[18+] Les Nuits De Luna T1

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. 

It can be acquired in French (hardcover printed version or Kindle) and English (Kindle).

KrineinBD review

Ernest Magazine review 

Updates 11/20

It's been quite a while since my last post, so - fortunately! - a lot of new stuff to talk about. 

I spent a better part of these last two years working on "Histoire de France en bande dessinée", a series of hardcover volumes published by Hachette in collaboration with Le Monde, for which I drew two full albums and a number of covers. I entered this project through Makma Studio and enjoyed a lot working with them, so big big cheers to Mathieu Auverdan, Edmond Turriol and the rest of the gang. 

My first album for this series was about the tragic figure of Louis XV, often overshadowed by both his predecessor (Roi Soleil, Louis XIV) and successor (Louis XVI, mostly famous for ending his days under the guillotine), but as it turns out "the fifteen" was quite a fascinating character himself, very dark and burdened king with some brilliant intuitions but also several absurd decisions bordering on political suicide. 

The second volume I illustrated deals with industrial revolutions in France, so a lot of crazy mechanisms and machines, Jules Verne and an overall steam-punkish atmosphere to it, I really liked working on that one and would love to go back to this Vernesque airs sometime soon. 

Also, I did the cover pencil for "Le Mystère des 3 Ave" (Signe) and, finally, 2021. should see the release of the first album from "Les Nuits de Luna", an erotic series I've been working on with the writer & colorist Valérie.