“EXILE 1″
ZIXTOON VARIANT OF ZIXBOOK CONCEPT
a new concept of comic strip
When Graphic Novel, Photography, Music and Languages meet…
Main title of the trendy Comic Book Series: The Legend of Lost Love
Title of Vol.1: “EXILE”
Synopsis of Vol.1
Têt 2000, Paris, Chinatown. Minh, 50 years of age and an executive manager from the Vietnamese Diaspora, wanders through the crowds, photographing the celebrations like a connoisseur. Overcome by nostalgia, he looks back over the past… Childhood in North Vietnam, his teenage years in the South, a passion for socially-committed photography since an early age, his first heartbreak, the Baccalaureate in 1967, then exile inFrance, May ’68, the tragic death of his entire family during the war, a tough few years as a foreign student in Paris, Engineering School, an exemplary professional career, married in 1977, naturalized and relatively well-integrated, separated in 1997, existential doubt… Obsessed by the past, Minh turns back to the culture of Vietnam and slowly detaches himself from Western values. With meticulous care, he plans his return to the land of his birth, for a holiday that turns into a great adventure. After posting an ad on the Net, he is to meet up with a native Vietnamese guide at HCM-City, a guide who, as we’ll see in the following issues, is to change his life forever.
” For this book, a book that tells a country, Bùi Huy Trang explored the limits of photography, illustration and music; a country is infinitely vast, its story is infinitely vast. This book is the first of its genre, not, perhaps, exactly comic strip art, perhaps a higher form. The authors of this book open doors, doors that open out onto a country, Vietnam. I am going through their doors, to visit this country with their music playing in my head.” Paris, 11 Nov. 2007 Edmond Baudoin
- Exil 1 is an atypical graphic novel blending comics, photography, music and languages.
- 108 pages, 48 two-page comic strip plates, 10.6″ x 11.6″, 1.8 lb
- High-end paperback – Printed in France
- Paper: Arctic Volume Ivory
- Comic drawing – Storyboard – Color by Philippe Hooghe
- Script – Photography by Bùi Huy Trang
- Music by Niels Lan Doky
- Foreword by Edmond Baudoin
- DivX disk included – patented book concept
- Unabridged Making-Of with soundtrack in 10 languages
- Publisher: Zixbook Publishing - Released on Dec. 1, 2008
- ISBN 978-2-917585-00-9
