Puzzle Sauvage – Dominique Marquet-Lausch
Puzzle Sauvage by Dominique Marquet-Lausch / A mysterious wordless book first published by Gallimard in 1988 (in their imprint for challenging works, “Le Sourire qui mord”), just reprinted by Ion Editions in France. Feels in the spirit of Remy Charlip’s strangest books.
44 pages, saddled-stitched, paper cover with flaps, 7.5 x 10.5 inches
“The French artist Dominique Marquet-Lausch has invented a very peculiar way of drawing comics. Each double-page is an entire universe in three panels, which readers have to explore and decipher. Multiple mysterious links bloom between the figures, their names, the textures…”
