Nicolas Finet

Thierry Lamy

David Bowie in Comics!

A biography in comics of the amazing rock singer Janis Joplin with the highlights of her journey from childhood after the Second World War to her abrupt death in late 1970. It is one of the most fabulous musical adventures in America of the second half of the twentieth century. Yet it lasted only five years. How did a very young messed up woman, a drug addict filled with doubt, become in a few years a planetary icon of rock music? Thanks to a worldwide movement of emancipation which would consecrate for a long time the ideals and modes of alternative lifestyles from counterculture to the flower power generation, Janis, the ugly duckling, gave free rein to her impulses. Fed by the thirst for freedom of the Beat Generation and the desire for emancipation expressed by American youth in the early 1960s, Janis Joplin left for San Francisco, the epicenter of cultural innovation. There, she abandons herself to all impulses, overcoming without hesitation all the taboos of the time: bisexuality, alcohol, drugs, doing so not only with delight, but with the taste for excess which came naturally from her spontaneous character. A lively, fascinating story of a woman ahead of her time.

The Story of Janis Joplin

Love Me Please!

Tony Lourenco

Prince in Comics!

Gilbert Shelton

Christopher

Love Me Please is a biography in comics of the amazing rock singer Janis Joplin, which recalls, respecting the chronology, the highlights of her journey from childhood, after the Second World War, to her abrupt death in late 1970.It is one of the most fabulous musical adventures in America n the second half of the twentieth century. Yet it lasted only five years.How did a very young messed up woman, a drug addict filled with doubt, become in a few years a planetary icon of rock music? She went from the shadows to the blinding light of fame in only four records (the last one issued a month and a half after her tragic death). Thanks to a worldwide movement of emancipation which would consecrate for a long time the ideals and modes of alternative lifestyles from counterculture to the flower power generation, Janis, the ugly duckling, gave free rein to her impulses. Fed by the thirst for freedom of the Beat Generation and the desire for emancipation expressed by American youth in the early 1960s, Janis Joplin left for San Francisco, the epicenter of cultural innovation. She will live there a freedom of which she would hardly have dared to dream, abandoning herself to all impulses, overcoming without hesitation all the taboos of the time: bisexuality, alcohol, drugs, doing so not only with delight, but with the taste for excess which came naturally from her spontaneous character. A lively, fascinating story of a woman ahead of her time.

Le parcours éditorial et cinématographique du Transperceneige est exactement à l’image de ce que raconte son scénario : une histoire de rescapés. Conçu dès le milieu des années 70, ce grand récit typique des angoisses de la fin du millénaire précédent a survécu contre toute attente à la disparition soudaine de son premier dessinateur (Alexis) puis à celle de son premier scénariste Jacques Lob, avant de renaître trente ans après sa première publication sous la forme d’une ambitieuse adaptation cinéma dont l’aboutissement, lui aussi, tient littéralement du miracle. C’est cette très étonnante saga à rebondissements, pleine de détours, de surprises et de coups de théâtre que retrace Nicolas Finet dans ces Histoires du Transperceneige. Nourri d’entretiens, de recherches et d’anecdotes souvent inédites, un grand livre illustré pour explorer et comprendre toutes les facettes, les recoins et les incarnations d’une oeuvre peu commune, en écho à la sortie sur les écrans du film Snowpiercer de Bong Joon-ho et de la publication de la trilogie de Rochette, Lob et Legrand sous la forme d’une intégrale.

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