Seule une poignée d’initiés connaissait et l’on trouvait très peu d’articles sur le net et encore moins de photos !!! Cela a évidemment fortement changé avec le succès de la série Mindhunter. Pour remettre dans le contexte, à l’époque, Big Ed était totalement inconnu du grand public. Comme il cherchait quelqu’un pour dessiner un one-shot sur Kemper… et que j’avais monté un projet avec Thomas Mosdi… les choses se sont faites très naturellement. Il était tombé sur mon travail en visionnant le book de mon coloriste Axel Gonzalbo. Nous lui avons posé quelques questions au sujet de la création de cette œuvre unique.ĮKS : Pourquoi avoir créé un album sur Ed Kemper? D’où t’es venue l’idée? Quelle a été ton inspiration?ĭJ : L’idée provient au départ de Jean-Luc Istin qui, en 2009, avait créé une collection sur les tueurs en série chez Soleil. **Version française de l’entrevue avec David Jouvent**ĭavid Jouvent est le dessinateur de la bande dessinée Ed Kemper – Dans la peau d’un serial killer, parue en français en septembre 2020. How did you come to structure the story in this way?ĭJ: Indeed, this anecdote was blessed bread!! It’s more of a question to ask my screenwriter (laughs)!ĮKS: For the drawings and colors, what were your aesthetic inspirations?ĭJ: The idea was to give an atmosphere reminiscent of California and the 1970’s… warm colors, in a dominant sepia.ĮKS: Are you working on a new project right now? If so, can you tell us a few words about it?ĭJ: I have a fantasy western project based on Native American legends… but, the context is not very favorable at the moment… more to follow.Ĭorner up left: Jouvent posing as Kemper for the cover other drawings show the evolution of his work. This allows you to tell the story from Kemper’s point of view and walk through his narrative. If this can give some kind of explanation to his (incomprehensible) actions, because we all ask ourselves this question: “how can one reach such extremes?”.ĮKS: The structure of the narrative is in flashbacks with as a starting point the moment when Kemper is delirious in prison following an injection of medication that makes him revisit the events of his past. Just to put ourselves in this man’s skin for a moment, and try to catch a glimpse of his motivations and feelings. Exit all that is gore, we were not there to make vulgar sensationalism. How did you decide what was to be shown or not shown?ĭJ: The important thing (and the concept) was to speak from Ed’s point of view, how he saw things, so there was no room for the representation of the victims! If only out of respect for their families. For me, it is essential to be credible in my visuals, so that the reader has no doubt when he sees a telephone or inadequate vegetation (the vegetation in California is not the same as in Alaska!) As an anecdote, I had pushed the vice to the point of reproducing in detail the broken headlight of his car or the exact plate number! (laughs) Without forgetting the sticker of the university where his mother, Clarnell, worked…ĮKS: You made some narrative choices for the script, such as excluding the trial and the murders of his grandfather, Rosalind Thorpe, Alice Liu and Sara Hallett (they are mentioned, but not shown). My references in terms of serial killers came from Thomas Harris’ work, Psycho (by Hitchcock) and Chris Carter’s Millenium series (which I liked very much) with Lance Henriksen where there was a lot of talk about serial killers in season 1.ĮKS: How was the collaboration between Thomas, Axel and you during the creation of the album?ĭJ: First of all, we exchanged a lot of documentation of all kinds… I wanted to make sure that the places and atmospheres of the times fit together perfectly. Only a handful of insiders knew about him and there were very few articles on the net and even less pictures!! This obviously changed dramatically with the success of the Mindhunter series. To put it in context, at the time, Big Ed was totally unknown to the general public. As he was looking for someone to draw a one-shot on Kemper… and as I had set up a project with Thomas Mosdi… things happened very naturally. He came across my work while viewing the book of my colorist Axel Gonzalbo. We asked him a few questions about the creation of this unique work.ĮKS: Why did you create an album about Ed Kemper? Where did you get the idea? What was your inspiration?ĭJ: The idea originally came from Jean-Luc Istin who, in 2009, had created a collection on serial killers for Soleil. **French translation of the interview follows**ĭavid Jouvent is the illustrator of the graphic novel Ed Kemper – Dans la peau d’un serial killer (Under a serial killer’s skin), published in French in September 2020.
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