[Review] The Green Eyelash fits the mold, let's refuse the box!

Here is a new release of Shampooing, the collection of author comics directed by Lewis Trondheim at Delcourt. The Green Eyelash fits the mold is available since September 27.

Becoming a parent changes everything

Le Cil vert continues its graphic autobiography after a first volume, Faux boulot sur le travail avec des personnes avec un handicap. It is not a sequel but a prequel that can be followed very easily if you have not read the first volume. The author is also interested in the transition to adulthood of an adulescent soon to be a father who feels obliged to find work. In doing so, he fears entering the mold and denying himself. This fear is shown by the visual metaphor of the treadmill. This reminder of his good conscience is quite distracting and even becomes surprising at the end.

The most successful part concerns the story of her life as a couple transformed by pregnancy and birth. Ultrasound and then sex with a pregnant woman are very caustic. The very cartoony drawing of the Green Eyelash and its choice to show very little scenery serve this touching part.

Getting out of Arts et Métiers changes everything

The author wonders if his future is a path mapped out since the studies. The Green Eyelash gives us precious but especially very funny information about hazing at the engineering school of Arts et Métiers. Here he makes a critique of engineers seen as upstarts formatted by strange rites and of the world of work with a racist division of labor by profession on construction sites. It is sometimes difficult to grasp this systematic link between the author's current life and his studies. Has he been traumatized by the traditions of Arts et Métiers to the point of not being able to integrate into society? This would explain why it shows his leader traumatized by his selflessness in Liberia. These passages are not very self-righteous but are explained by the ecological and political commitment of the Green Eyelash.

Delcourt does a good job of editing with a compact and quality volume.

On the whole, he succeeds in his game on identification in family life and exoticism by the engineering school. Very informative about Arts and Crafts, the feeling comes in family life. Although sometimes quite messy, we discover a promising author who will surely find a more original voice.