On
line creationThe "Avaricious " from
Molière. 1976.
Dessain et Tolra Editors.
Complete text in a comic book.
Front and back covers.
The complete text of the Molière play is "put in scene" in an album of 96 pages comprising more than 900 drawings. The placement in scene plays on relation between text and images. The text, dynamic of the words, their senses, their importance in the lines is put in scene to the same way that the representation of the characters. Characters transform themselves according to the role that they play in the scene, some mark on suits allow to identify them.
In the album, the play is supposed to be played in a the theater and broadcasted by the same time on television. Thus the play is seen by various persons, TVspectators, a bourgeois family, a family of suburbs workors, a popular bar, that live their life in parallel of what going on the screen.
This placement in scene as well as the style of drawings that is processed under the form of sketch restore the atmosphere of the comedy of trestles, comedia d'el arte, of Molièreat his begining. More, some images come with references to painting and to cinema cultures.
My purpose, in 1976, period where comic books in France was still a tabou area forbidden in schooll establishments, was to show that any text written for the theater could be put in scene in a comic, to the benefit of the text itself.
As soon he was publicated, this "Avaricious" had
a certain success, the Pompidou art center in Paris organized a small itinerant
exhibition on this album.
In 1978, I tempted a second experience with Ruy Blas ofVictor
Hugo, which failed.
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