Trumpets of Death: Get an Exclusive Preview of This Starkly Beautiful New Graphic Novel

French cartoonist Simon Bournel-Bosson is making his graphic caller debut with Graphic Universe's Trumpets of Death. Suffice it to say, this publication is 1 of the astir visually arresting comics we've seen successful a while, and it should decidedly beryllium connected your radar.

With Trumpets of Death disposable successful bookstores and comic shops now, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of this graphic novel. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Here's the authoritative statement for Trumpets of Death:

One rainy night, Antoine gets dropped disconnected astatine his grandparents' distant location successful the mediate of the woods. While his absent begetter searches for his mysteriously missing mother, Antoine is stuck betwixt a doting grandma and a gramps openly hostile to his presence, and clip crawls by portion helium waits to perceive from his parents. But erstwhile Antoine ventures retired with his gramps to forage for mushrooms, the incorrect mushroom leads to a stunning translation for Antoine. The family’s intergenerational conflict, coupled with the mysterious forces of nature, culminate successful a fearsome hunt done the wood that volition resoluteness their differences erstwhile and for each — but astatine what cost?

"This series was inspired by Jean-Jacques Annaud's movie The Bear," Bournel-Bosson tells IGN astir the supra excerpt. "In the film, a small carnivore who has mislaid his parent indispensable past the wood and predators. What amazed maine erstwhile I saw it arsenic a kid was that the dependable dubbing of the bear's cries was done by a human. I ever felt arsenic if a tiny kid was wrong this small bear. This dependable dubbing created a beardown consciousness of empathy for him. We could place with him. We could enactment ourselves successful his shoes."

Bournel-Bosson continues, "I deliberation each of this inspired this thought of human/animal transference. And directly, this country wherever Antoine adapts to his caller environment. It's arsenic if a kid were trapped successful the assemblage of an carnal and was commenting connected what helium could spot and observe. I recovered it subtle to amusement the wood by changing the constituent of view, to spot it not from the quality perspective. But from an animal's constituent of view."

Humans successful the wood person the unfortunate inclination to deliberation they are alone. But determination are thousands of eyes and ears to perceive and observe them," Bournel-Bosson says. "This excerpt is absorbing due to the fact that it shows the precise infinitesimal erstwhile Antoine reaches a definite acceptance of his caller condition. He isn't trying to instrumentality to what helium was. He's trying to find equilibrium and a spot successful his caller world. What inactive connects him to the quality satellite are the words and thoughts verbalized successful his head. Soon they volition disappear... leaving lone his senses."

Trumpets of Death is disposable successful stores now. You tin bid a transcript connected Amazon.

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