Abstract
Breakdowns : depressions, breakdowns, failures, but also deconstructions, decompositions, dismantlings. In synthesis : collapses and attempts to bind disrupted affects. We'll be talking about stylistic fragmentation, traumatic dissociations, illusions and Duke Letroud, the detective who will accompany us to decipher this album, which is as experimental as it is uncomfortable. Art has a passion for the hidden, the crypt, the opposite of a " ligne claire ". Complex cases that take time to read, understand and explore are an integral part of his work. Breakdowns pushes experimentation with form and image structure to the very limits of narrativity, to the breaking point of comprehension, or even beyond, leaving only a quasi-sensory, emotional experience of reading the plate. Breakdowns is to form what Maus (Pulitzer Prize) was to content, a visual and narrative revolution through the resonance between multiple graphic fragmentations on the one hand and family trauma on the other. This album will change the way thousands of authors and millions of readers think about comics, thanks to the stylistic, commercial, critical, academic, media and artistic revolution : the " atomic effect" of the author's traumatic side, reaching everyone, beyond the restricted and specialized world of comics.
