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Transperceneige, Extinctions, or the nightmare of a Humanity confined... for eternity

"The earth is ravaged by an evil that seems incurable: humanity." These are bitter words which open the second part of Extinctions, the prequel planned in thr

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Transperceneige, Extinctions, or the nightmare of a Humanity confined... for eternity

"The earth is ravaged by an evil that seems incurable: humanity." These are bitter words which open the second part of Extinctions, the prequel planned in three volumes of the exciting saga cult The Transperceneige, published in 1982.

In this graphic novel in chiaroscuro, devised by Jacques Lob, the passenger of a train (all that remains of Humanity in fact) called the Transperceneige lead for decades, a journey without a goal through the frozen earth has been devastated by a cataclysm climate. In a caste system imposed by the powerful, the struggle for survival is relentless and the revolt rumbles.

A brilliant idea that has not taken a ride nearly forty years later. Bong Joon-ho, the brilliant director of Parasite, was made into a movie in 2013 and giant Netflix broadcasts since may 25, its declension into a tv series with Jennifer Connelly.

Extinctions, of which the first volume was published in 2019 under the leadership of cartoonist history of the series Jean-Marc Rochette and writer Matz, explores the origins of the tragedy that has shaken Humanity forced to decades of wandering confined in a train. In the Face of the radicality of a group of eco-terrorists ready to accelerate the extinction of Humanity, a man struggles for the survival of his species, the billionaire chinese Zheng, the designer of the Transperceneige, a Noah's ark ultra-technology that is capable of braving the slightest obstacle. At the end of the first part, the train to the thousand and one cars launched into the race "to the search for its passengers, its cargo of survivors."

In this second volume, the events do not unfold entirely as planned and the reader is witnessing the end of the dream philanthropic of Mr. Zheng. ". The history of the train is a story of disillusionment, " said Jean-Marc Rochette. The Transperceneige is an illustration of the drift of social and human".

Radicalism of the environmentalists, guru, madman, behavior bestial or cannibalism punctuate this nightmarish journey. If in the 1980s the series was the anticipation, it is now a new dimension : "In the 1980s, the bad dream belonged to the future, at the moment I seem to be in the thick of it. There are people who have a life close to that of the Transperceneige : without a future, stuck in a compartment. Some live in a closet."

it's no wonder that the Transperceneige, comic book, science-fiction oriented towards the social and the political, queries the player about his condition. Jean-Marc Rochette, for forty years at the helm of the drawing and the scenario, has always set out to deliver the taste of the day the problems of the era.

"In Extinctions, I hang up once again the car with the real, between the climate crisis, the green more and more radical, the generalized anxiety due to the pandemic." A darkness enhanced brilliantly by the related pictorial and expressive of the artist. A graphic design to a wide range of influences, from Goya to Rembrandt, passing by the comics and the manga that has largely contributed to the Transperceneige a legend, a train that bravera time.

The box BD: decryption of Jean-Marc RochetteLe billionaire philanthropist facing the disillusion of his dream. Rochette/Matz/Casterman

"These four buttons panoramic say a lot about the drama experienced by the population. I chose this composition for its cinematic quality and its comfortable reading. I worked in particular on the position of the bubbles where the text is placed in a way the more readable.

the white of The text is highlighted to attract the reader to the story. I do not favour the design that I want as background music. This process is highly effective to illustrate the purpose of the album, which is quite dense. My composition is made according to the story.

The dead man in the first two boxes, with the killer who turns on his heel towards the horizon, shows the violence in a primary that has taken hold of Humanity. The sequence of the two boxes shows how man continues to advance with the greatest of ease, leaving without hesitation, the corpse abandoned.

The crowd as a block dehumanized

The center image highlights Mr. Zheng and Lakshmi, a rich hindu climb on that train very quickly alongside the billionaire. These are the decision makers and they require the board, by their presence, as well as by the scope of their exchange. The reader attends to the disillusionment of the philanthropist surpassed, realizes that he will not be able to save everyone. There is not enough space in the train and his humanism is proven.

As a picture cut at the cinema, the last box illustrates their words. Outside, in contrast with the two sides clearly drawn, the crowd form a block dehumanized, a mass indefinable. People behave like animals, in a panic, presenting Humanity in all it was more bestial.

My work on the color also reflects my commitment to the narrative. The warm colors of the central box are without excess in order to reproduce the lights blafardes a night train. They enhance the situation of loss in which are located the characters. In general, the colors have all the same value. None stands out from another. Finally, as a huge fan of the faces of Rembrandt in etching, I have used the method of small lines to accentuate the shadows and the contrasts."

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He just has to continue like that....
There will remain nothing of livable places on Earth, and the man, finally, will turn off...
The Earth will be...

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