Tonight is a nightmare

a colorful journey to the land of dreams and nightmares...a work of incredible wealthNicole Claveloux talks to us about the cult of performance, of link between the artist and his work and the importance of listening to one's emotions. What goes on in Nicole Claveloux's head when she falls asleep? There is First Loïc Lalune, the set designer of imagination, Lili and Zizi Frisson specialists in sensations or even Madame Reine Bancale, expert in memory in charge of the archives and of course the Grand Director, Nicole Claveloux herself. But one fine night Charles Chaposec arrives, head of the discernment department of the “Logic and Reason” department, a rigid man who wants to carry out a management audit in the dream sector. And it is and so our merry band embarks onMore than forty years after its latest comic strip, Nicole Claveloux returns to service and delivers. Juggling brilliantly between different styles of narration, the artist plays with the limits of the frame, distorts the speech bubbles and calls for asides with the reader to play the mise en abyme. She has lost none of her taste for the baroque and His design retains the impact and strangeness that made his reputation. characters, all present in the narrator's brain, each represent a part of the human personality. Through them, while retaining its characteristic feature particular filled with mischievous humor and dreaminess, she offers with this book an ode to imagination and fantasy, and in passing opens a real reflection on creation and the profession of artist.