Jacques Terpant, last comic before the end of a world
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"What Remains of Us," by Jacques Terpant, an album about French rural civilization seen as a dying world. Jacques Terpant-Futuropolis
In What Remains of Us (Futuropolis), Jacques Terpant draws, through the history of his village in Dauphiné, the thousand-year-old fresco of rural civilization that structured French society until the 20th century. An album about the roots and death of a world of which the 68-year-old illustrator considers himself one of the last survivors.
His latest comic strip is twilight, but Jacques Terpant has the laughing eye and detached self-mockery of those who claim to be under no illusions. "You'll recognize me, I'm an old man with a Louis XIII-style mustache," he says as we arrange to meet. And if we have to talk about the death of a world, we might as well do it like bon vivants, in one of those old-fashioned Parisian restaurants where the tablecloths are checkered, the benches are moleskin, and the rum baba is served with a bottle of Negrita left on the table.
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