Caryl Ferey and Corentin Rouge, Blacks, Whites and Blues

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Cover of the comic strip "Sangoma, the damned of Cape Town" by Caryl Ferey and Corentin Rouge.

© Glénat editions

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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After the international success of his novel "Zulu", Caryl Ferey returns today to South Africa, but in comics, this time, and with the complicity of Corentin Rouge who had signed the series "Rio".

An action thriller, a family saga, power struggles and ancestral traditions against the backdrop of a still very present Apartheid.  

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It's an action thriller that is going at a hell of a pace, with a cop who is seductive at will and sufficiently looser and borderline to chain disasters.

A story on the line, which mixes politics, family secrets, sex and witchcraft in a South Africa where the scars of Apartheid are still gaping.

Thirteen years after the success of his novel "Zulu" which already took us to southern Africa, and seven years after his first comic book script for the "Maori" diptych,

jubilant scriptwriting is

allied to the line. with a furiously realistic drawing by

, which plunges us successively into the beauty of the vines, the hot and burnt nights, and the violence of the townships.

“Sangoma, the damned of Cape Town”, by Caryl Ferey and Corentin Rouge, has been published by Glénat editions.

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