between Gogol and… Tex Avery!

From album to album, Pierre-Henry Gomont plows his artistic furrow without anything or anyone being able to divert him. The most surprising thing is that over the pages his graphic style becomes even more refined, gaining depth while preserving its lightness.

The author of Pereira claims and of Malaterre had already brilliantly imposed its singular universe in the first volume of the trilogy Slava, including the first volume, After the fall published in 2022, had left its mark. This volume 2, entitled The New Russians, goes even further. In the first book, he plunged two protagonists worthy of Laurel and Hardy into the heart of Russia in the 1990s. Lavrine, the little fat guy, had flair and ambition. He dreamed of himself as a new oligarch by carefully applying the BA-BA of the scammer… Slava, his skinny apprentice, was more candid and naive, clinging to some memory of artistic studies for which he retained a certain nostalgia. In this new lawless Russian Wild West, the improbable…