In 2016, Valentine Cuny-Le-Callet began a correspondence with Renaldo McGirth, a young American sentenced to death and imprisoned in Florida. She describes in black and white today over 418 pages their epistolary relationship. A comic strip activist against the lavish death penalty.
Two years ago Valentine Cuny-Le-Callet published in Stock editions a story entitled The world in five square meters, in which she recounted four years of exchanges with an American death row inmate, convicted of the murder of a pensioner during a robbery that went wrong.
Today, she comes to present us with a comic book. 400 pages of words, drawings, engravings, which tells the story of his friendship with this man Renaldo McGirth, but also part of his own story, that of a young black American in a society marked by racism and the segregation.
An album that also tells itself, since the making-off, the production of the work is at the very heart of the narration. An album which is also a chilling testimony to prison life and the horror of the death penalty. In short, an album that is all that at the same time, and probably a little more. An album with four hands, signed Valentine Cuny-Le-Callet.
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