Cyril Pedrosa publishes an experimental graphic novel made with Taiyo Matsumoto
The French cartoonist known for "L'Âge d'or" discusses "Nanbanjin," a collaboration with the Japanese mangaka telling of a Portuguese sailor's transformation among sixteenth-century Japanese villagers.
Cyril Pedrosa, the French comics author best known for "L'Âge d'or," has published "Nanbanjin," an album made jointly with the Japanese mangaka Taiyo Matsumoto, according to an interview published by Le Monde. The book follows the rebirth of a Portuguese sailor who comes into contact with Japanese villagers in the sixteenth century.
In the interview, titled "Dans ma bulle," Pedrosa describes the project as experimental, built from a cross-language, cross-tradition collaboration between a French auteur associated with literary bande dessinée and one of Japan's leading manga artists.
L'altérité se réduit aujourd'hui, c'est d'une tristesse infinie.
Cyril Pedrosa, in Le Monde
That remark, on the shrinking space for genuine encounters with otherness, frames the book's premise: a European stranded among people whose language and customs he does not share, forced into a slow process of mutual discovery. The interview does not detail further plot points, format or publication specifics beyond identifying the collaboration and its historical setting.
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