BORIS The POTATO CHILD (Anne Simon) HC

Description

In her latest graphic novel, French artist and
illustrator Anne Simon returns to her visually and
allegorically rich fantasyland.
Boris, the round-headed child, reigns like a despot in the little
house he lives in with his mother. His mother, Bulle, formerly
known as Aglaia, was once the all-powerful queen of the country
Marylene. Since Marylene’s fall, residents have lived in peace
thanks to a self-governing system they have adopted. But when
Boris meets Sabine, a warrior French fry thirsty for revenge, nothing
will ever be the same …
The final book in Anne Simon’s “Tales of Marylene ” graphic
novel trilogy (after The Song of Aglaia and Empress Cixtisis), Boris the
Potato Child delivers a bitter critique of our consumerist impulses
and abuses. Mixing literature and pop culture (such as mashing Simone
de Beauvoir with the Beatles), Simon has created in Marylene a
world as abundant in visual imagination as Oz or Narnia, but crafted
with a Swiftian pen that’s mightier than any man’s sword.
anne simon lives in Paris and studied art in the internationally renowned comics
city of Angouleme, France.