In this second volume, Théo Grosjean continues to compile his best Instagram posts while his whole life has changed: with more than 100,000 subscribers, a critical and popular success, Does the most freaked man in the world still find anxieties to share?
The daily life of a freak cream
Théo Grosjean is a complete artist: scenario, drawing, colorization, he does everything alone. After the success of the first volume where he showed us that the life of an anguished person is far from easy, he digs much deeper into his traumas in this second volume… but while always making us laugh. Indeed, even if each story is very focused on the author, it brings perspective through humor or tenderness. The variety of humor is very wide. The reader goes from a chronicle on everyday life to the most absurd moment as when the author makes an alien discover anguish and this saves the Earth. Published by Delcourt, The Most Flipped Man in the World is fully in the news with the many works on mental health. By his success and his editing, he shows that the situation has changed but, because of success, he is afraid of having no more anxieties and having nothing to say. Fortunately, he connects to the news such as confinement which only reinforces his anxieties. At regular intervals, we also find his problems in the evening. Theo doesn't know how to socialize or misses his jokes.
Sources of anxiety
In this volume, Théo Grosjean describes the origins of his ailments. The artist does not hesitate to open his soul to us. Even before his birth, Théo Grosjean was convinced that God had forgotten to entrust him with the guide of social life. He has been obsessed with the omnipresence of death since the death of his grandmother. We discover his family in The most freaked man in the world: his mother was already depressed, his grandfather shy and his grandmother blind, his angry big sister. But this dark portrait is never depressive because it explains what the comic book brings him in life and inevitably we melt.
A pedagogy of depression
Far from being content to show the despondency of a depressive, The most freaked man in the world shows the variety of his daily life… and its evils. The reader discovers overthinking when he never stops thinking… especially the bad news. His phobias are illustrated as Pokémon cards. He uses characters (a malaise coach) and animals (the bird of bad conscience, a pangolin) to make us laugh at the diversity of his disorders. Even if the life of a couple complicated, love possible … but with depression. He cheers himself up with heavy rap. Everything does not end badly because anxiety pushes him to surpass himself since, in any case, everything is screwed. Théo Grosjean manages to make us feel his discomfort by a very round line and very expressive faces. This volume again finds the ideal medicine to cure the reader. By the variety of feeling of the stories, the reader like a bipolar, oscillates between laughter, sweetness and tears. The volume ends with his techniques to calm the anxiety but we hope that it is only a temporary end. If you are interested in life stories, you can discover the life of a criminal lawyer on this link.