The companions of the dawn

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The companions of the twilight ( French: Les Compagnons du crépuscule ) is a three-part comic series by François Bourgeon . The first volume of the cycle was published in 1984.

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During the Hundred Years' War three people become unwilling companions through the rigors of time on their way through a country shaken by war and epidemics. Mariotte, the girl with the second face, and the young man Anicet, who always hangs his little coat in the wind, follow the creepy "knight without a face" because otherwise they would be lost alone. Slowly, after many adventures and acquaintances with other companions, you get to know each other better. A mysterious and eerie story with many small excursions into the spiritualistic-mythological unfolds. When the small troop finally lands in the town of Montroy, fate takes its inexorable course.

Publications

The three albums were released in February 1984 ( Le sortilege du bois des brumes ), September 1986 ( Les yeux d'etain de la ville glauque ) and May 1990 ( Le dernier chant des Malaterres ) by the Belgian publisher Casterman . In addition, an accompanying volume was published in January 1992 with the title Dans le Sillage des Sirènes . The three albums in German with the titles Im Zauber des Nebelwaldes , The Three Eyes of the Blue-Green City and The Festival of Fools were released by Carlsen Verlag between February 1986 and June 1990 . A new hardcover edition by Carlsen Verlag in 1996 and a publication by Splitter Verlag in 2010 followed. The comic was also published in English and Spanish, among others.

Importance and external perception

After Travelers in the Wind , Bourgeon's work on The Companions of the Twilight meant a return to the Middle Ages genre, which he had already dealt with in the comic series Brunelle et Colin (German title: Britta and Colin ). According to Marcel Feige , The Companions of the Twilight “not infrequently turn out to be an art fairy tale in graphic form”. According to Andreas C. Knigge , Bourgeon designed in the comic "a similarly dense panorama of the Middle Ages [...] such as Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose ".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcel Feige: The little comic dictionary . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-544-9 , p. 318.
  2. ↑ a b The Companions of the Twilight at Splitter Verlag on comicguide.de , accessed on February 22, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Les Compagnons du Crépuscule on bdtheque.com (French) , accessed on February 22, 2013
  4. ↑ The Companions of the Twilight at Carlsen Verlag on comicguide.de , accessed on February 22, 2013
  5. ^ New edition of The Companions of the Twilight at Carlsen Verlag on comicguide.de, accessed on February 22, 2013
  6. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: 50 Classic Comics. From Lyonel Feininger to Art Spiegelman . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-8067-2556-X , p. 219.
  7. ^ François Bourgeon on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on February 22, 2013
  8. ↑ Marcel Feige: The little comic dictionary . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-544-9 , p. 319.
  9. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , p. 281.