Non Album Collection 89

Embroideries (2005)

From the best–selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for an afternoon of tea drinking and talking. Naturally, the subject turns to love, sex and the vagaries of men.

Epileptic (2005)

The book tells the story of the artist's early childhood and adolescence, focusing on his relationship with his brother and sister. His brother develops severe and intractable epilepsy, causing the family to seek a variety of solutions from alternative medicine, most dramatically by moving to a commune based on macrobiotic principles. As the epileptic brother loses control of his own life, the artist develops solitary obsessions with cartoons, mythology and war. The book's graphic style becomes increasingly elaborate as the children's fantasy life takes over, with their dreams and fears (including epilepsy itself) appearing as living creatures. In brief interludes, the children appear as adults when the artist begins the process of writing the story. David B.

Epoxy (Le Lombard 2003)

All great careers have a beginning! That of Jean Van Hamme was also the magnificent twilight of Paul Cuvelier, mythical co-founder of the newspaper "Tintin". The great artist was suffering from being unable to draw "nudes" in the weeklies of 7 to 77 years. So Van Hamme wrote to him this story which sees the young Epoxy amazon tossed by the gods between pain and pleasure.

Corentin

Corentin is a series of comics created by Belgian artist Paul Cuvelier (1923-1978). Influenced by Robinson Crusoe, Cuvelier created the character of Corentin Feldoë in 1943. The character first appeared in a series of watercolors that Cuvelier made for his own family. Hergé, convinced of the merit of these watercolors, commissioned Cuvelier to do a series of comic strips. Thus, Corentin first made its appearance in Tintin magazine on September 26, 1946.

At the end of the 18th century, Corentin Feldoë, an orphan of Breton origin, decides to flee the house of his uncle, an inveterate drunkard who has been abusing him. Corentin runs off to sea, only to beshipwrecked onto a desert island. Corentin befriends a gorilla named Belzébuth and a tiger named Moloch, and subsequently befriends Kim, an Indian boy, and Sa-Skya, a beautiful princess. Seeing the need for a Western-themed comic in Tintin, editor Raymond Leblanc asked Cuvelier to shift the focus of Corentin in 1949. Cuvelier situated his new adventures in the Wild West but made the hero a grandson of the original Corentin.

Line

Line is the heroine namesake of a series of comics created by Nicolas Goujon and Françoise Bertier and developed by Paul Cuvelier, illustrating the adventures of a young adolescent. Weekly Line, the girls chic log is a magazine published by Le Lombard and Dargaud between 1955 and 1963. This is the female counterpart of the Journal of Tintin. In 1956 the editor, a heroine who seeks to embody the magazine had already published Line adventures but not comics. Nicolas Goujon is the first writer of Line, designed by Françoise Bertier. It is then brown and appears in children's stories but only lasts a few numbers. Resumed in 1958 by Charles Nague (screenplay) and Andrew Gaudelette aka André Joy (drawing), making it a more youthful figure and blonde, with no more success. In 1960, Rol who draws and writes a new Line. From 1962 Paul Cuvelier draws the adventures of the teenage blonde on scenarios of Greg; the series finally found its audience. After stopping the publication of the namesake magazine (May 1963), following line appears in Tintin in several episodes staggered from 1964 to 1971.

Line is very young and brown, with a simple graphic for a child audience. There after it is rejuvenated and transformed into a blonde girl.
Line is a sentimental young girl, lively, brave and generous, who has a good knowledge of first aid, loves to meddle in what does not concern her, willingly puts "the foot in it" and flies to the rescue of his neighbor. His adventures mingled with intimacy particularly affect young teenage romantic. Cuvelier version is older, more forms, and Greg scenarios are more consistent. The design has evolved to a more living form, more colorful.