Sable Perdu

A final-year project at the ESBDI (Comic and Illustration School of Geneva), telling the story of the malaise of a hotel receptionist who struggles with the feeling of being stuck, while working in a resort in the middle of a desert.

The comic is currently being reworked for publication by La Joie de lire (a Geneva publishing house).

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BUG BOY

A 3-page story in collaboration with the United Nations on the Sustainable Development Goals (topic: combating climate change).

The comic was drawn in pen and the colors and the screen tones were added digitally. Exhibited at the 2023 Book Fair (Geneva) and at the 2024 BDFIL Comic Festival of Lausanne. 

MC-Petrarch

A 3-page story in collaboration with the Bodmer Foundation (a private library and museum in Geneva that collects ancient books) based on manuscripts from the Middle Ages. The story was published in the collection Secrets et destins de manuscrits (Notari editions).

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Other Works

Story in one page, workshop with Posy Simmonds, on role reversal in a fairytale, A3

 

Comic strip to illustrate research into cosmology by cosmologists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) during a workshop with Sammy Stein.

 

Illustration for an article in the Tribune de Genève, about Nino’s wine merchants (Geneva). Done during a one-week internship at the journal’s headquarters.

 

Comic strip for the journal des Bains des Pâquis (Grey pencil and coloured pencils + frames).

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