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56 pp.
| North-South |
September, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-0-7358-4135-2$17.95
(1)
K-3
Merveille cleverly captures the essential French film character Monsieur Hulot in every episode of this collection of short, largely wordless, comic-strip vignettes. Hulot longs to be a hero--an astronaut, a dashing lover, a gun-toting outlaw--but somehow his feats of derring-do end up being more mundane. Merveille pays homage to the films, but these are newly minted mini-dramas.
Reviewer: Sarah Ellis
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