Virginie Augustin & Hubert · The Dome
The life of Marion “Joe” Carstairs is like something out of a movie although it was never filmed. Yes, it is included in the book. The Queen of Whale, but only in english, so this La Cúpula comic is the best way to get closer to it and hallucinate. For the absolute freedom and abandon with which he lived his life, but also for its contradictions and its darkest episodes, that there are. He never wanted to be a man because it seemed more fun to play at being one., also adopting very questionable attitudes. But here we have come to celebrate your freedom, at a time when women could not arrogate it to themselves. Less, a woman who called herself Joe, dressed like a man and acted like one (How is a man supposed to act?, you understand me). She set up a women's taxi company, drove an ambulance during World War I, competed with hydrofoils, He bought an island in the Bahamas, he had dozens of lovers (between them, Marlene Dietrich)… And in the end, got old, and with old age came nostalgia, the fears, weakness and death. Goodbye to a life of fun. S.M.
