Elie

"Michel Crespin is a comic book author who died too soon. Talented and today too little known, he was from the Hautes-Alpes, near Champsaur, a country where nature is omnipresent, and beautiful, so beautiful... Michel Crespin draws it marvelously well. His stories very often take place in the landscapes that surround him. His first published book, Marseil, appeared in 1979 after a few publications in Métal Hurlant. Then come two series of comics, Armalite 16 (4 titles from 1980 to 1987) and Troubadour (3 strands from 1991 to 1993), numerous illustration works, in particular for committed causes (groups against nuclear power, Greenpeace, Amnesty International , aid to convicts, the Innu, the children of the estates...) will complete his work as well as a free adaptation of Faust. Set against the backdrop of the Hautes-Alpes mountains, the Armalite 16 albums tell of the resistance of a group of young mountaineers against a totalitarian invader in a post-atomic world.

I invite you today to discover Elie, a manga published by Kodansha in Japan then by Casterman in France. Very accessible, Elie tells a tender and moving childhood story. The initiation of a young boy living in the mountains. An economy of words and splendid images, the drawing is formidable. Michel Crespin defined himself as a "teller of drawn stories". For him, nature is more talkative than men."