SCHAPPI

Make no mistake, we are a long way from 30 Million Friends or stories of Babar the Elephant! Even if the animals want us to believe that they entered politics to defend the rights of species and the living well together, nothing has changed. Nobody cares about the fate of the fish, hyenas are pushed aside, cheetahs continue to attack ostriches with impunity and snakes end up anyway eat mice. Only weasels are sad about it. Fortunately, SCHAPPI, a collection of animal short stories, brings together all these wonderful people in large full-page illustrations in shimmering colors where each scene is described by a line of text in the style of children's books. What if Man seems to be definitively excluded from this animal kingdom, it is aped in its slightest faults by this humanized fauna which gives us a spectacle tender and scathing parody of human society, in the style of La Fontaine's Fables 2.0. All deliciously packaged by Anna Haifisch, undisputed queen of the alternative comic strip, which does not hesitate to give the title to this new book, the name of a brand of dog food.