When comics tell science fiction

Weekly, Pathfinder Presents the selected titles of the upcoming Angoulême Comic Strip Festival. Today, there are three albums focusing on science fiction or the future of humanity.

1 Astra Nova By Lisa Blumen

with Astra Nova (My Employee), Lisa Blumen follows the adventures of a young girl chosen to join a perilous mission with no possibility of return, located 2.5 million light-years from Earth on a journey that will take her between 20 and 50 years old. As departure approaches, Astra must attend the party organized in his honor and bid farewell to his friends.

In this cartoons Created entirely with felt-tip pen, Lisa Bloomim is interested in relationships between individuals, the concepts of time and distance, as well as the power of memories. Unique story Sci-fi, Astra Novain the formal selection, is an exploration of intimacy through the prism of infinity.

2 border By Guillaume Singelin

When it was published in April 2023, border (Rue de Sèvres) Guillaume Singlen It created a sensation thanks to its graphic richness combined with its fascinating theme. The Earth is suffocating, and the exploitation of its last resources forces humanity to turn to new places to conquer, beyond the solar system, and unleash a new gold rush. Three characters try to find their place in this race for the stars.

with borderIn his own way, the author and designer questions the relationship between humanity and its home planet and poses a simple question: Can man live without his planet? The album, which was also nominated for the BD Fnac France Inter Award, was selected in the Eco-Fauve Raja category at the Angoulême Festival.

3 Newforest – Volume 01 By Fred Duvall and Philip Scovoni

Technology has advanced, and humanity has now mastered genetics, living in the great central forest, the New Forest, with all the problems this generates. Three stories that follow one another, are connected by common characters, and deal with very contemporary themes, despite the development of society in a new feudal world.

With Volume 01 of Newforest, Cocteau Castle (Dargood), Fred Duvall and Philippe Scovoni find a place in the Eco-Fauve Raja selection for the Angoulême Festival and question the future of humanity through a different perspective than that of space science fiction, with the ideal returning to a form of acceptance of nature, to actually realizing that problems and issues also evolve, but do not disappear. truly.