Manu Larcenet: 27 books

In this seven-chapter graphic novel, Manu Larcenet doesn't hold back as he grapples with his relationship to drawing, his doubts, his limits, and others' perception of his books.

Manu Larcenet poursuit son exploration autobiographique sous la forme d’un journal intime découpé en sept chapitres. Son rapport avec le dessin, ses doutes, ses limites et le regard de l’autre sont autant de thèmes développés sans concession dans « L’Artiste de la famille ».

Manu and Mariette have immigrated to the countryside. Manu wants a vegetable garden and Mariette wants a baby. But Manu, who's celebrating with much jubilation the birth of his very first radish, is having a hard time accepting the notion of parenthood. I mean, imagine having to admit to your child...

So it's finally happened: Mariette is pregnant. And so is Manu. He's brushing up on his baby and parenthood knowledge with the help of Dr. Spock, who, Manu finds, is rather evasive regarding the torments of a father-to-be. Still, preparation is the key to success, and Manu's about as prepared as he...

It all starts in a school playground, and then it moves to a classroom, where Larcenet's superb graphic camera zooms in on two ten-year-old kids: Gildas and Martina. The pair of them are ever so slightly obsessed with Sci-fi. To the extent they think they're surrounded by robots and aliens. As far...

Tensions are running high in Ravenelles! Manu is feeling a little fragile what with Mariette taking up her studies again, his own professional dilemmas in the mix and a young child wreaking havoc in the background. What's more, he soon finds himself on the wrong side of the mayor Adrien Coquelot in...

Capucine isn't sleeping at night, Ravenelles is hit with the storm of the century, M. Henri is building himself some sort of ark in preparation... and Manu seems to be suffering the strangest of visions...

Mancini's story gets harder and harder to digest, as it spirals towards it's violent and sordid climax. We see cracks beginning to appear in that seemingly impenetrable calm he maintains in the interrogation room, as he relates his difficult winter, his internment in a psychiatric hospital, his discovery...

Back to the interrogation room nestled at the heart of that gray, clouded metropolis, and Polza's story continues. We soon find ourselves extracted from that police station, the metaphor for everything that this extraordinary protagonist seeks to escape (law, bureaucracy, morality, social codes, restriction),...

Dallas Cowboys est un récit autobiographique. Il nous propose un huit-clos face à l’insomnie, à ce moment étrange entre éveil et sommeil, où on est conscient de ne plus l’être. S’ensuit un bilan ou plutôt un retour en arrière de l’auteur sur son enfance, ses peurs, ses complexes, ses erreurs, enfin, tout ce qui fait une vie.

A man - filthy, stinking, alone and obese - is taken in by the police. We don't yet know what he's done, or why he's there. But he's going to tell us his story. The story of a man who strives to live by his own rules, free from the bounds of socially imposed morality and norms, an ambition inspired...

Marco's left town for the countryside. He's left his psychologist because he feels he's doing better. He's quit his job as a reporter because he's had enough of photographing corpses. He gets himself a little cottage in the heart of rural France, where he lives with his cat, Adolf. He throws out all...

Construit sur le principe des strips, l’auteur nous livre ses réflexions personnelles sur la vie à travers une narration et un graphisme inédit. Réédition agrémentée de 8 nouvelles pages dans lesquelles l’auteur porte un autre regard sur ce livre, édité en 2000.