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Of course, it’s probably not hard to be an artist when you grow up in the idyllic French countryside.
Throughout the book, the painter describes his evolving process. “My technique stumbles between careful precision and spontaneous feeling,” he explains at one point. “For me, a painting has to be something pleasant, joyous and beautiful.”
I especially loved one wordless four-panel page at the book’s climax where the creative team of Eddy Simon and Jak Lemonnier bring the French countryside to life – it’s a similar technique to that used by our own Jeff Lemire in his Essex County.