After 15 years of work and six albums published, Jean-Pierre Gibrat is about to close his essential historical series Mattéo. A singular romantic and romantic saga. An intimate and humanist story against a backdrop of great history between the turmoil of the interwar period, from the First to the Second World War, including the Russian Revolution, the Popular Front and the Spanish Civil War.
On the cover of the album is glued a red dot: “The great historical saga is coming to an end”. Historical, certainly, but also splendidly romantic than the destiny of Matteo. This hero whose intimate and sentimental life marries the upheavals of European history at the beginning of the 20th century, from 1914 to 1940.
With its expressive characters sculpted by its direct colors, its chiaroscuro lights and its effective framing, Jean-Pierre Gibrat recounts love, friendship, paternity, the fervor of commitment, the excesses of passion and lost illusions, eloquent silences and knowing glances, in short, the emotions and feelings that are buried or that overflow from each of us, the worst and the best of what makes us human.
The last volume of Mattéo, the sixth era – which runs from September 2, 1939 until June 3, 1940 – is available from Futuropolis editions.
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