Gébé’s Letter to Survivors Launch w/ Translator Edward Gauvin
Books with Pictures 1401 SE Division Street, Portland, OR, United StatesGébé (George Blondeaux; 1929-2004) is the patron saint of French illustrated satire. He was a founder of the influential magazine Hara-Kiri, a major influence and broadsheet of the Paris student movement of 1968, and after it was shut down Charlie Hebdo where he remained an editor until his death, as well as Pilote (home of Astérix) and L’Enragé (publisher of de Sade, Bataille, Dalí, Breton, and The Story of O). His weekly strip L’AN 01 imagines a world where modernization has been resisted, consumerism refused, a freedom granted to life as one wants—and became a cult movie of the same title directed Jacques Doillon, Alain Resnais, and Jean Rouch. Letter to Survivors, a later and complete work, is set in a post-apocalyptic, barren world where…