The Adventures of Jodelle
(By Guy Peellaert)
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Originally serialized in the satirical French magazine Hara-Kiri and subsequently released as a very early adult graphic novel by the legendary French comics publisher Eric Losfeld, The Adventures of Jodelle (written by Pierre Bartier) melded the bold compositional skills of a top pop-art-era draftsman with a unique sensitivity to the comics medium.
Jodelle, a satirical spy adventure set in an Asterix-style anachronistic Cesarepoch fantasy Rome featuring both billboards and vampires, was published in English in 1967 by Grove Press, whose legendary editor-in-chief Richard Seaver also provided the translation.
Jodelle will be restored and re-colored digitally to improve on the original's sometimes shaky color separations, as well as re-translated and re-lettered, and will feature a major analytical/contextual essay by the French art and comics critic and historian Pierre Sterckx (Tintin Schizo; René Magritte: The Empire of Images) discussing the work and its historical context -- plus a huge selection of never-before-seen archival art reproductions, sketches, photographs, etc. It will be printed as a lush, oversized hardcover, in a way that highlights the eye-popping, psychedelic color.”
