“A hand that cradles, caresses, supports and draws on tiptoe as the child sleeps. During her son’s first year, Marion draws as if to take a deep breath. Her images pile up, helping her to think, questioning her, fixing her emotions and sending her son memories of his great metamorphosis into a mother. After the publication of her latest comic strip, “Les Amours suspendues” (Prix spécial du Jury du Festival d’Angoulême in 2018), Marion Fayolle became a mom.
In the first year after the birth of her son, she produced a series of drawings around parenthood; inspired by the host of rich and contradictory emotions, feelings and ideas that marked this period of her life. A collection of sometimes funny, sometimes tender, but always powerful drawings to enlighten, question and delight us, and enable us to translate deep and beautiful feelings into images. Marion Fayolle’s “Les Petits” is a collection of drawn poems, a worthy successor to “Coquins” and “L’Homme en Pièces”! A book that speaks to us like never before about the complexity of the process of becoming a parent, the construction of one’s relationship with a child and its coming into the world. A treasure to share! “
