Le Miroir De Mowgli

Dans Le Livre de la jungle, le vieux Baloo interdit formellement à Mowgli de fréquenter le peuple Singe, les Bandar-log, le peuple sans loi, sans chef et sans langage, qui ne fait qu'imiter les autres peuples de la jungle. Mowgli, lui ne comprend pas cette interdiction puisque les singes sont bien ceux qui lui sont le plus semblables... Comme un appendice au Livre de la jungle, Olivier Schrauwen fantasme ici une fable dans laquelle Mowgli, désormais adolescent, déambule seul dans la jungle en quête de sa propre image, d'un semblable et de ses origines. C'est d'abord en rencontrant une femelle orang-outan qu'il pense trouver son alter ego. Il poursuit une quête qui va le conduire à toutes les déconvenues, rejeté et malmené par les autres animaux, il devra se rendre à l'évidence qu'il est condamné à la solitude dans le monde sauvage et ira jusqu'à façonner un pastiche d'homme en bouse d'éléphant tel un Prométhée absurde pour se rasséréner. Ce n'est qu'après une course tout aussi malheureuse que burlesque et désopilante, où il finira au fond des eaux, touchant le fond au sens propre, qu'il remontera à la surface et rencontrera enfin son semblable, un pêcheur qui le révélera à sa propre humanité. Dans ce récit muet, pour la première fois publié en 2011, Olivier Schrauwen fait montre d'une inventivité et d'une efficacité graphiques remarquables, on retrouve un imaginaire dense où s'entremêlent les références de cet auteur unique et rare. Le Miroir de Mowgli, est ici réédité dans une bichromie orange et bleue proche de la risographie et du format initial dans lequel Olivier Schrauwen l'a lui-même publié.

In this wordless tale, the young human boy Mowgli lives alone in the jungle. When he befriends an orangutan, Mowgli thinks he has found his lifemate. But Mowgli still wonders if there any other creatures that look like him. Mowgli sets out on a journey through the jungle, encountering all types of creatures and having numerous adventures. A fantastic use of layout and design by critically-acclaimed Olivier "Ollie" Schrauwen, printed in orange and blue spot colors. * Nominated for a 2016 Eisner Award

Since Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in Ariel and as a brilliant forerunner of the feminist coming-of-age novel in her semiautobiographical The Bell Jar. Each new biography has offered insight and sources with which to measure Plath’s life and influence. Sylvia Plath Day by Day, a two-volume series, offers a distillation of this data without the inherent bias of a narrative. Volume 1 commences with Plath’s birth in Boston in 1932, records her response to her elementary and high school years, her entry into Smith College, and her breakdown and suicide attempt, and ends on February 14, 1955, the day she wrote to Ruth Cohen, principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, to accept admission as an “affiliated student at Newnham College to read for the English Tripos.” Sylvia Plath Day by Day is for readers of all kinds with a wide variety of interests in the woman and her work. The entries are suitable for dipping into and can be read in a minute or an hour. Ranging over several sources, including Plath’s diaries, journals, letters, stories, and other prose and poetry—including new material and archived material rarely seen by readers—a fresh kaleidoscopic view of the writer emerges.

This collects six wildly inventive short comics stories that might collectively be dubbed “speculative memoir.” Schrauwen’s deadpan depictions of his and his offspring's upcoming lives include alien abduction, dialogue with future agents, and coded messages in envelopes at breakfast.

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.

A poetic fable for grown-ups full of wisdom and beauty, by two Belgian masters of graphic storytelling.Out on the high seas lives a whale unlike any other, who spends her days reading stories to all who will listen, taken from the vast library hidden in her belly. When the whale bumps into a sea postman's boat one fateful night, it's the beginning of an extraordinary friendship. But not every story can have a happy ending...