Suddenly, the story resembles a tale, but also a dream. I then did research around native legends.Īnd I saw with great satisfaction and astonishment that there was a lot of overlap between my unconscious and the tales of the whole world in fact. In fact, I could speak with monsters, nocturnal creatures. This universe seems close to native legends, very inspired by nature, animism. , he will go in search of his stuffed rabbit and discover a very colorful world, populated by small characters and half-human half-animal creatures. The René of the title is an unhappy little boy who lives with a very cold and distant mother. Women could leave their children at the hospital and when they came back, they were asked to sign a paper, but they couldn't read the language, so they signed like that and in fact they had just signed a paper that they were giving up their child.įrom a terrible historical fact, Elene Usdin draws a metaphorical graphic novel that approaches horror through storytelling. There was also a whole policy of adoption, it is this small part of which I speak in René.e. So much so that a commission of inquiry was able to speak of cultural genocide.
Interned or adopted by white couples, these children were cut off from their language and culture.
Last September, thousands of graves were unearthed in Canada near former boarding schools where some 150,000 Amerindian, Inuit and Métis children were forcibly placed for decades. This comic strip speaks, in the form of a tale, of a historical fact making headlines in Canada: the abduction of Amerindian children knowingly organized for decades by the State. Is the title of a graphic novel that received the ACBD Critics' Prize, the Association of Comic Strip Critics. “René.e aux bois dormants”, a comic strip by Elene UsdinĬover of the graphic novel “René.e aux bois dormants”.
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