Comes Silence by Didier Comès - Comic Strip
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Comes Silence

Comic Strip
Ink

Publication

  • Silence
  • Casterman
  • 10/1980
  • Interior page

About Didier Comès

Didier Comès (11 December 1942 – 7 March 2013) was a Belgian comics artist, best known for his graphic novels published in the magazine. Didier Comès was born as Dieter Hermann Comès in Sourbrodt in 1942. Growing up in a small village in the Hautes Fagnes with a German-speaking father and a French-speaking mother, he defines himself as a "bastard of two cultures". He left school at 16 to start working as an industrial artist in a factory in Verviers, making his debut in the newspaper Le Soir with the comic strip Hermann in 1969. Four years later he made his first typical long story, Le Dieu vivant, the first part of the series Ergün l'errant, for the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote. In this story, like in most of his later work, the cinematic images take precedence over the story, which is fantastic, and centers around death and mythology. His breakthrough followed with Silence, a harrowing story featuring a mute boy in the Ardennes after World War II. All these elements, war, mythology, troubled relations, witchcraft, animals, and death, often placed in the Ardennes, the region where he was born, are recurring themes in most of his later graphic novels, long unrelated stories in black and white.
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MARV Belle planche d'un album qui m'avait totalement scotché
May 8, 2018, 11:21 AM
DogMengo Magnifique
Jul 11, 2017, 11:38 PM
macama très très gros coup de coeur pour cette superbe Comès
Sep 30, 2016, 8:42 AM
charles20220 Ca c'est genialissime
Sep 7, 2016, 4:35 PM
Carbonnieux une belle Silence pleine de ces silences si chers à Comès ! et ces flics qui ont tout d'une cie SS !!
Sep 4, 2014, 4:01 PM
fabcollection Comes ma boulevercé avec set album!! Tré bel planche!!! Mersi du partag!
Aug 8, 2014, 12:27 PM