La Belette/The Weasel
New edition 2012
| Author: Didier Comès |
Series: Comès
Soft Cover
Black & white
142 pages
Dimensions 23.5 x 29.5 cms
ISBN: 2203060514
EAN: 9782203060517
Price: € 20.00
Release Date: 02/05/2012
Two urbanites, Gerald and Anne, had just settled in a village in the Ardennes with their son Peter, an autistic teenager. The first contacts with the locals are a neighbour whose manner is very elusive, a rather peculiar priest and a strange woman dressed all in black, known as the “Weasel.” These initial contacts are difficult, sometimes heated, however the tension heightens when Gerald, a television producer who is very condescending vis-à-vis the “superstitious” local, decides to make a documentary about the ancient rites of sorcerers still alive in rural areas.
Unspoken feelings and old hatreds are still raw and to cap things off strange events are increasing. The new pregnancy of Anne becomes an issue in the clashes that shake this wild countryside …
In late 1981, shortly after seeing Silence triumph, Didier Comès undertakes the publication of his new graphic novel: The Weasel. A great story with fantastic art which, more than three decades after its release, has lost none of its dark beauty.
My only problem here was working out whether the film Comes saw was “Silence Triumphant” or “Triumph of Silence”.
The production on this book is superb and it all adds to the style of Comes’ art. Characters are almost “grotesques” and the wonderful black and white art dazzles the eyes. The book is not heavily dialogued so is no great trial. You see, black and white artwork can be as good, if not better, than colour on so many levels.
Superb.
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