Incredible! – Zabus and Hippolyte
With a title like Incredible! the authors of this graphic novel have a lot to live up to, but you’d have to say that they largely succeed. And that’s obviously no small thing. Not only does the artwork often surprise with some inventive imagery and panel layouts that can quite literally take your breath away, but the story itself is one that sets out to show us something truly incredible. Prepare to be amazed. From an outside perspective, or from anyone observing the behaviour of 11 year old Jean-Loup Beaugens, he would definitely seem to be a strange boy who acts rather oddly. He has strange little routines and rituals that govern his every move, but there’s a reason and a method to his actions that most people wouldn’t understand. Jean-Loup consequently doesn’t fit in well with the other boys, as you can imagine, but he doesn’t mind. He lives in his own little world, gathering useful facts and information about the wonders of the world that he records on little cards in a filing sys...