Frantz Duchazeau adapts the myth of Robert Johnson into a magnificent black and white comic book for Sarbacane editions. It looks at the last days of this blues legend who still brings his talent as a musician to life 86 years after his death.
Robert Johnson is a legend of black American music, a legend of the blues, a legend of music in short. He sang like a bird, played the harmonica and the guitar like a god, or perhaps like the devil, since it was under his patronage that his reputation was established.
Raw wounds from birth, a life of self-destructive excess in segregated America, but an exceptional artistic soul, and a creative impulse whose breath continues to irrigate today’s musicians, and way beyond the blues.
Died at 27 – he is part of the famous 27 club – here is “ The last days of Robert Johnson », by Frantz Duchazeau A superb comic book album, all in black and white, published by Sarbacane.
Frantz Duchazeau is the guest of VMDN.
Reporting : Solène Gardré was interested in the colossal artistic legacy left, 86 years after his death, by Robert Johnson. He remains as essential an artist as ever despite his short and tragic life.