La Fontaine aux fables: Trente-six fables de La Fontaine interprétées en bande dessinée: Texte Intégral

Title

en_US La Fontaine aux fables: Trente-six fables de La Fontaine interprétées en bande dessinée: Texte Intégral

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US First edition

en_US Jean de La Fontaine

Creator

en_US de La Fontaine, Jean See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Various

Date

2016-01-25T20:00:30Z

en_US 2010-11

en_US 2010

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:00:30Z

Date Issued

en_US 2010

Abstract

en_US This volume puts together the three separate volumes published in 2002, 2004, and 2006, each containing twelve fables. As I mentioned there, this is a high-class volume of comics. The curious endpapers of the first two shorter editions have been replaced with plain maroon. The artist for each fable can be found in the T of C at the back; few seem to have more than one fable represented here. The fables here probe dimensions not perceived in the text, as when the wolf first makes various attempts on the sheep, only to be thwarted by a dog, and then tries on various disguises before settling on that of a shepherd (3). The stories themselves last generally about three or four pages with about eleven or twelve individual pictures on a page. I find the artists here clever. Two of them bring in FC as clever additions to their illustrations of other fables. Thus both the fox and the crow get distracted when the mule with a casket of gold passes by on 24. FC shows up again on 44 as a short distraction in FS. This is very high quality comics work! One particularly good effect has to do with the destruction of the unwitting. Thus the weasel and rabbit destroyed by Raminogrobis the cat are represented in the last pane only by their characteristic clothing, which is all that is left of them (10). Earlier the corpse of the wolf who had masqueraded as a shepherd is hanged with a shepherd's crook through his heart (5). Do not miss the great pane of wolf's eyes on the top of 38. The final picture of OF on 53 has a Red Cross cart and a puddle of blood where there used to be a frog. UP plays well with the deceitful talk between fox and rooster, as when the author gives the fox a thought-bubble of a meal while the fox himself talks peace or when the rooster uses binoculars to see dogs who are in fact grazing cows (56). AD is graced with a particular mordant pane on the ant's bite of the archer (65). TH is done with unicycle and hot-dog motorcycle (70). One of the best stories here for filling the gaps with great pictures is OR (74). Do not miss the animals waiting at the bus stop in spring in Le Cheval et le Loup (85). The first picture for Les Animaux malades de la peste is a spine-tingler done in black, blue, and purple (95). In fact, this fable turns out to be a delight, as when the artist pictures the lamb hearing the fox say that the murderous lion did sheep an honor by eating them (97)! By the end of that page, everyone has a halo over his head, including the dangling spider. The story ends dramatically on 99 with the fly-infested skeleton of the poor ass who confessed to eating some of the monks' grass as he passed along their meadow. I have never seen a stag with a rack like that on 100! Another favorite of mine is FM on 110-13, which ends with the hawk's nestlings picking over the bones of both the frog and the mouse. Le Chat et le Renard (33-35) is one candidate for the book's most unusual style. Another is La Mort et le Bûcheron (66) with its appropriately heavy blues and blacks. I enjoy the variety and wit that go into these depictions. I want to see about using them in some interactive mode with people.

Identifier

en_US 9782756024905

en_US 7078 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82355

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Guy Delcourt Productions

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US PZ24.2.L3 2010 See all items with this value

en_US Jean La Fontaine See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole