Should we really come back to the Vivès affair? Of him, I especially knew “the Taste of Chlorine”, the comic strip which had initially made him known and which had marked, at the end of the 2000s, a change of aesthetic paradigm: he opposed there, to the aesthetic domination of L ‘Association, a somewhat Parnassian manifesto. I left it there, not really interested in this evolution of comics.
I had thus never considered Vives as a provocateur. Or rather, if there was a provocation from him that I had retained, for lack of having read his works, it was when, invited to comment on Chris Ware, the great American cartoonist who was the subject of a retrospective in Beaubourg, Vivès had declared that he had been much more influenced by Dany, the author of some classic erotic comics, but also, with Greg, of the series “Olivier
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