Quai des Bulles, the original colour drawing accompanied by its preparatory sketch for the official poster for the Quai des Bulles comics festival in Saint-Malo, in November 1993. The actual poster was printed in a 40cm x 57cm format.The scene dreamt up by Will represents a mermaid blowing soap bubbles, on each of which sits one of his best-known characters: Isabelle, Calendula, Uncle Hermès, Tif and Tondu. In the back-ground, we see Saint-Malo itself, birthplace of Robert Surcouf, with its famous ramparts awaiting visitors under a blue, blue sky...This is how Philippe Vandooren, editorial director of Dupuis and editor-in-chief of Journal Spirou, describes Will in an interview he gave with Rudi Miel: “What a good designer! What a keen sense of balance and elegance. (...) And I don’t propose to talk here about those young women whose mysterious beauty and grace we all know so well; nor about Isabelle, that wonderful series where the artist’s graphic imagination reaches such extraordinary heights; nor about the transparency and magical freshness of his waterco-lours; nor about the other many superb creations whose reproduc-tion would fill several books” (Will Collection privée, 1995).In the same tribute work, Sirius, creator of Timour and the Epervier Bleu, emphasised that “Willy has a feeling for colour. I don’t know many artists who are as talented in that way as he is: his plates in direct colour are splendid.”