In an anonymous metropolis of a weakened country that we guess is Lebanon, Joseph Safieddine and Cyril Doisneau tell us the trajectories in four stages of two childhood friends, the one who left and the one who remained. A story that offers a reflection on identity, uprooting and transmission.
It’s a comic book that talks about identity and culture, exile and uprooting, sharing and transmission. A black and white story, which unfolds over three generations, with an alert, light drawing, sometimes bordering on burlesque, but which nevertheless poses fundamental questions that will speak to all families of immigrants or immigrants. emigrants and those who rub shoulders with them: should we cut the link with our country of origin? Should we, on the contrary, pass on this heritage to our children and grandchildren? And if we answer no to these two questions, can we be ourselves?
In the script, the Franco-Lebanese Joseph Safieddine and who lives between Lebanon and France. In drawing, Cyril Doisneau, French cartoonist but who lives in Quebec. their album “The Fuses” was published by Dupuis editions.
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