Froid Équateur, Tome 3
Page 45
lot 46
Coloured inks on paper
42 x 32 cm ( 16,54 x 12,6 in )
Editor Humanoides Associés
Signed bottom right
id. 6997
Froid Equateur (Cold Equator) is the third part of the Nikopol trilogy and came out in the last quarter of 1992, following La Foire aux Immortels (The Carnival of Immortals), published in 1980, and La Femme piège (The Woman Trap), which appeared in 1986.In an interview conducted in 1994, Bilal commented: ?I?d certainly say that Cold Equator is the most accomplished of my albums. It?s a mixture of things: it?s absolutely typical of my comic-book work, but it also involves an understanding of cinematic writing. It?s a disconcerting album for conventional readers precisely because it disrupts the familiar fluidity of the traditional comic book. (...) I felt some really good vibes with this album at times. It?s less graphic than the two previous ones but, in the end, that wasn?t what I was after. What I wanted to do was to play with the narrative...?(in Sapristi ! no. 29, A. Ledoux et O. Maltret, 4th quarter 1994)