![]() ![]() You never know with de Crecy what turn a story will take. ![]() Charming images and moments combine with shocking frightening scenes. The publisher describes The Celestial Bibendum as follows:ĭe Crecy’s comics are mysterious concoctions where anthropomorphic animals interact with humans, mixing fantasy, absurd humour and realism with breathtaking classically styled illustration. ![]() From the excerpts that I’ve seen, de Crecy’s artwork in The Celestial Bibendum is in a similar style to the author’s gorgeous graphic novel, Foligatto (with script by Alexios Tjoyas), which was printed in English in Heavy Metal (vol. Having been published first in three-volumes in French, and then in a collected edition in French, and most recently in an expensive, oversized, limited, slip-cased edition in English - an edition so limited that the book appears to have sold out before it was even published in fact, when it’s all said and done, I doubt a single copy will have made it to a bookstore shelf - Nicholas de Crecy’s The Celestial Bibendum will at long last appear in a single 200-page hardcover volume in English (ISBN-10: 0861661753 ISBN-13: 978-0861661756) from British publisher Knockabout in May 2012. ![]()
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