Schoolchildren draw their Gueules rouges comic strip in Tourves

Ahead of Museum Night, the Gueules rouges museum staff welcomed CM1 and CM2 students from the Victor-Hugo school in Maximin. The children worked with Eric Stoffel, the artist behind the comic strip Les Gueules rouges , to create comic strips as part of the "La classe, l'œuvre" (The Class, the Work) school project.

Over five sessions, the students visited the museum, learned about the history of the miners, and worked in class with a mediator and Eric Stoffel. They learned the steps involved in creating a comic strip: script, penciling, inking, and coloring.

From there, each group designed their own board telling the story of bauxite miners. After listening to the various speeches, the forty-five students proudly showed their parents the sixteen boards on display until May 31st on the museum's second floor.

"It was great"

Eric Stoffel took the time to praise the teachers' commitment and the "practically exceptional nature of these sessions, where the children listened, understood, and took every comment into account, which is quite rare and explains the quality of the results." The scriptwriter and illustrator will be exhibiting his work on Pagnol at the Senate next month.

This creative experience was initiated by the Provence Verte agglomeration in order to perhaps inspire vocations.

Eliott took great pleasure in writing the script. Nelya, for her part, contributed largely to the drawings: "We did it together, it was great, we took a large sheet of paper, made the thumbnails, placed the bubbles, wrote and then sketched. It wasn't easy but now we can do it again, it's extraordinary to have had this chance, I hope to continue doing it."