Trait Pour Trait - Draw and Shut Up! by Bubble

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Trait pour Trait - Draw and shut up! by Bubble

BD Comics After winning the Young Adult Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Akiko Higashimura is back with two new series! After a 4 year break, Princess Jellyfish had resumed and finished in France last year. Shortly before, Akiko Higashimura had made a surprise comeback and noticed in bookstores with her Snow Tiger published in the Black Lizard. With the publication of this series from the eclectic Hibana (Dorohedoro, Éclat(s) d'âme...), the publisher allowed a leading Japanese author to resume her rights in France. Indeed, more than 20 years after her debut, Akiko Higashimura is one of the most fashionable and prolific authors today. Accustomed to working on several titles in parallel, with various publishers and magazines, the mangaka is at the head of a substantial bibliography.

In this autumn of 2020, Akata and Le Lézard noir are releasing two of her most emblematic stories: Trait pour trait - Dessine et taire-toi! and Tokyo Tarareba Girls. In this short series (5 volumes) awarded at the Japan Media Arts Festival and the Manga Prize Taishō, the mangaka looks back on her childhood, late adolescence and early adulthood with her legendary self-mockery. Akiko Hayashi aka Akiko Higashimura delivers her work without filter and with humour. Born in 1975, she grew up in Miyazaki. Her childhood was lulled by carelessness and reading manga.

Although not very bright at school, this young girl with an oversized ego already saw her career as a mangaka all mapped out. But at the age of 16, her meeting with Kenzô Hidaka, a drawing teacher like no other, opened her eyes and challenged her certainties. Very demanding and violent, he takes care of her by making her work intensely for 8 years so that she progresses. This teacher has no pity and attacks the high school girls in his classes, and also the young children and old people from the neighbourhood who have come to sign up to discover drawing. The young Akiko is inevitably frightened, but goes to her classes anyway, because she realizes that this apparently gruff man is actually very caring and gives of himself voluntarily for the success of others.

By Rémi L.

"Stroke for stroke, draw and shut up!", by Akiko Higashimura

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16 Oct 2020 #Bandes dessinées

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