L'Amour

by Joann Sfar

¿Existe el amor después de la muerte? Aún más, ¿existe el amor antes de la muerte? Estas y otras preguntas son abordadas por Joann Sfar en esta fábula moderna sobre lo humano y lo inhumano, los rigores del amor y las servidumbres del deseo, las huellas de la intolerancia y la dicha de la amistad compartida. L’Amour (El amor sin amor) persigue las aventuras sexuales del vampiro Fernand, la vampira teen Aspirina y una deslumbrante nómina de seres sobrenaturales que revolotean a su alrededor como polillas frenéticas alrededor de una bombilla. Joann Sfar dobla la apuesta de Vampir, introduce en la historia nuevos y carismáticos personajes y aboca a todos ellos al paroxismo amatorio. Pero ¿qué es exactamente lo que les hace perder el juicio? ¿El amor? ¿El deseo? ¿La obsesión? ¿Es solo la necesidad de sentirse vivos la que arrastra a unos personajes a los brazos de otros para después separarlos sin misericordia? El dibujante francés, en auténtico estado de gracia, firma aquí una mezcla perfecta de vodevil y espectáculo de fenómenos, dando muestra tanto de su espléndido sentido de la comedia física y dialogada como de su sensibilidad y su comprensión de las pasiones humanas.

228 pages, Hardcover

Published June 1, 2021

About the author

Joann Sfar (born August 28, 1971 in Nice) is a French comics artist, comic book creator, and film director.

Sfar is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded in 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu and six other artists. He also worked together with many of the new movement's main artists, e.g. David B. and Lewis Trondheim. The Donjon series which he created with Trondheim has a cult following in many countries.

Some of his comics are inspired by his Jewish heritage as the son of Jewish parents (an Ashkenazi mother and a Sephardic father). He himself says that there is Ashkenazi humor in his Professeur Bell series (loosely based on Joseph Bell), whereas Le chat du rabbin is clearly inspired by his Sephardic side. Les olives noires is a series about a Jewish child in Israel at the time of Jesus. Like Le chat du rabbin, the series contains a lot of historical and theological information.

His main influences are Fred and André Franquin as well as Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, Will Eisner, Hugo Pratt and John Buscema.

From 2009 to 2010, Sfar wrote and directed 'Serge Gainsbourgh: Une Vie Heroique', a biopic of the notorious French songwriter, of whom Sfar is a self-confessed fanatic. The film, which draws substantially on Sfar's abilities as a comic book artist through its extensive use of fantasy artwork, animation and puppetry, was released in 2010 to general critical acclaim.