Succès, mode d'emploi

Finnish comic book author Ville is on the cusp of a successful career. of promises. He has just published his first stories and is enjoying a small fame in his country, ... but now he only dreams of France. France : stronghold of comics, reservoir of authors he admires, the Eldorado for any talented artist! The day one of the most popular and influential French authors proposes a collaboration for a major publisher, Ville believes he sees his dream become reality. Happiness and success are his! He rushes to Paris where, Between the language barrier, abstruse decorum and repeated false steps, he will quickly become disillusioned... It took Ville Ranta some perspective and a good dose of self-mockery to tell the story the adventures of a man who is very much like him, a young author in search obsessive of great publisher and success. With such commendable honesty that disconcerting, the Finn puts his scathing humor at the service of a story which hides nothing of the extremely complex links between creation and the market, while painting, in passing, a vitriolic portrait of the world of publishing and French comic strip community.