Back to Blog
Epileptic david beauchard5/14/2023 Fantastic beasts and dark winds lurk around the peripheries of the real events being depicted and often come leaping right through them. He spun his intricate fantasies of war, monsters and shadowy conspiracies into elaborate drawings, which flow through the pages of this magnificent volume. Meanwhile, David increasingly retreated into a rich interior private universe to escape the reality an incurable sickness. The family shuttled up to Paris to see acupuncturists and spent time in a macrobiotic commune that quickly became ugly and fascistic. Many of them worked at first but became progressively less effective treatment for Jean-Christophe turned into a revolving door of one guru after another. B.’s parents eventually lost faith in traditional doctors, who treated their ailing son more like a test case than a human being, and moved on to alternative cures. His older brother, Jean-Christophe, began having severe seizures at an early age, and the disease gradually consumed the family. Fantastical, gloriously illustrated graphic memoir of the French cartoonist’s life, overshadowed by an epileptic brother.īorn Pierre-François Beauchard, David B., a founding member of the avant-garde cartoonist group L’Association, grew up in a small town near Orleans during the 1960s, the son of two open-minded educators.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |