We know Michel Dufranne from his TV and radio reports (RTBF and La Première). This bookworm is an expert in sub-genres such as crime fiction, thrillers and sci-fi, but when it comes to comic books, he goes all out on all things informative or history-related. We live in a complicated world. It's not easy to understand it, but we can try. And these days, comic books are a great way of doing just that.
Using this medium that he adores, he's getting involved in more and more collaborations to share his astoundingly varied knowledge. From the Bible, to football, not forgetting the Napoleonic wars, Voltaire and Dracula, there's no subject he shies away from, treating each and every one with the intelligence and understanding it deserves. It was high time he talked to us about Femen.
Séverine Lefebvre has seen it all.
She was born in Reims in 1977, and decided 16 years later to travel the world until she hit 18. From Israel to Scotland to the West Indies, these exotic and initiatory travels opened the eyes and expanded the imagination of this young illustrator-in-the-making. Her time in a Reims workshop made up her mind once and for all. Although her grand entry through Delcourt Publishing was with "Sillage, " of which she created 8 pages, it wasn't until 2007 that Lefebvre really proved herself with her very own project: "Les aventures de Tom Sawyer" (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) and then, naturally, "Huckleberry Finn, " that she published with Delcourt in collaboration with Jean-David Morvan and Frédérique Voulyzé.
Needless to say, she knows what it's like to work with big titles! Nonetheless, she couldn't help but be a little apprehensive about working on a title such as "Journal d'une Femen" (Diary of a Femen), published with Lombard. This is undoubtedly the secret to her striking just the right tone in her work on these women.