Comic Book - When I Am Alone With The Sea... - Dominique Guyaux x Joachim Rossignol

25 years later...the comic book, 96 pages !

After the novel, the 96-page comic book, illustrated by Joachim Rossignol.
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A young man full of life suddenly falters: he has just learned that he has multiple sclerosis. This dreadful disease will gradually cripple him, everything will unfold like in a horror movie, the enemy strikes anywhere, anytime. The guillotine is selective, he will never know which limb or vital function he will be deprived of tomorrow.

After a period of despair that brings him to the brink of nothingness, he decides to escape the gaze of others. He sells the little he owns to buy a small catamaran and live out his dreams in the Caribbean islands before it's too late. He will no longer endure pity, vague contempt, or cruel ignorance. He then puts himself in orbit of the world, sailing from island to island, while juggling crises.

Until the one that, several times a day and wherever he was, made him collapse into himself, paralyzed and unable to say a word, a helpless spectator of his long descent into hell. This time, he was afraid of losing his life in the great swell of the open sea. He was going to surrender, he knew it now, but before that, he had to find a deserted island and spend a few days there to etch this dream into his memory, in extremis. After that, yes, he would surrender.

Except that he discovers raw food and immediately embarks on the adventure. At first, he struggles to reconcile this way of eating raw with his role as a solo sailor. He flounders, in fact, so he tinkers, adapts, and invents, and he quickly discovers that by eating this way, the symptoms regress rapidly and the crises disappear. He then leads a wild life, feeding on fishing and foraging during his stopovers, savoring his new life.

Dominique Guyaux has drawn from this almost initiatory adventure a poignant and hopeful narrative.
With a disconcerting frankness of sincerity, he recounts the eruption of evil, his battles to survive, and his retreats into childhood, with his Father, when life is too hard, until some speak to him of resurrection.

The comic book edition, superbly illustrated by Joachim Rossignol who worked on the drawings by hand only, adds considerable depth to this poignant story.