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Article: Marc-Antoine Mathieu - Prisoner of Dreams
Posted: September 27, 2013
Somehow Marc-Antoine Mathieu was fated to become a comics artist. As he explains to fellow artist Étienne Davodeau in Davodeau’s charming autobiographical graphic novel The Initiates (NBM Publishing, 2013), “I was born into a family without television. That was my parents’ choice. But books were everywhere, and images were a family thing. My brothers draw too.” His parents also rarely took their children to the cinema. Instead, the whole family enjoyed reading and that included comics or bandes dessinées, subscribing to the weeklies Tintin, Spirou and Pilote, home to Asterix who was born in 1959, the same year as Marc-Antoine. Rather timid and withdrawn, the youngest of four sons was initiated by his father and three brothers from the age of five into making comics of his own. Panels and balloons became one way for him to share and communicate with others. Read the rest of my new Article here…
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