Adrift #2

by Gregory Mardon

Overview

Gregory Mardon pays a heartfelt homage to his grandfather, who left from Northern France in the 1930s to enlist in the French Navy and went on countless globe-spanning adventures. A story full of tenderness, humor, and melancholy, told with keen insight and intimacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594656347
Publisher:	Humanoids, Inc.
Publication date:	11/15/2017
Sold by:	HUMANOIDS INC - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	58
File size:	32 MB
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Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Grégory Mardon was born in France in 1971. He studied at les Beaux-Arts and École des Métiers de l'image aux Gobelins, in Paris. In 1996 he worked on the backgrounds of the animated series Blake and Mortimer, produced by Studio Ellipse, and based on the series by Jacobs. He also drew the Last Pipo Show and Mollo and Dinozorro for Spirou Magazine. Adrift, published by Humanoids, is his first graphic novel.

Editorial Reviews

10/09/2017
French cartoonist Mardon lovingly recounts the life of his grandfather, Adolphe Hérault, in this graphic biography that shows how even the most ordinary life is extraordinary. At 16, “Dodo” resolves to leave his life working in a butcher shop in the small French town of Douai and enlist in the French navy. He sails the seas, working in the galley on board ship and getting up to assorted high jinks. Life for him and his shipmates takes a drastic turn when World War II breaks out. When France surrenders to Germany and the British give the remaining French vessels an ultimatum, Dodo ends up in North Africa. There he marries and begins a career at a bank in Tunis. Mardon shifts between his experience of Dodo and the stories that Dodo tells him, fanciful or factual; his grandfather comes off as a fun-loving guy, just the sort that might make a good pal or grandpa. Mardon’s loose black-and-white art captures Dodo’s energy and zest for life and the details that stand out in memory. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

-"Stunning."-

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