He’s currently working on a new project, Sunday, which only has one self-published chapter out as of now, so it looks like this practice will continue. Schrauwen even goes so far as to urge the reader at each chapter break to put the collected edition away for one or more weeks, to foreground its nature as a compendium. is a traditional collection of previously-published stories and Arsène Schrauwen, while ostensibly a graphic novel, was originally released as self-printed comic books by the artist.
PARALLEL LIVES SERIES
My Boy is a series of vignettes The man who grew his beard. What all of these books have in common - save for Mowgli’s Mirror, which is not quite 48 pages - is that they’re all compilations of short pieces.
Le miroir de Mowgli/ Mowgli's Mirror (Ouvroir Humoir, 2011 Retrofit/Big Planet, 2015) For context’s sake, here’s a list of Schrauwen’s book-format comics: Then again, this book and Schrauwen’s others also have a lot in common… This book leaves both behind, and though it’s clearly animated by the same sensibility that powered Arsène Schrauwen, it’s unmoored from that book’s essential narrative concerns. One could make the argument that the two main concerns of Schrauwen’s pre- Parallel Lives work are European colonialism, and early-20th century styles of cartooning. This is interesting to me because the great majority of Schrauwen’s previous works have been investigations of the past. Some of them have an explicit future setting, while others contain glimpses of times to come or advanced technology. All of these short comics fit into the science fiction genre, if a typically bizarre, Schrauwenesque reading of it. What jumps out at me about the book as a whole is its focus on the future. So this book is a big deal! It collects six stories of varying length, all but the last of which appeared by themselves in other venues before being presented as part of a cohesive work here. I think the guy’s never put a foot wrong, and I personally count him as the most interesting European cartoonist currently being translated for the English-speaking market. I believe both of us are on record as being huge admirers of that book, and Schrauwen’s work in general. MATT SENECA: Parallel Lives is the new book by Olivier Schrauwen, following up his 2014 opus Arsène Schrauwen. PLEASE NOTE: THE FOLLOWING DISCUSSION 'SPOILS' PLOT DEVELOPMENTS THROUGHOUT PARALLEL LIVES. Joe McCulloch and Matt Seneca | January 11, 2019 Features The Future Has No Time for the Past: A Long Discussion of Olivier Schrauwen’s “Parallel Lives”
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