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'Il n’y a pas de super-héros plus super que Dragman, le héros travesti de Steven Appleby. Appelé aussi Dolly Marie, il mène contre les voleurs d’âmes de Black Mist un combat apocalyptique, névrotique, tendre, drôle – et brillamment dessiné.'
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Depuis qu’il a trouvé, adolescent, un bas de sa mère dans le sofa, August Crimp a découvert deux choses. La première est qu’il adore porter des vêtements de femme. La seconde est que lorsqu’il le fait, il devient capable de voler. Oui, comme un super-héros! Hélas, cette passion un peu obsessionnelle est contrariée par la peur du ridicule et de la réprobation générale. Si sa mère, puis sa femme venaient à l’apprendre, c’en serait fait de lui. Du coup, il range sagement dans des cartons les tenues et souvenirs de Dragman, le nom de guerre qu’il s’était donné. De toute façon, la ville regorge de justiciers masqués. Mais voici que Cherry Mingle, la petite fille qu’il a sauvée d’une terrible chute du toit du Musée d’Art moderne un jour qu’il s’y était rendu en Dragman, réapparait dans sa vie. Elle a encore besoin de lui, cette fois pour aider ses parents qui ont vendu leurs âmes à la mystérieuse compagnie Black Mist pour lui payer ses études. Dragman reprend donc du service et l’aventure (même si elle finit bien) ne sera pas de tout repos…
Comment partager sa vie entre le rôle de bon père de famille et celui de super-héros quand tous vos pouvoirs tiennent au fait de vous travestir en femme? Telle est la question. Le coming-out et la confession de cette passion très singulière produisent le roman graphique le plus étonnant, détonnant et délirant de l’année…
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Dragman
2022-06-22, Editorial Finestres
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Dragman: Ein Roman
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Dragman: A Novel
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Dragman: een graphic novel
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Dragman tells the story of August Crimp, a man who has superpowers when he puts on women's clothes. August loves wearing a dress but is deeply ashamed of his compulsion and terrified of rejection should it ever come out. So he tells no one. Not even his wife. But then one day a little girl falls from the rooftop cafe at the Art Museum and August has no choice but to fly and save her - an event witnessed by hundreds of people.
And August Crimp's life is never the same again.
Dragman is Steven Appleby's first long-form graphic thriller. Inspired by the superhero comics he read as a child and informed by his own secret life as a transvestite, Steven Appleby has created a multi-layered, tightly plotted, cleverly structured novel with a compulsive forward drive in which August battles greed, evil and his own self-doubt in a fight to save himself, his marriage - and the human soul. A real page-turner, Dragman brims with humanity, subtlety and wit - plus plenty of Steven Appleby's oblique and absurdly imaginative musings on 'what is life really all about?'
Fans of Steven Appleby's unmistakable drawing style, as seen in his many books and in comic strips such as Captain Star (NME, Observer), Small Birds Singing (The Times), and Loomus (Guardian), will not be disappointed.
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