Les Ignorants: Story of a Mutual Initiation (Paperback)

• Author: ÉTIENNE DAVODEAU
• Publisher: Futuropolis
• Language: French
• Publication date: 06/2024
• Number of pages: 267
• Dimensions: 20 x 15 cm
• Weight: 490g
• Format: Pocket
• ISBN: 9782754844420

Introduction:

Étienne Davodeau is a comic book author who knows very little about the world of wine. Richard Leroy is a winemaker who has almost never read a comic book.
But these two are full of goodwill and curiosity. Why choose to devote one's life to writing and drawing books or producing wine? How and for whom are they made?

For more than a year, to answer these questions, Étienne went to work in the vineyards and in Richard's cellar, who, in return, immersed himself in the world of comic books. They opened many bottles and read quite a few books. They traveled around, meeting authors and winemakers passionate about their profession.

Étienne Davodeau bets that there are as many ways to make a book as there are to produce wine. He observes that both have this necessary and precious power to bring people together.

This is the joyful account of a mutual initiation that you will find in les Ignorants.

The Author:

Étienne Davodeau was born in 1965 and lives in Anjou. In 1985, after studying fine arts in Rennes, and the creation of the Psurde comic book studio, he publishes the trilogy Les Amis de Saltiel with Dargaud, then Le Constat. Then, with Delcourt, Quelques Jours avec un menteur, Le Réflexe de survie, and three crime novels: La Gloire d'Albert, Anticyclone and Ceux qui t'aiment. In 2001 he creates Rural !, a true reportage, where he confirms his choice—rare in comic books—to place the real world at the heart of his work.

He is also interested in children's comic books (he writes the script for Les Aventures de Max & Zoé, drawn by Joub). He creates, with David Prudhomme on art, the comic book adaptation of Georges Brassens' unique and little-known novel, La Tour des miracles. After publishing in the “Aire Libre” collection Chute de vélo (Specialized Booksellers' Prize 2005), he returns to the reportage-documentary with Les Mauvaises Gens, which receives the 2005 Grand Prix of the Critics, the France Info Prize, then in Angoulême the Best Script Prize and the Public Prize. Finally, with Kris, he puts into images in Un homme est mort the workers' demonstrations in Brest in 1950, which wins the France Info Prize.