Euro Comics: Reviews of McCay and Bear's Tooth
Episode description
Time Codes:
- 00:00:24 – Introduction
- 00:03:11 – Getting caught up!
- 00:04:05 – McCay
- 00:34:54 – Bear’s Tooth
- 01:10:58 – Wrap up
- 01:12:04 – Contact us
For their December Euro Comics show, Pascal and Derek discuss two recent French titles in translation. They begin with Thierry Smolderen and Jean-Philippe Bramanti's McCay (Titan Comics), a surreal narrative surrounding the life of comics legend Windsor McCay. But this work is not a biography. Smolderen takes historical moments in McCay's life and from those weaves a fantastical tale that includes noir intrigue, metafictional elements, and the fourth dimension. After that the guys turn to the three volumes of Yann and Alain Henriet's Bear's Tooth (Cinebook). Each of the three works -- Max, Hanna, and Werner-- is based on one of the three protagonists in this World War II tale. As Pascal reveals, Yann and Henriet's follow up to this series (not yet translated) continues the storyline, but with strange alternate history twist.