The Bar of the old French

the bar of old French is a series of two volumes of cartoon. An integral version left in 1999. This cartoon is published by the Dupuis editions in the free collection Aire.

These two men already collaborated for various productions of cartoons like the Bahamas in the editions Albin Michel in 1988; or Bullwhite in 1989 always at Albin Michel.

Synopsis

Plunged right in the middle of the desert, a bar. Meeting place of the no share, old French there settled and spends its time telling stories with the people of passage. Accustomed, like his/her old friend Mehmed, know them by heart, not knowing to make the balance between the truth and the imaginary one of the stories of this atypical man. But the things changed since two children, one year before, made a halt in this bar. Consequently this man thinks only of their return.

Indeed Leila and Célestin saw their ways crossing in this bar by the chance of the life. Each one of them followed their road, more or less wandering, in search of something; a search towards them even. Their meeting fixed for each one of them a new departure. They set out again of the bar together, seizing an opportunity which given them on the roads of the life. After having spent a few days together with Tangier, their roads separated again, to finish what they had respectively undertaken before their meeting with old French.

But these a few days theirs had made discover an attachment to which one and the other held more than all. This is why they decided that this bar, which had marked a turning for each one of them, would be the place where they would be continuously attached. Their address with them, or they were written during their separation, and where they would be found to trace their future…

Albums

  • Volume 1: the bar of old French
    • 1st edition in May 1992
    • 2 Nd edition in May 2003
  • Volume 2: the bar of old French
    • 1st edition in June 1993, as well as an special edition, for the booksellers and specialists, drawn with 750 specimens.
    • 2 Nd edition in May 2003

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