This one was long in the making! Written by Valérie and me, drawn by me and coloured by Valérie with Diana Cammarano, "The Nights Of Luna" #1 is finally out!
We worked on this album with the idea of developing a plausible story built around real people in a real world, just doing dumb stuff on social networks... until it spills over into their everyday lives to cause all kinds of mess. The story follows a young Italian girl, Luna, whose erotic fantasies grow bigger and bigger in contrast to her relatively uneventful and flat-lined existence. Desperate to vent out her awaken sexuality without real risks, she starts posting faceless nude selfies on an adult website. But, she does it extremely carelessly...
The dual nature of this story, built between Luna's out of proportion fantasies on one side and reality on the other, allowed us to work at the same time on massive, surreal scenes while remaining anchored to ordinary life of a modern day Rome. This was probably the most interesting aspect of the whole experience from the graphic standpoint, but also narratively, as we tried to blend Luna's rampant imagination with her everyday surroundings into one fluid "universe".
"The Nights Of Luna" was published by Dynamite/La Musardine and we collaborated closely with the editor Nicolas Cartelet who deserves a good chunk of credit for this album being as it is in its final version.
