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Carton in bookstores translated into more than twenty languages, the series of comic strips "The Arab of the future" could count in total six volumes, says his draftsman, Riad Sattouf, which is the object, at 40 years only, of a exhibition at the Pompidou Center.
"I have a passion: to make comics legible for people who know nothing about it.It's my creed," says the perfectionist who juggles between the adaptation in TV pellets of his character Esther (on Canal + ) and the writing of the saga to success.
"I think it will be six volumes," he told AFP, about "The Arab of the future".
The first three volumes of the family saga have sold more than 1.5 million copies. The release in September of the 4th volume (denser than the previous ones) was an event, especially since it tells about "the family secret which is the black hole around which gravitates the whole series". After opening this blacker chapter, the draftsman aims for a publication "normally in 2019" of the following volume.
"I'm often asked the question, how do you draw, what technique do you use, were you really blond, was your village (in Syria) like that?", He says. 'a meeting.
So many answers to which the exhibition "Riad Sattouf, the handwriting" at the library of the Pompidou Center in Paris, tries to answer (until March 11). There are collected original drawings and photos of the designer.
"In this conflict of loyalty that I had as a child (between a Breton mother and a Syrian father, ed), I chose another identity, that of people who make books, comics," he says. Also, "when I meet a Japanese designer, I feel closer to him than to my baker".
If he did not participate in the setting up of the exhibition, Riad Sattouf is delighted that his readers can know his work and his influences (Hergé, Sempé, Goscinny …)
"When I write my scripts, the text and the image arrive at the same time, the comic strip is a language, I try to read it as best as possible, like Hergé, a reference in the fluidity of reading", emphasizes there. With Sempé and Goscinny, fathers of the little Nicolas, he says to share the taste of the characters of children or teenagers.
"The point of view of the child helps to dramatize the enormities of the world," said the one who, with the character of Esther, closely follows the daily life of a girl from 9 to 18 years (she for the moment 14).
"It's the project: to witness the construction of its moral values, to see how it looks at the world, how society influences it, how brands reach it," he says. But no question of moralizing in his books. "I let the reader make his opinion," he concludes.
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