Si vous pouvez lire le francais… ... there's a lengthy critical piece up about David B.'s L'Ascension Du Haut Mal in support of a comics-focused issue of a magazine called Labyrinthe. I don't know if the article posted is any good or not, but that's a stunning work to dig into and one that comics readers in North America never got behind as much as I thought they might stretching back to the 1990s when L'Ascension was considered a work with a broad, significant appeal and displayed visual mastery on a level with Jimmy Corrigan.
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