I try to get back as close as possible to how the memories come back to me. Hence the fact that this story does not unfold chronologically, but through different eras in a little more disjointed way? They are part of a whole and can always be accessed. The things that happen to us when we are children and teenagers constitute us, they have piled up, they have not disappeared. He created like a mille-feuille, an accumulation of events. I liked the idea of this sectional view of a cliff where you can see all the successive layers of different colors that time has left. This is also the only specifications: if it's cool to write it is because it has to be made into a book! We know how to draw ourselves, make expressions.Īfter a while I had quite a few, I thought to myself that it had been very pleasant to write and that in general it had been the case for all my other books.

I find it super pleasant and easy to tell stories that you know by heart, taking the character yourself. It was halfway between exercise and a little break. I don't think I would have succeeded if I had told myself someone else would read them. These are stories that I have written over the past few years, in a very personal way and telling myself that it was for me. On the occasion of the release of this new book, Pénélope Bagieu answered questions from She interweaves stories that are sometimes serious, sometimes light, evokes with sincerity the loss of loved ones or her carelessness and casts a gentle and tender gaze on the little girl and the young woman she once was. , an autobiographical story as funny as it is moving to tears, in which she shares personal experiences, from her childhood to her young adult life. The author unveils this Wednesday a comic strip entitled , Pénélope Bagieu looks at a whole different story: her own. '20 Minutes' interviewed her on the occasion of the release of this new book.Īfter paying homage to cheeky women and revisiting The author recounts her early childhood or her adolescence in snippets, in a story as funny as it is moving. This Wednesday, Pénélope Bagieu unveils “Les Strates”, an autobiographical comic strip.

Les Strates by Pénélope Bagieu