Every family has its secrets, but some are so terrible that they can end up with dire consequences, as shown The Fairy Murders, a graphic novel of infinite sadness produced by the couple Sylvie Roge and Olivier Grenson.
Doctor Thibault Duval has shared his life for more than three years with Fanny Duroy. In December 2006, his partner was getting ready to receive his twin sister and his mother for Christmas Eve, which he could not attend since he was on duty at the hospital. A few hours later, when the police contact him and inform him that they have just arrested his better half, suspected of murder, the latter is completely stunned and cannot believe that the one he affectionately calls “my angel”, may be able to do the actions for which he is accused. Through Maître Garelle, the lawyer chosen to defend her, the young woman gradually recounts the resentment, the sadness, the unspoken, and all the things buried in her for so many years that have left her behind. brought to lose her mind on Christmas Eve, and to commit the irreparable.
Album cover
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After spending more than twenty-five years in the medical field and patient support, Sylvie Roge signs a first deeply human graphic novel, and masterfully illustrated by her husband, Olivier Grenson. Although the trigger event of The Fairy Murders either a double murder, the story is much closer to the family drama than to the thriller. We discover the complicity and unfailing loyalty uniting Fanny and her sister Tania, and how psychological violence can be just as damaging for children as physical abuse when their mother, a cruel and cantankerous woman, will do everything possible. so that the twins become adversaries, bestowing affection and gifts on one at the expense of the other, under the pretext that the two girls made her lose Ralph, the man of her life and their father.
One page from the album
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The illustrations in lead pencil and watercolor by Olivier Grenson in The Fairy Murders are of great beauty, and each box of the comic book is a pure delight for the eyes. Grenson captures landscapes, such as the busy streets of Paris during the hustle and bustle of the Holidays or the bucolic beaches of Le Touquet, as well as the more intimate and dramatic moments, where one discerns all the complex emotions crossing the faces of its protagonists. . The album has a very melancholy atmosphere, supported by a faded color palette, close to old sepia photos, which brings out even more the touches of red dotting its boards, like the balls in the Christmas tree, the balloons s’ flying in the sky, the raincoats of the binoculars, the leather of the barber’s chair, or the drops of blood with which Fanny is stained during her arrest.
Although this is her very first screenplay, Sylvie Roge reveals the full extent of her talents as an author with The Fairy Murders, a comic book that achieves the feat of arousing empathy and compassion for a murderer.
The Fairy Murders, by Olivier Grenson and Sylvie Roge. Published by Le Lombard, 192 pages.
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