As uninhibited as it is in terms of format and model, the comic rarely offers to see album covers of size XXL whose title is none other than the surname of its creator, reproduced in large characters. However, this is the case Menufrom Jean-Christophe Menu. And, even if the work in question is published by its own publishing house, the Apocalypse, the author is not fully responsible for the choice of this self -centered designation. Explanations.
In 2022, Jean-Christophe Men set out to resuscitate an emblematic collection of the turn operated by 9e Art to an adult readership in the 1970s: 30/40, created by Etienne Robial in Futuropolis. Menu then proposed to the latter, renowned graphic designer (the graphic identity of Canal+is him), to become the collection director again. “Robial accepted, but I did not expect that he asked me to be the first to publish a new album. The vocation of this collection was, in fact, to devote the work of great authors; I did not know that the time of my consecration had arrived. For a year, I could not draw anything, it was too much pressure, I had the stage fright ”entrusted Jean-Christophe Menu, at the end of January, on the sidelines of the Angoulême International Comics Festival.
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