Didier Comès. The Ardennes Ink Volume 3

Didier Comès. The Ardennes Ink. Volume 3

War and Other Conflicts

by Albert Moxhet

In this final volume of his trilogy *Didier Comès, L’encrage ardennais*, Albert Moxhet explores a theme which, in various forms, runs through the entire body of work of his friend Didier: war. For personal reasons dating back to his childhood, the author and illustrator has been deeply affected by this theme and, from one album to the next, explores its many facets, in both historical and personal contexts. In doing so, Didier Comès delves deeply into the world and culture of his own time, with which he was intimately familiar. This is why this volume explores elements and events which, far from being mere academic exercise, form the roots of the author’s lived experience and feelings, in other words, the personal universe in which he created works where grounding and anchoring converge to express, through tales imbued with the fantastical, a reality that provokes reflection and draws on human experience to safeguard the future (extract from the back cover).