« White bread and chocolate », the output of possibilities – Liberation
At the time of the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the victory of the allies, from the recall to the duty of memory of an hour which saw humanity become foreign to itself, White bread and chocolate seems a good thing. A black and white comic strip, in pencil, which undertakes only to share an episode of the family history of its author, Pascal Matthey. However, in its own way, it produces a effect comparable to the documentary fresco The warfrom Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, who told the Second World War through the fate of four cities and their inhabitants: she puts familiar back into a world conflict.
White bread … tale two stories at the same time. In pictures, Pierre Matthey says the life of a 10-12-year-old Swiss boy who, in the 80s and 90s, left on vacation with his grandparents in Marl, a high place of chemistry in Rhine-Nord-Westphalie. A drawn story on which a text is superimposed which reports the life of his grandparents fifty years earlier.
By its device, Pierre Matthey produces a confusing object, which tries to say war without showing an image. Outside the archive. To be more precise, the superb idea of this book is the way it replaces an archive (documentary and unequivocal) with another (personal and ambiguous). BD first focuses on the representation of soup
