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Contre La Bande Dessinée

Jochen Gerner

Basically, this is a joke study of comics, a satire of a very academic view of comics and graphic novels. I like the simplicity, the beautiful graphics, and the absurd systematic quality he brings to things, like a page in which he lists all sound effects available to a writer of comics. Three pages in fact, and they’re French sound effects, which are different to ours.