Peter Kujawinski

Dans le Londres de l'époque Victorienne, les aventures réinventées du célèbre petit faune des jardins de Kensington. Superbe, tant par la virtuosité du dessin, que par l'intelligence du scénario. Un grand classique.

Hiver 1887, Londres… Le froid, la faim, et la misère étaient réunis pour peaufiner le décor…

Fantasía. El Peter Pan de Loisel es una recreación libre del relato clásico de J.M. Barrie, que en vez de adaptar la historia realiza una recreación de los personajes, una especie de "precuela" de la historia clásica original que ya conocemos todos (la mayoría a través de la versión infantilizada de Disney o por la posterior "secuela" en el Hook de Steven Spielberg).

It is clear from the first panel that Loisel has no interest in giving us a white-washed narrative: ’London… cold, hunger and misery merge to set the scene…’ It’s a Dickensian nightmare. The houses are cramped, the streets are full of cynical, selfish people and all is awash in the ordure of poverty. While it’s clear that they all suffer together, there is precious little sense of community. The Londoners prey upon each other like rats in a cobble-stoned coffin. The single factor connecting the adult world and that of the young is a gnawing hunger to escape. So, we come to Peter, a ragged child holding forth to a group of orphans in a tiny yard. When we first meet him, his only magic lies in his words, transporting the children with marvelous stories of far away places and warming their hearts with the ‘words of tenderness’ he claims his mother whispers to him. (That damned harpy!) His struggle to maintain innocence in a tawdry world is heart-breaking, and renders the book firmly in the arena of adult reading. Loisel does an excellent job of portraying the darkness and terror of the adult world from a prepubescent perspective, in imagery, language and inference - laying down the psychological tracks that lead to Peter’s perpetual childhood in Neverland. This is not a world for children.

Regis Loisel inauguró con Peter Pan un nuevo estilo narrativo basado en los sentimientos y la emoción, y se consolidó como un autor imprescindible. Desde que Loisel empezó a tomar apuntes para esta monumental obra hasta que publicó el último tomo, pasaron casi veinte años por la dedicación y mimo que puso en cada viñeta. La historia arranca en los bajos fondos de Londres en 1887. Peter Pan es hijo de una prostituta alcohólica que le maltrata. Entonces conoce a Campanilla y emprende su primer viaje a Nunca Jamás…

The first volume of PETER PANZERFAUST, the critically acclaimed reimagining of the Peter Pan story set in the backdrop of World War II France. Peter leads a band of orphans in their desperate attempt to escape the city of Calais as the Nazi army presses its advance deeper into the country. With impossible odds against them, the Lost Boys survive a series of dangerous adventures on their road to Paris, and to freedom. Collects issues #1-5.