A surprising, wry, and deeply moving reflection on despair and the way back out
Ten years after finishing the original French edition of "Maybe Later"--the book
in which the French superstar cartooning duo Philippe Dupuy and Charles
Berberian worked separately for the first time--Dupuy set out on his own again
with "Haunted." Gone are the tightly constructed narratives and urbane, elegant
graphics of his projects with Berberian. In their place, roughed-in drawings
give an urgent,
spontaneous feeling to a series of hallucinatory stories and dreamlike sequences
that register the raw distress of solitude and self-doubt--the dark core of the
material held in balance by Dupuy's acid