun d'eux prend une route différente. Leurs parcours sont rapidement jalonnés d'obstacles et de rencontres dangereuses, révélant un monde guerrier et violent, obscur et intriguant.
De ces explorateurs, de leurs adversaires, de l'origine de tous ces combats, nous ne saurons rien. Seule l'intensité des affrontements nous est livrée, sans autre répit que la beauté des paysages de cette île vénéneuse.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2013

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Jérémy Perrodeau

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Any graphic novel is a novel experience, especish with no dialog. As Albee said of Sam Shepard work, “even an interesting failure, sometimes, isn’t a failure at all.”

I took it as a (spoil) prison break. But my friend thought it was an exploration. Regardless, three descript-non’s search islands for their mysterious objects of power. The style of drawing is crude. Keith Haring-like, I thought I would have tired of it, but it worked for me. There’s no hierarchy in thee pictorial sense. Flat space eschews a separation of value. It calls to mind Mondrian, and how the basic units of the plastics the combination of vertical and horizontal lines. The trees, spears, monkeys, are made of atom-like lines. The ants parading around as people look no different than the rocks they lean against.

It may not have been allegorical, or polemic, lyrical, but it was a romp.
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