Juliette: Or, the Ghosts Return in the Spring

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A regular of the local dive bar, Polux mostly whiles away the hours drifting into the lassitude of drink, spending his days with the occasional hook up and silly bets, seemingly dissolving into a state of permanent ennui. Camille Jourdy is a writer and illustrator from France. Her other works include graphic novels Rosalie Blum and Les Vermeilles. She works with Moulin Roty, a toy company. ( From Drawn & Quarterly) featured sponsor Vancouver! Discover The Cultch's 50th Anniversary Season The Mirror by Gravity & Other Myths is playing Jan. 25–27, 2024 at the Vancouver Playhouse. Photo by Daniel Boud.

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depicts a milieu where full-blown depression is seldom more than a frame or two away. Most people look like they’re struggling with their weight; men are disinclined to shave but not quite ambitious enough to grow beards; smoking is seemingly required by law. The place to be, for many, is the local bar. Called Le Tropical, its ambience is as unlike a beach in Tahiti as could be imagined. But it is the neighbourhood nerve centre, practically the only informal gathering place in a setting that otherwise discourages such things.Et si je vous parlais de Juliette, écrite et dessinée par Camille Jourdy. C'est une merveilleuse BD tout en rondeur, presque en apesanteur. Les couleurs ont quelque chose qui rappelle du pastel. C'est un charme désuet, comme un tableau du Douanier Rousseau... Oh ! Oh ! Je suis entrée dans la librairie dans l'espoir d'y trouver "Rosalie Blum" -le film m'a eue!- et j'en suis ressortie avec " Juliette" sous le bras, ne sachant pas trop si j'étais ravie de ce changement imprévue de cavalière ou bien déçue. J'ai appris que parfois, il fallait se méfier des élans lyriques d'un libraire par trop énamouré. Talking is reserved for when we’re really drunk or high, or about to be murdered or something,” says Sammie of male friendships early in Mattie Lubchansky’s “ Boys Weekend.” It’s a statement that will be cast into relief over the course of the story, which finds the transfeminine Sammie (who, like Lubchansky, uses they/them pronouns) reluctantly joining a bachelor party gone spectacularly bad. By the end of their time on the artificial island El Campo, a sort of near-future Las Vegas where anything goes, Sammie and their former friends have gotten drunk and high, and been about to be murdered together, but talk still comes with only the greatest difficulty — when it comes at all. Ha sido de esos libros que lees con pena porque se acaba rápido y encima te encanta tanto que no quieres llegar a la última página.

Juliette by Camille Jourdy 9781770466647 Coles Books Juliette by Camille Jourdy 9781770466647 Coles Books

Juliette ne va pas bien. D'aucuns pourraient dire qu'elle est dépressive, puisqu'il faut étiqueter les gens comme les bocaux de confiture. Elle traîne perpétuellement un air un peu triste, un peu paumé et s'inquiète constamment de son coeur qui bat trop vite. Ou pas assez. Elle décide donc de quitter Paris pour rentrer passer un peu de temps chez son père, sorte de Pierrot lunaire cynique et solitaire, rendu morose par un divorce difficile. Grand-mère n'était pas prête. (…) Ferme pas y'a ton excitée de mère et son nouveau mec qui suivent. Une comédie du quotidien aussi belle et intelligente, humble et lumineuse, on n’en lit pas souvent en bande dessinée. Alors, ne nous privons pas. Her sister, a caregiver and mother of two, is carrying on an elaborate affair with a man from a costume shop. Her parents, separated, are now estranged. Father is sure he’s developing Alzheimer’s, though it’s more likely that he’s simply getting old. Mother, on the other hand, revels in the second act of her life as a free woman, an artist with a show at their local gallery to prove it. It’s this second element that provides an indication of the other core themes of the book. Namely disappointment, the grief of dwindling dreams, the encroaching shadow of mortality and time passing. Or as Juliette and Polux allude to, the “tragic dimension.” While there is some crepuscular sadness here, the meat of the story is marbled with rich veins of humour, wonder and the loving touches that can only come from close observation.

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J'ai quand même bien le droit de te payer des études ! T'es partie de la maison tellement tôt que je ne t'ai jamais rien payé du tout. Mélancolique et comique, Camille Jourdy met en scène des personnages qui subissent la vie, non sans une certaine légèreté. In the broadest terms, Léonie Bischoff’s “ Anaïs Nin: A Sea of Lies” can be read as a comic book biography of its subject. Drawing primarily on Nin’s “ Henry and June” and “ Incest,” it retells the stories of several of her most famous sexual and romantic entanglements. More important, though, it attempts to make sense of Nin’s effort to conceive of herself as a writer, often over the protestations of the men in her life. No os la perdáis aunque no sea precisamente barata, aún así, cuando la lees y disfrutas de las ilustraciones se entiende perfectamente porque tiene ese precio. Wordless and experimental, Joe Kessler’s “ The Gull Yettin” traces the disquieting connection between a young boy and the shape-shifting, birdlike creature that is obsessed with him. We follow the boy from the death of his family, through a perilous voyage across the water and into, for a time, the care of a woman who takes him in as if he were her own.