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Do you like real stories? Well, you are going to be served with three excellent albums that have just been released: “Nelly Bly”, “Chaplin, Prince of Hollywood” and the highly anticipated “Fukushima”.
Fukushima, chronicle of an endless accident
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This March 11, 2021, it will be precisely ten years since a terrible earthquake off the coast of Japan triggered a tsunami that struck the Fukushima nuclear power plant. Ten years later, the images of this dramatic event are still remembered and it remains the biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. In “Fukushima”, Bertrand Galic and Roger Vidal retrace the way in which the employees of the plant experienced this incident. For this, they relied on the hearing of Masao Yoshida, the director of the site. For nearly 120 pages and through a breathtaking narrative, the reader experiences the first days of the tragedy from within. When reading this album, it’s impossible not to think of the “Chernobyl” series as there are so many similarities. The reality is sometimes stronger than the fiction and we come out completely stunned by this very documented story.
“Fukushima”, by Galic and Vidal, Glénat editions, 128 pages, € 18.5
Chaplin, prince d’Hollywood
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At the start of the 2019 school year, Laurent Seksik and David François had embarked on an ambitious project: retracing the tumultuous life of Charlie Chaplin. It will be long overdue, but the second part of this triptych is finally available. In the first volume, we discovered the first steps of this young English actor in the United States at the beginning of the 1910s. This second volume focuses more on the private life of Charlot with the loss of his son, his shattering divorces and his taste for very young women. We discover the genesis of great films like “The Kid”, “The Gold Rush” and “The Circus”, but also how Chaplin was confronted with the arrival of talking cinema. The extravagant drawing of David François is sometimes a little unsettling but it brings a touch of madness and offers some large magnificent plates. It will now be necessary to show patience to discover the continuation and the end of the adventures of Chaplin since the third and last will probably not be released before 2022.
“Chaplin – t.2: Prince d’Hollywood”, by Seksik and François, rue de Sèvres editions, 70 pages, € 17
Nellie Bly, ten days in an asylum
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The Karma collection was launched at the end of summer 2020 with the aim of highlighting people, who have sometimes been forgotten by history and who, through their actions, have changed society in its foundations and its achievements. “Radium Girls” had fulfilled this goal in a masterly way, “Nellie Bly” is equally powerful and successful. Virginie Ollagnier tells the story of this woman who, in 1887 in New York, pretended to be a madwoman to be interned at the Blackwell asylum, located on the island of the destitute, prisoners, madmen and women. poor. For ten days, she discovers horror there. But Nellie Bly had a good reason to pretend to be crazy with amnesia. The investigation by this 23-year-old pioneer of investigative journalism succeeded in making things happen. This story, superbly drawn by Carole Maurel, pays a magnificent tribute to Nellie Bly. To discover urgently!
“Nellie Bly, In the den of madness”, by Ollagnier and Maurel, Glénat editions, 176 pages, € 22
