La longue-vue

by Blexbolex

Un personnage découvre une longue vue très spéciale. Quand on regarde à l'intérieur, on est téléporté à l’endroit qu’on aperçoit. Sans qu’il ait le temps de réaliser ce qui lui arrive, le personnage se retrouve propulsé là ou il ne faut pas…Ce procédé aussi graphique que narratif est la source d’un aventure fantaisiste et rythmée qui rappelle le comique Slapstick du cinéma muet, ou les débuts de la BD américaine. Édité pour la première fois en 2005 chez Thierry Magnier en noir et blanc, la BD a été mise en couleur à l’occasion de cette réédition.

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 17, 2006

About the author

Blexbolex is a French comics artist and illustrator. Born Bernard Granger in Douai, he studied screen printing (sérigraphie) at the School of Fine Arts (L’école européenne supérieure de l'image) in Angoulême. His first works were self-published, and later he contributed to Popo Color, Fusée, and Ferraille. His highly stylized, ligne claire illustration, inspired by the films of Jacques Tati and whodunits of the 1950s and 1960s, gradually gained an audience. In Germany, he directed an art studio at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee (School of Art and Design Berlin-Weissensee) and he also worked regularly with a number of editors, including Thierry Magnier, Pipifax, United Dead Artists, Les Requins-Marteaux, and Cornélius. Blexbolex has contributed to the American publication The Ganzfeld.

In 2009, he received a prize for “Best Book Design of the World” for his L'Imagier des gens (2008) at the Book Fair of Leipzig.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[StrictlySequential · Rating 4 out of 5]

105 x 150 = Petite Poche bd = AI 12/2005 = DL 01/2006 = 5€ = eo

1-3 panels-per-page engaging wordlessness

He buys a telescope and realizes that it rockets him directly to whatever he sees in it which leads him the whole way up to icebergs to get literally frozen and all sorts of interesting and awkward situations that even include a terrifying "Jurassic Park" island.
It's fun!

[Lucas · Rating 4 out of 5]

A man accidentally discovers a spyglass that transports you to where you point it, landing you in a different time. A worldless romp through space and time, in the slapstick vein of silent movies. Very fun story and arr