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GERRY GERONIMO

 

Pages 1 to 15 in English

Book covers

Characters

The Queen Of Clubs outfit

Sketches

Making of

The Queen Of Clubs

in 23 frames

Press Reviews
 

 

Imagination:1/Reason: 0

Mister "S"

About the characters

 

 

80 Days

 

Recent cartoons

 
Press Rerview of The Queen of Clubs
 

Third and final instalment of the psycho-political romance by Vadot and Guéret. Ultimately, it’s an

original tale on several levels. Although the story concentrates on Simon and Lisa’s psychological

development, the political metaphor remains profound. While this parallelism is sometimes difficult

for the reader to follow the series is undeniably worth the effort.
(Le Fantastique.com)

This album is so masterful that it is indeed a mature work.
(Sceneario.com)

This conclusion of a really zany romantic comedy is steeped in an admirable dreamlike quality.

The authors obviously take great pleasure in exploiting the classic conventions of graphic novels,

while inventing their own graphic and narrative style. Reread this trilogy - you won't have got to the

bottom of it the first time round!
(L'Echo du Centre)

This incredibly efficient third album is dominated by the fact that the authors never allow their imagination

to be overtaken by fantasy: the tribulations of the Glonek world are only the outer casing of a real

psycho-drama, the hallucinogenic cherry which cleverly crowns its creation.
(Bédéka)

You have get past the illustrations and the initially confusing subject of Gerry Geronimo and just read it.

Right from the first few pages you discover that this is a rich and ambitious series. After one album,

it’s straight back to the bookshop to buy the others...
(ActualBD.com)

One cannot avoid the fact that the Gerry Geronimo series is deeply disturbing. Though the start of all

of this is the end of a pretty ordinary love affair, the strange fantasies of the scenario are very original.

Despite a perfectly constructed and precise plot, the parallel presentation of romantic conflict and the

political aspect require a considerable power of concentration, even for adults.
(ToutenBD.com)

This third volume does away with any previously expressed criticism and confirms that Gerry Geronimo

is indeed a completely atypical series which deserves its place in any respectable graphic novel

collection. It is a perfect fusion of the freedom enjoyed by the creators of graphic novels and reality as

it is imposed on us by our own psyche. Better than any pile of self analysis magazines, Gerry is

melting-pot of the questions and (sometimes) answers which engulf us during certain momentous events

in our own lives: first love, love at first sight, breaking up, etc... Never before have Freudian topics been

so well (and lucidly) illustrated; never before has human psychology been scrutinised in a graphic novel

with such tenderness and foresight. Thank you.
(BDparadiso.com)

The genius of Guéret and Vadot is to have personified these four concepts - Reason, Imagination,

Subconscious and Depression - and to provide them with a veritable stage where, while having a quiet

laugh at themselves, they can enact the political life of a democratic state tortured by a huge internal

crisis as it confronts the advance of depression, an extraordinary allegory of a xenophobic party.
(BD Gest.com)
 

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