Pigeons!

Publishing Company:
MILENA ASCIONE BOOKSAGENT
Imprint:
LA CAFETIèRE
Format:
ONE SHOT
Creator(s):

MARC CHALVIN (AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR)
Number of Pages:

191
Cover price:

€ 28.00
Publication Date:

July 2023
Age:
ALL AGES
Fiction/Non-Fiction
FICTION
Key words:
SATIRE, HUMOR, POLITICS,
Summary:

A riveting socio-political fable that uses animal archetypes to remind us of the dangers of tyranny and lack of freedom.

Life is simple for pigeons: they don’t want to think about their destiny or how to take control of it. Free from all responsibility, they are ready to submit to strong authority. A cruel and Machiavellian crow was just waiting for this to exercise his natural gifts as a tyrant. He imposes law and order but also f terror and arbitrary acts. Everyone seem to fond it fitting … Until a seagull will challenge this state of affairs with a debate and free elections.

A biting and humorous fable fuelled by current events, Pigeons! is a modern satire on power, from those who exercise it to those who suffer from it.

Born in Paris in 1965, Marc Chalvin became a professional illustrator in 1990 when he published his first drawings in Camions magazine. Since then, he has worked for a number of specialist press outlets (La Recherche, Avantages, Jeune et Jolie, L’Etudiant, Télé Poche, etc.) and in publishing (Hors-collection, Nathan, First). In 1993, his first collection of drawings based on everyday life in the workplace, Le Modèle M, was published by Dunod. This was followed by Les Profs (Ellipses, 1995), La biotechnologie vous facilite la vie and Reproduction Interdite (Elsevier, 1998 and 2002 respectively).

Rien que de l’amour! is his very first comic book. It was followed by the series Louna et sa mère and the erotic comic Libido blues, published by La Musardine.