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Griffo and Rodolphe, the story between dog and wolf

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Griffo and Rodolphe publish “Iruene”, published by Daniel Maghen.

© Daniel Maghen editions

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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The Belgian cartoonist Griffo with the complicity of the screenwriter Rodolphe publish 

published by Daniel Maghen.

A mystical journey between the Canary Islands and Paris, past and present, dream and nightmare, mythology and history of the Guanche people.

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It's a trip between two places: Paris, and a small island in the Canary archipelago, off the coast of Morocco.

Between two eras too.

The one we live in today, and the 15th century of the Conquistadors.

It is also a story between two worlds.

The real world, and the world of dreams or nightmares, between fantasy and history with a capital H too.

On the album cover, there are two characters: a young man near the open door of his car with his back to us in the middle of the forest;

and with his eyes shining like headlights, a menacing wolf looming out of the mist.

On the cover too, two authors, of course: Griffo and Rodolphe.

After the

adaptation of 

and after the diptych

, their new album is called

and it is published by Daniel Maghen.

Griffo

and

are VMDN's guests.

Interview with

, doctor and anthropologist at the Musée de l'Homme on the Guanches of the Canary Islands by

.

Report:

 In 1931, in Paris, the colonial exhibition opens its doors.

On the sidelines of this great world event, an association of former settlers has chosen, to entertain Parisians, to bring in Kanaks, the first people of New Caledonia.

Unbeknownst to them, they will find themselves locked in an enclosure, decked out in costumes and amulets to make them more "exotic."

A true story, lived by a hundred men and women, and told by Annelise Heurtier in her latest children's novel "

", published by Casterman.

interviewed her author.

Cover of the book "Savages and men" by Annelise Heurtier © Casterman editions

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