Arsène Schrauwen

In 1947, the author s grandfather, Arsene Schrauwen, traveled across the ocean to a mysterious, dangerous jungle colony at the behest of his cousin Together they would build something deemed impossible a modern utopia in the wilderness but not before Arsene falls in love with his cousin s wife, Marieke Whether delirious from love or a fever inducing jungle virus, Arsene s loosening grip on reality is mirrored by the graphic novel reader s uncertainty of what is imagined or real by Arsene This first full length graphic novel from the critically acclaimed Olivier Schrauwen is an engrossing, sometimes funny, slightly surreal and often beautiful narrative. Read Arsène Schrauwen – kino-fada.fr On the surface it would appear this pretty remarkable book is a biography of the author s grandfather It can t be literally true, as much of it appears to take place as dream fantasy or fantasies of various kinds It s beautifully and uniquely drawn and as a story sometimes ominous, sometimes funny, with a central focus on Arsene s obsession on his cousin s wife, which is kind of hilarious Some colonialist excursion takes place in dreamlike fashion, a trip into a foreign land It is for me a c On the surface it would appear this pretty remarkable book is a biography of the author s grandfather It can t be literally true, as much of it appears to take place as dream fantasy or fantasies of various kinds It s beautifully and uniquely drawn and as a story sometimes ominous, sometimes funny, with a central focus on Arsene s obsession on his cousin s wife, which is kind of hilarious Some colonia...A surreal and mostly totally apocryphal story of the cartoonist s grandfather s coming of age in the Belgian Congo I m not sure that the Content lives up to the Form, but the Form is certainly spectac...Despite the deceptively simple, sketchy line quality here, Schrauwen packs an incredible amount of visual and narrative sophistication into this Conceptual layouts, odd color interplays, shifting internal and external realities, and a complex syst...Imperialism Love Beer Homoeroticism Hypersexual leopardpeople Tenacious native bacteria that turn you into a human cauliflower Unwanted pregnancies Visionary architecture Old money Insanity Youthful boners A cool red an...Two weeks I can t wait two weeks Oh, come on, OlivierBrian Nicholson s review of the work is well written.Is this a celebration or a damnation of colonialist fervor Is it intentionally primitive or awkwardly so Is it a love story or an architectural review A bit of all of these things, really A mixing of a true story probably maybe with visual realizations of the lurid and surreal undercurrents of meaning that flow through that story Though...A lovely story about a very simple Flemish man who embarks on a trip to the colonies There, he gets entangled in the construction of Freedomville , a sort of Western art city in the middle of the jungle Good plot, nice execution The dry humour and t...Feverish and confounding, like being trapped inside the belly of whatever beast slouched towards empire.hard to overstate how cool looking this is, inside and out not just the rad use of two colors but also o schrauwen s bent sensibility of how to surprise the reader with the movement of panels, the layering, the blend of precision and mess, the recurring moments where ars ne becomes a donkey smoking a cigarette the story of this starts pretty thin and only gets thinner, but the loopy action never gets in the way even when crazy leopard men kidnap the belgians and do sex acts on them I wouldn hard to overstate how cool looking this is, inside and out not just the rad use of two colors but also o schrauwen s bent sensibi...

• English
• 20 December 2017
Olivier Schrauwen
• Hardcover
• 256 pages
• 1606997300
• Olivier Schrauwen
• Arsène Schrauwen