Adrift #1
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Publisher Description
A poetic tale of a life at sea, exploring how travel, adventure, and chance encounters can shape both individuals and future generations.
PUBLICATION IN 2 VOLUMES - COMPLETED WORK
Gregory Mardon pays a heartfelt homage to his grandfather, who left from Northern France in the 1930s to enlist in the French Navy and went on countless globe-spanning adventures. A story full of tenderness, humor, and melancholy, told with keen insight and intimacy.
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French cartoonist Mardon lovingly recounts the life of his grandfather, Adolphe H rault, in this graphic biography that shows how even the most ordinary life is extraordinary. At 16, "Dodo" resolves to leave his life working in a butcher shop in the small French town of Douai and enlist in the French navy. He sails the seas, working in the galley on board ship and getting up to assorted high jinks. Life for him and his shipmates takes a drastic turn when World War II breaks out. When France surrenders to Germany and the British give the remaining French vessels an ultimatum, Dodo ends up in North Africa. There he marries and begins a career at a bank in Tunis. Mardon shifts between his experience of Dodo and the stories that Dodo tells him, fanciful or factual; his grandfather comes off as a fun-loving guy, just the sort that might make a good pal or grandpa. Mardon's loose black-and-white art captures Dodo's energy and zest for life and the details that stand out in memory.
