La couleur des choses

La couleur des choses – Simon, a pudgy 14-year-old English boy, is constantly teased by the youngsters in his neighborhood, who recruit him for all sorts of chores. One day, while shopping for a fortune teller, she tells him who the winners of the prestigious Royal Ascot horse race will be. Simon secretly bets all of his father’s savings on one horse and wins over 16 million pounds. But when he returns home, he finds his mother in a coma and the police tell him that his father has disappeared… Being a minor, Simon cannot cash in his betting ticket. To do so, and to find out what happened to his mother, he must find his father. At the end of an adventure full of adventures and surprises, Simon, the eternal loser, will become a very resourceful kid.

La couleur des choses challenges the habits of comic book readers; the book is entirely drawn in a bird’s eye view without perspective and all the characters are represented as colored circles. The story oscillates between comedy and thriller with a surprising graphic technique, mixing architecture, computer graphics and pictograms galore, which make this very graphic novel a surprising and captivating book.