Comic strip: Alex Inker, the cartoonist of the margins
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Author of numerous high-quality albums, human adventures in difficult social contexts, Alex Inker co-wrote Krimi, a masterful account of the behind-the-scenes work of Fritz Lang's production of M. A perilous journey to the dark sources of evil in the light of sublime black and white.
Some authors are not what we imagine them to be. Alex Inker is one of them. A virtuoso illustrator of albums about the ills of society, he has recounted in black and white (sometimes enhanced with an earthy red) unemployment during the "Great Depression" in Un travail comme un autre (2020) or the hidden face of American prosperity in Colorado Train (2022) ... Without forgetting, of course, his latest comic strip, the masterful Krimi, co-written with Thibault Vermot, a fascinating dive into the Berlin underworld of the 1930s alongside Fritz Lang seeking inspiration for his poisonous masterpiece M le maudit.
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