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"As brilliant and incisive as ever

and enlightening

with all the commensurate joy

with every detail depicted vividly on the page

The Cliff Thierry Smolderen barbaric act drives the SattoufsBy Manon Debaye. Published by Drawn & Quarterly. Softcover, 160 pages, Colour, 2023. A budding friendship between two misfits unravels in the wake of school violence Schoolyard outcasts Charlie and Astrid meet up after school near a cliff at the edge of the woods surrounding their sleepy town. They make a blood pact to jump together in five days time, before their thirteenth birthdays. Not that navigating the unspoken pecking order of the school quad