Boris the Potato Child

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By Anne Simon

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Boris the Potato Child is the final instalment in Anne Simon's Tales of Marylene trilogy. Boris, a round-headed child, rules his home with despotic authority while his mother, Bulle (formerly Queen Aglaia), watches over a once-powerful realm now governed peacefully by its citizens. The arrival of Sabine, a vengeful warrior French fry, disrupts their fragile world. This graphic novel offers a sharp critique of consumerism through a richly imaginative universe, blending literary and pop culture references with a satirical wit.
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This graphic novel will appeal to readers who enjoy visually imaginative worlds with mature themes and satire. Fans of complex storytelling, social commentary, and literary allusions within the graphic novel medium will find it engaging.

In her latest graphic novel, French artist and illustrator Anne Simon returns to her visually and allegorically rich fantasyland.

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Boris, the round-headed child, reigns like a despot in the little house he lives in with his mother. His mother, Bulle, formerly known as Aglaia, was once the all-powerful queen of the country Marylene. Since Marylene's fall, residents have lived in peace thanks to a self-governing system they have adopted. But when Boris meets Sabine, a warrior French fry thirsty for revenge, nothing will ever be the same ...

The final book in Anne Simon's Tales of Marylene graphic novel trilogy (after The Song of Aglaia and Empress Cixtisis), Boris the Potato Child delivers a bitter critique of our consumerist impulses and abuses. Mixing literature and pop culture (such as mashing Simone de Beauvoir with The Beatles), Simon has created in Marylene a world as abundant in visual imagination as Oz or Narnia, but crafted with a Swiftian pen that's mightier than any man's sword.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781683965626

Publisher: Fantagraphics

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 August 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Fantagraphics

Illustration: 164 Illustrations

Contributors:

Translated by Jenna Allen
Translated by Jenna Allen

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 164

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Adult Graphic Novels Anne Simon Fiction Graphic Novels

About the Author

Anne Simon lives in Paris and studied art in the internationally renowned comics city of Angoulême, France. Jenna Allen is a freelance translator based in Colorado.