Old project which I try a revision and continuation of work. These drawings were made for the collective exhibition of La Zone (January 2019). Some imperfections and still some uncertainty but I prefer the minimalist style in comparison with the digital colorization test.
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Different interpretations are possible through this simple but evocative drawing: nature / industry, destruction / construction, deforestation, urbanization, etc … I thought of it at the beginning for the Zone’s end-of-year exhibition (Liege) on the theme of the city. However, the illustration seems to me shifted to be understood immediately by the spectator. To see […]
“Madame Rêve” soon in color
While waiting for the finalization in color of “Madame Rêve”, a 16 pages comic inspired by Alain Bashung eponymous song, here is the first version of the first page.
The Shop – colorization of the first 4 pages
After a black and withe version, here is a first colorized version.
The Shop – first version
May 30th, 2018 (day -1), submission of the nomination file for the Raymond Leblanc Award. Even if the project has maturing since a long time, the first pages are not always easy to realize as well as the cover which should be thought once the comic strip completed. It was the beginning and the continuous […]
The Shop – comic
Start of the comic book project: “The Shop”. “The Shop” is a resolutely optimistic comic. A dramatic comedy both cynical and burlesque where the joy of living outweighs the depression. The purpose of the story and its characters? Get out of the system to finally live! Here are the first four pages of the story (in […]
2011 – No Bank
November 2011, New York, demonstration by Occupy Wall Street activists protesting inequality in America. Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is a peaceful protest movement denouncing the abuses of financial capitalism.
1968 – No War
Illustration for the last special issue of Kult Magazine (48 FM). August 1968, Chicago, demonstration of the Yippie movement and American students against the Vietnam war at the Democratic Party Convention. Yippie or Youth International Party was an anti-authoritarian and libertarian political party created in the United States in 1967. From a photograph of Julian […]
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Simplified version of an illustration originally made for Kult Magazine.
Kiki vs King Kong: graphic research
Mix between TetraPak etching and drawing in pencil, for a more accomplished realization.
Looking for my best childhood friend.
Kiki, my friend, my protector and my greatest confidant. Sketch for etching on Tetra Pak.
Madame rêve (in black and white before colorization).
On an air of Bashung, according to a dream, for a friend.
AR_ _ _T MACHT FREI
Printing dry-tip engraving on Tetra Pak until its wear. 40 copies of the same engraving, all different by the progressive wear of the support. Does art, like labor, liberate us? AR_ _ _T MACHT FREI: from ideal to alienation, from passion to economic necessities, from excellence to routine, repetition, production, again and again … until […]
The gesture (01)
According to a photo illustrating the death of Malraux. “The gesture” is perhaps the beginning of a series…
No escape (sketch)
Ideas for etching. I hope soon.