"Le Grimoire d'Elfie", a great success as a bookseller and an invitation to the marvelous on the roads of France -

Drakoo

  • Le Grimoire d'Elfie

    , published by Drakoo, is the new comic strip by Chistophe Arleston (

    Lanfeust

    ), with Audrey Alwett in the screenplay and Mini Ludvin in the drawing

  • A story of magic, mystery and humanity, aboard a traveling bookstore, with in this first volume a stop on a Breton island

  • His universe evokes the cinema of Hayao Miyazaki and the

    Harry Potter

    series

A little dried dragon's blood, a hint of volcanic salamander saliva, a pinch of spruce powder ... In magic potion recipes, it's all about the dosage, and the same goes for fantastic stories and adventures .

A little

Kiki the little witch

by Hayao Miyazaki, a hint of

Club des Cinq

, a pinch of Harry Potter, here is the magic formula

of Elfie's Grimoire

published by Drakoo, a new comic book by Christophe Arleston (

Lanfeust

), with Audrey Alwett in the scenario, Mini Ludvin in the drawing and Hélène Lenoble in the colors.

A bookstore success already sold to more than 15,000 copies and planned for several volumes.

The love and magic of books

With its shimmering cover and its old book effect,

Le Grimoire d'Elfie

will have no trouble attracting the eye of children and adolescents, to whom it is primarily intended.

Comics also put this love of books and reading into perspective.

Since the death of their mother, Elfie and Magda have lived with their cantankerous aunt, until the day their big sister returns from London with an English bus transformed into a traveling bookstore.

And let's go for a Tour de France, with a first stop on a Breton island shaken by old resentments around a lost stamp.

Whether it is the life of three or the regional roots, the story is primarily concerned with human relations, between benevolence, inclusiveness but also the sweetness and harshness of life, depending on the moment, depending on the children.

The discovery that Magda has lost a leg and is wearing a prosthesis is a success from this point of view, both a daily scene and the beginning of a response to a malaise, to loneliness.

She also wants to go on an adventure.

The little things every day

And the magic in all of this?

No wizarding school or superpowers, the marvelous always comes to enlighten the human being, by touches, like the grimoire from which Elfie draws its magic and which it must nourish with stories.

Again and again literature.

“I had long wanted to write for young people,” says Christophe Arleston in the press kit.

Rediscover the freshness and enthusiasm that you have the first time you read

Treasure Island

, a

Five

or

Charlie

Club

and the Chocolate Factory

.

With Audrey, we decided to pass on our common passion: books to our heroine.

Mini Ludvin adds to have drawn from the sources of what fascinated her when she was the age of Elfie, like the Japanese anime of

magical girls

.

“I have also been keen to give life to everyday little things, which make all the salt of a good story.

"

His drawing, full of life like Elfie, ends up taking readers, and their parents, on the path of adventure, with already two new destinations, the Luberon for volume 2, and then Alsace. , with witches' convent and Christmas market.

“I think this bus has not finished crisscrossing the roads,” concludes Arleston.

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