January 1914. A crime has occurred familistère Guise, near St. Quentin. We found the body of Aristide Latouche, a worker, murdered in the gardens of the plant. When we discover a month later the corpse of the widow Granger in the pool, familistériens beginning to look like china dogs. Who dares to attack members of the community? While police have cordoned off quickly think the case by arresting a suspect, the journalist Victor Leblanc Humanity will conduct its own investigation, aided by a young named familstérienne Ada.
But really, what's the familistère? In 1846, Jean-Baptiste Godin, a former worker who became an engineer and who made his fortune in the heating and appliances, moved to Guise to found a factory that employs over 300 employees. In 1859, he launched the construction of the Social Palace, a complex of buildings to house the workers. The complex includes, in addition to housing and the factory, a school, nursery, shops, gardens and pool. Mostly, people are owners of the Palace as a collective whole familistère. Profits from the company each year are redistributed to familistériens or invested to improve their living environment. The draft Godin is a kind of social utopia realized. In 1914, familistère has nearly 1,500 inhabitants, on the threshold of war, tensions are palpable among working ...
Hautière Francis and pay homage to their region (Picardy) and an incredible social and industrial project In the late 19th century. Life in familistère is masterfully restored: the promiscuity, the solidarity that was falling apart over the political events in the country, distrust of familistériens against outside world ... all was not rosy in this community so special. And rather than engaging in a purely educational comic tells the story of the Social Palace, they preferred morning their own plot of the thriller elements. And this choice works because the murders and the investigation of the journalist is not an excuse to avoid the side sometimes school documentary. The killer's motivations and understand each other perfectly in this little story is very finely Great thought.
For drawings, David Francis has modeled throughout the site in 3D with familistère special software, which allowed him to maintain the proportions of buildings from one box to another. The characters and details are done on paper and then scanned before being integrated into the virtual set. It is from this that the first jet printed ink is traditionally performed before a computer-assisted colorization. This gives the final graph ambience dark gray textures and a little dirty that match the industrial landscape familystery the low sky of Picardy and the troubled times in which events take place.
If we had sought in this comic any affiliation, should look on the side of Maurice Leblanc or more probably in the Rouletabille Gaston Leroux. Anyway, here's a great opportunity to discover an unknown part of our social heritage, a time when utopia was not an empty word.
brick and blood , Regis Hautière and David Francis, KTSR, 2010. 146 pages. 16 euros.
The more info: Hautière Regis and David Francis collaborated for the first time in 2006. In The Strange Case of the lifeless body (Package editions), they acted out the hunt for a serial killer in 1898 in a provincial town. The book is now out of print but is still easy to find used.
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