Decalog (cartoon)

See also: Decalog

the Decalog is a series of Cartoon created by Frank Giroud.
This series, now completed, comprises ten volumes in which took part ten different draftsmen. The publication of the albums was carried out between 2001 and 2003.
One eleventh volume " except série" also left in 2003.

Synopsis

A strange book called Nahik seems to entreat the bad fate for that which holds it. This book describes the existence of a new religious Decalog which would have been dictated by the prophet Mahomet and who would call into question the same bases of the Islam, and a term would put at the most violent interpretations of the Coran.
Who is this mysterious " Alan D." whose name is reproduced on Nahik? This Decalog is it authenticates? And which is this Fernand Desnouettes whose watercolours so precisely reproduce a mysterious scapula of camels on which the Decalog is engraved?
10 volumes through the centuries, going up towards the past, with the research of the origin of Nahik.

Analyzes

While giving like with each album a precept of the Decalog subtitles, Frank Giroud point the finger on innumerable components of mankind: violence, cupidity, the lie… Each volume perhaps read like a single history, each account putting in scene like an obviousness the strict application of this mysterious Décalogue.
But the force of this series resides on the sequence on countdown of the albums. The saga begins with Glasgow in 2001 and is completed with Médine into 622. Meanwhile, one will have attended with the Armenian genocide, the French revolution, the Campagne of Egypt, to the post-war period in Serbia… famous Nahik passes with hand in hand and fact of the victims. Each album inevitably does not stress the religious aspect of the book, it is sometimes not there refers of the whole. But the dramatic intensity which surrounds the mystery of the writing of this book increases as one approaches the vérité.
By entrusting the adaptation of its scenario to different draftsmen, Giroud could give a single tonality to each album, which is not without diverting certain readers. Moreover, the volumes are not connected in an obvious way and the reader is brought to build itself certain transitions. (One eleventh volume left thereafter putting in scene all the missing transitions).
By writing ten distinct stories which fit themselves in large a saga historical whose subject calls into question the fundamental precepts of a whole civilization, Giroud successful a turn of Master seldom equalized as regards scenario.

Characters

There is no main character, each volume telling a single history, a such one-shot. Let us quote nevertheless:
  • Alan D: Presumed author of " Nahik" , the book revealing the existence of the Decalog.
  • Fernand Desnouettes: French painter of the XVIIIe century. It painted a watercolour representing a scapula of camels on which the Decalog is engraved. Work appears in " Nahik".
  • Mahomet : prophet of Islam. In margin of Coran, it would have dictated a new Decalog calling into question all its preceding precepts.
  • Simon Broemecke: English editor, who will translate and publish illegally " Nahik" under its own name in 2001.

Albums

Between bracket, the first name is that of the draftsman, the second that of the colourist, if necessary. The eleventh volume comes to supplement certain missing transitions. This album is not necessary to the lecture.
In 2004 a Porte-folio called is also appeared Carnets of Egypt , work carried out on the initiative of the bookstore Bulle (Mans) to celebrate its 20 years and limited to 350 specimens numbered and signed by the authors.

Publication

Editors

  • Glénat : Volumes 1 to 11 (first edition of volumes 1 to 11).

See too

Giroud is also the author of two related series:
  • the Legatee (Glénat), the continuation of the " Décalogue" as from 2001.
  • Fleury-Nadal (Glénat), which puts in scene the history of a family that one meets with volumes 7 and 8 of the Décalogue .
On the starting point - very remote - of " Nahik" then of the series (the relation between Victor Hugo and of its Eugene brother reached of insanity), one can consult the correspondence of Victor Hugo: http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Correspondance_de_Victor_Hugo_-_Tome_I_-_9

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