News Summary

• Paris-based comic book author Louise Laborie ’s illustrated worlds ooze with quiet sadness.
• The creator of the graphic novels Rock’n’roll Suicide and Morgane Fox is an expert in adapting a cozy melancholic Americana.
• Inspired by a road trip she did along the Blues Highway from Chicago to New Orleans, Louise’s purgatorial stories don’t just match our inner worlds.
• They are an homage to a 100 years of art about loneliness and displacement in America, from John Steinbeck and Edward Hopper to David Lynch and Lynda Barry.