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Alexandre Clérisse, the power of drawing, a paper opera

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Alexandre Clérisse publishes his comic book “Flying Leaves” with Dargaud editions © Dargaud editions

By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

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Alexandre Clérisse tells the stories of three characters from different eras, between the Middle Ages, the 90s, and the end of the 21st century.

Three destinies driven by the same desire to create.

Three graphic atmospheres that bring Alexandre Clérisse's passion for drawing to life in colour.

From dream to reality.

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Alexandre Clérisse is an author who likes to play with eras, with characters, with readers too.

In his new album, he gives it to his heart's content: whether it's with a teenager from the 90s, with a copyist monk from the 15th century or with a young designer from 2070. We pass cheerfully from one world to another. , from an old abbey undergoing renovation to a comic strip festival on the Moon, from a dark dungeon to a trendy restaurant, from a child's room to a virtual reality room.

Between 1990 and 2070, passing through the Middle Ages and the invention of the printing press, Alexandre Clérisse - in a colorful story that looks like a dizzying tale, which juggles between fiction and reality, between yesterday, today and tomorrow - pays a vibrant tribute to the universal force of drawing and image, from medieval illumination to the graphic palette, from watercolor to virtual.

He talks to us about his childhood pleasure which has become a profession, author of comic strips, moved by the desire and the pleasure of dreaming and imagining, of inventing and telling, of sharing and transmitting.

"Flying Leaves", by

is published by Dargaud editions.

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