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Framed Poster by François Bourgeon : The Little Girl of Bois Caïman
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Framed poster by François Bourgeon: "The Little Girl of Bois Caïman"
Visual of the cover of Volume 6 of Passengers of the Wind.
Poster created in 2009 for the release of Volumes 6 and 7 of the series and the re-edition of previous volumes.
Framed under plexiglass with a smooth, flat black wooden frame with a 2.5 cm width.
Wall mounting hooks present on the back of the frame, ready to hang.
Poster dimensions: 18 x 24 cm
Total dimensions with frame: 23 x 29 cm
The Passengers of the Wind
Passengers of the Wind is a series in 9 volumes and three eras, written, drawn, and colored by François Bourgeon.
The first volume, The Girl in the Petticoat, was released in 1979. In this epic historical tale set in the 18th century, well-documented and with an adventurous spirit that captivates us from the first pages, we follow the journey of Isa, a young noblewoman whose identity has been stolen. Along her way, she meets Hoel, a sailor specialized in handling sails. The narrative of the first five volumes allows us to delve into the lives of sailors at sea, colonial power clashing with African beliefs, and slavery in the Caribbean.
This first cycle (named Cyann) was published between 1979 and 1984. The character of Isa stood out in the comic book literature of the time. Not only is she the heroine of the story, but she is also a young free woman, standing by her moral choices (her fight against slavery), her sexual choices (several panels depict her lesbian loves, which prevented the series, although published in over 20 countries, from finding a publisher in the USA), or her romantic choices.
Isa embodies a constant courage, genuine audacity, and a rare human (if not political) commitment in the comic books of the early 80s.
Furthermore, Bourgeon narrates a true historical account where he takes his characters to Fort Ouidah, where the triangular trade was booming towards the American continent, confronting us with the memory of the slaves throughout this fascinating adventure.
25 years after the end of Isa's adventures, Bourgeon takes us to Louisiana with the two volumes of the next cycle, set during the Civil War. We explore the bayous with Zabo... And also with Isa (thanks to flashbacks), concluding her story from the first cycle and understanding what happened "after Saint-Domingue"!
And how she arrived in Louisiana, pregnant with a slave (a highly improbable scenario for the time), Zabo actually being Isa's great-granddaughter (both named Isabeau in reality).
Continuing his quest for humanity amidst the turmoil of History, Bourgeon will follow up on Zabo's adventures. The first of the two volumes of Blood of the Cherries is set in Paris in 1885, during Jules Vallès' funeral.
There, she meets Klervi, a young Breton woman, and through the friendship and sharing between the two women, we discover the adventures that led Zabo from her Louisiana bayou to the uprising of the Paris Commune, to the penal colony in New Caledonia, and back to Paris where she tries to keep the spirit of the Commune alive.
A series to discover or rediscover, for its historical scope, its narrative singularity, and the beauty of its drawings, as precise as they are epic!
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BOURGEON François
François BOURGEON is a French comic book artist and writer.
Born in Paris, just after the war, his father, a journalist, destined him for medicine, but young François could only think about drawing and comic books...
He was published from the early 1970s and began his career solely as an artist, working on scripts by Henriette Bichonnier for Bayard Presse and Fleurus Presse. He then regularly published in Lisette, a weekly magazine for teenage girls, which became one of his trademarks: having a heroine as the main character in his major works.
In 1978, with a script by Pierre Dhombre, he published Maître Guillaume and the Journal of Cathedral Builders (already expressing his love for the Middle Ages) and began his first series with Robert Genin: Brunelle and Colin, of which he only contributed to the first two albums, embarking on a more personal adventure, that of the Passengers of the Wind. But already, in Brunelle, there is a hint of the future Isa. Bourgeon's style and stroke become more defined and refined.
So it was in the early 1980s that The Passengers of the Wind were born. As a writer and artist, Bourgeon made a masterstroke, immediately acclaimed by critics (he was awarded the Best Artist prize at the Angoulême Festival in 1980) and the public (each of the albums sold over a million copies in French). Additionally, the series was translated into 18 languages!
In 1984, he returned to the Middle Ages with The Companions of Twilight, which also enjoyed considerable success.
In 1993, the Cyann Cycle began, created in collaboration with Claude Lacroix. This time, Bourgeon explored the world of science fiction and provided it with incredible visual richness. This commitment to quality and research, present in all of François Bourgeon's work, is one of the strengths of the artist. Bourgeon creates complex, rich, and abundant worlds that allow readers complete and unforgettable immersion!
In 2009 and 2010, he added two volumes to the Passengers of the Wind with The Little Girl of Bois Caïman, which follows the adventures of Zabo in Louisiana during the years of the Civil War. This leap in time helps to understand what happened to Isa in Saint-Domingue, where the album The Ebony Wood left our heroine at the end of the fifth volume of the series.
Starting in 2018, Bourgeon gives a "third cycle" to the Passengers of the Wind with The Blood of Cherries, where we find Zabo, 20 years after Louisiana, in the midst of the Paris Commune, once again addressing the intricacies of the birth of democracies. Bourgeon once again takes history by the horns.