A Package from France

I met a friend for coffee this morning at Mishka’s (I don’t consider myself an expert in coffee but this European-style coffee shop seems to serve the best cappuccino in Davis). When I got home a book had arrived from Paris, a comic about climate change which has been assigned in my Comix Activism class. (The assigned book is actually an English translation but a quick bit of research revealed that the author was French, had interviewed multiple climate change scientists for the book who were also all French, so I decided to get a copy. In French.)

This is the kind of comic I’d like to write, though I shudder at the long, long hours it must have taken him, years even. Although I find the type treatment a bit fussy for a language with so many diacritics and (still) dislike zipatone screens, the art is gorgeous. So far, it’s very readable and engaging. (Love the opening sentence of Flaubert’s Salammbô being quoted on page 2.)