The Belgian cartoonist Griffo with the complicity of the screenwriter Rodolphe publish “Iruene” published by Daniel Maghen. Un mystical journey between the Canary Islands and Paris, past and present, dream and nightmare, mythology and history of the Guanche people.
It’s a trip between two places: Paris, and a small island in the Canary archipelago, off the coast of Morocco. Between two eras too. The one we live in today, and the 15th century of the Conquistadors. It is also a story between two worlds. The real world, and the world of dreams or nightmares, between fantasy and history with a capital H too.
On the cover of the album, there are two characters: a young man near the open door of his car with his back to us in the middle of the forest; and with his eyes shining like headlights a menacing wolf emerging from the mist. On the cover too, two authors, of course: Griffin and Rudolph.
After adapting “ The Oracle of Luna, and after the diptych “Dickens and Dickens”their new album is called “Iruene”.
Report : In 1931 in Paris the colonial exhibition opens its doors. On the sidelines of this great world event, an association of former settlers has chosen, to entertain the Parisians, to bring in Kanaks, the first people of New Caledonia. Unbeknownst to them, they will find themselves locked in an enclosure, decked out in costumes and amulets to make them more “exotic”. A true story, lived by a hundred men and women, and told by Annelise Heurtier in her latest children’s novel “Savages and men” published by Casterman. Amelie Beaucour interviewed its author.
