When the most influential of all comic artists, who was recently in Germany, was in Germany, he answered in English last year when asked about the current comic: Olivier Schrauwen’s “Sunday”. Now this judgment can be checked in German – the translated band in co -production of Colorama (the publisher of the original edition) and the edition has come out modern. And goods are right: what Schrauwen is organizing, opens a new dimension of comic-called.thibaul Schrauwen is a narrator and protagonist in “Sunday”. Here he is reflected in his broken smartphone. Dedi Schrauwennicht that Belgian, born in 1977, in the almost twenty years, which has been admitted to his talent since his first international success, the volume “Junge”. But the last publication was ten years ago: “Arsène Schrauwen” told the story of his grandfather as a colonialist in Africa. The new band is now family biographical. “Sunday” is called, and what is offered on 472 pages is the everyday life of Olivier Schrauwen’s cousin Thibault, who was reconstructed in long conversations, on a single autumn Sunday of 2017. Artist and model: Olivier Schrauwen is in “Sunday” at the conversations with his cousin Thibault, from which the comic has been. Think of such one-day enemy principle of “Ulysses” by James Joyce or “Mrs Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf, and with the comparison, neither these two milestones of the novel literature will be unjustly praised nor are Schrauwen’s performance. But as he tells, it is very comic-friendly by making the side to the play area, on which several time and room levels are presented in parallel, based on Thibaul’s inner monologue about his job as a typographer, his sexual needs, old friendships and concerns about all these questions. Cousin Patrik, the formerly worshiped Nora and the author of the comic, Olivier Schrauwen himself. And as complex as the levels of action are nested, it is also the graphic means that are used: from photo -realism to the sketch. The tension increases with every side, although nothing spectacular happens. But a day is put into pictures so that you will be able to be amazed for years. A book for the comic history books, a Sunday child of this art form.Olivier Schrauwen: “Sunday”. From the English by Christoph Schuler. Edition Moderne/Colorama, Zurich 2025. 472 S., BR, 45,- €.
