Miss Maggy

Lewis Trondheim is newly arrived in its 50th year and the list of his works is so long that the album did not bother to offer us. This is an album in 46 boards, you should not take the risk of double pagination too few texts ... The most difficult, probably, is to identify a month in the last 20 years during which nothing n 'appeared (or was republished) on behalf of Lewis Trondheim Lewis also ... A good "franchouille" because it is a pseudonym of a "name of ploome".

Younger, the designer Stéphane Oiry is, in comparison, an illustrious unknown, although his work in wikipedia article cites some of his works that will be forgiven to have all missed connections ... "Anyway", since we are transported across the Channel ...

Trondheim has emerged his "Harrap's Shorter" (not much, not long) to take us to follow Maggy London, a brave "Thirty-something" unemployed who through interposed relations, found a secretarial job at a private dick apparently crappy. Apart from taxing cigarettes to his boss, Maggy will try to make himself useful while he recovers from having demolished the portrait.

Between two sessions of drag at the local pub, Maggy will end up in Brighton, on the beach on a winter day. No risk of cross Fatboy Slim, Then. Neither a fight between Mods and Teds. For we are in 2014. For sure (s) he could definitely very cold ...

There in this album an unprecedented climate (for me, so there is a certain margin of error) in the French comics. Blake & Mortimer it is not. If the drawings rather put us in a very British atmosphere, Trondheim made little effort to immerse ourselves in the language bath that goes with it. He is a French pun on "thorn" and "scarf" (hmmmm ...). He told one of his characters semi comatose "Por ... Port .... Rrrrr" and Maggy thinks thereby to family names like "Porter, Portwood" etc. It was "wallet" that should interfere. There may be humor in there, but I did not pick it.

That said, I liked, and although the story cliffhanger loop without a Volume 2 is promised to us since this book is number 1.