To The Last Page

I really enjoyed Lewis Tronheim’s Bourbon Island 1730 , the versatile writer of the Lapinot series, autobiographical strips and long-running Donjon/Dungeon unconventional heroic fantasy series turning his hand to longer-form historical fiction with wonderful results and still retaining his own blend of absurdist humour. His anthromorphised characters don’t suit every story that the prolific writer creates, so often he enlists or is teamed up with other artists, collaborating with the greats of the French indie scene like Blutch, Sfar, Blain and Larcenet among others on the various Donjon series spin-offs. The same principle applies to his work on lighter mainstream comedy series, and for the historical spy comedy Venezia created in 1999, Trondheim’s witty, twisty espionage plotting benefits from the elegant, dynamic cartoonish artwork of Fabrice Parme. The series appears to only have run to two standard French 48-page volumes – both are collected together for this eBook edition fro...