DANS LA COUR DES GRANDS

Publishing Company:
MILENA ASCIONE BOOKSAGENT
Imprint:
PETIT PATAYO
Format:
ONE SHOT
Creator(s):

STELLINA CHEN (AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR)
Number of Pages:

92
Cover price:

0 11.00
Publication Date:

2023
Age:
YOUNG ADULT, ADULT
Fiction/Non-Fiction
FICTION
Key words:
HUMOUR , POLITICS, SARCASM, CONTEMPORARY ISSUES,
Summary:

A clever critique of world politics, full of playful irreverence and sharp commentary, making readers question the childishness of global governance.

The world’s most powerful leaders gather for a playful and satirical back-to-school scenario, where they must elect a class representative. It’s Professor M. Lonu who greets this class of big, goofy children, always the namesake as irony with the professor’s name for the UN, the United Nations, comprising over 193 member states, looks like an animal, a sloth surely!The leaders of major global nations, caricatured as mischievous schoolchildren, navigate the absurdities of international politics, sports, and science classes.This school is a metaphor for our world through the prism of a 10-year-old child, comparing these leaders to children through the childishness of each of them in governing our earth.

Stellina Chen is a Taiwanese press cartoonist who divides her time between France and her native island, publishing regularly in Taiwanese media such as News Lens/International, New Bloom and Initium, as well as in other European media such as Le Monde, Courrier International, France 24, Le Temps and Voxeurop. She has also published two comic strips: En quête de racines (self-published) and Dans la cour des grands (Patayo Éditions).

The Petit Patayo collection has a minimalist format, quite surprising, even astonishing, fitting into a pocket, in black and white, measuring 5 x 10.5 cm, with 192 pages, just the first and back covers are in colour.