The author of BD and the actor-director happily explore a new genre for them in “Guacamole Voodoo”. A very funny book made with the means by edge.
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When he had to be triggered, for the first photo, taken in a corridor, Eric Judor was seized with a laugh. “Everything, in this project, was super funny, says the actor and director. As no one knows about experienced in a photo novel, we discovered everything, in self-taught. In this type of format, we play in a way Pure, we have fun as disguised kids. “The result, absurd, entitled Guacamole Vaudou, published by Le Seuil, made of Judor, wearing a kitsch wig, the hero of a scenario signed Fabcaro.
Here is the mischievous Fabcaro and the expressive Judor, never stingy with a good word or a salar pirouette, at the venerable publishing house. The idea of bringing them together comes from Maison Nathalie Fiszman. “In recent months, everyone has started to do comics, and I wondered about how to renew the genre. I thought the photo novel remained a fairly virgin terrain, even if I was looked at me A bit like a Martian, “she retraces.
She gets her teeth first with the six functions of language, the Oulipian Clémentine Mélois, a photo novel from collages, published in March 2021: with, in the end, a nice success at 15 000 copies. She solicits Eric Judor, of whom she likes “poetry, subtlety and ability to compose faces worthy of cartoons”. The actor, who appreciated the novel the speech and the bd Zaï Zaï Zaï Zaï, of Fabcaro, would like to collaborate with him. A proposal to which the latter says yes without being asked.
“The photo novel works through very frozen drawings and offbeat texts, not so far from the style of my albums”, notes Fabcaro. But what to tell? A story of Voodoo, claims Judor from the first meeting, this esoteric practice “insufficiently exploited in comedy”. Fabcaro is working on storyboards by drawing “Potato men”: “It is with the idea of a loser touched by a voodoo that would transform it into a super-winner that the scenario worked.”
Thus born Stéphane Chabert, an advertiser, Beauf and Ostracisée, who acquired “the American Winne” during a Voodoo weekend where he is blessed by a spell. The reader follows his irresistible rise in power, from his promotion to the post of “Master Boss Managing Winner Force of the company” until his political ambitions. The photo novel, although very seventies, mocks latent racism, television-spectacle, start-up language or the narcissism of philanthropists. “Without a current wink, it would only have made the old idiots laugh as us,” says Fabcaro, whom Judor likes to nickname “Fabrice Caroline”.
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