In addition, polar from Stéphane Heurteau, published by Cartem Comics, tells the shocking story of a former policeman, with deep wounds in his soul who do not stop tormenting him, in which he can be the most dangerous adventure of his life

In France it is knownly to be known as polarwhich is the abbreviation of Soap work of the police –investigative novel-The this type of stories, but also covers the noir genre and the thriller in the comic. Obviously this is a genre with much tradition, like the Yellow In Italy or in the black novel in Spain, both in the novel and in comic book (BD).

A good polar You must have a Own atmosphereWhere the atmosphere must be dark, dense and plausible, in an urban or rural environment. In fact, the visual environment has wet roads, bad death bars, old cars, factories and night landscapes that immerse the reader enters the tension of the story.

Los character of this type of comic must be ambiguous and complexIn fact, the protagonists are often unsuccessful and bad, in the same way, they are figures with credible psychological and social motivations. It must also have it social realismbeing one Critical dimension where to show inequalities, corruption, structural violence, social or political tensions; Because, after all, it is not just about solving a crime, but of revealing the social background that produces it.

THE fiction It must be a plot that combines intrigues, tension and dramatic progression, with a cinematographic rhythm of black cinema and black series Literary also, it is Graphics aesthetic It must be consistent with the atmosphere: predominance of black and white, chiaroscuros and hard blows. The drawing must transmit both the rawness of violence and moments of waiting and tension.

Finally, it must have the moral ambiguityGood and evil seem blurred or blurred, so the protagonists usually move in a gray area, generating a more adult and reflective reading. In short, Beyond Stéphane Heurteau Posted by Cartem Comics is this type of polar.

The plot

Over is divided into Five chaptersSince these are: Jack and Rasputin, The Drama, False Pretexts, Rebirth and Epilogue. In this story the hero He is an old man Captain of the Bordeautica judicial police brigadebelonging to the French national police: Jack Quervellat. Jack was one of the best policemen, but alcohol, violence, abandonment of the family made him leave the institution.

Jack goes to a very distant place in Bordeaux, takes refuge on the island of Ouessant, in Brittany, with the only company of his cat. There he hopes to spend the page of his previous life and start a new one, then performs other professions, such as the fisherman. One day his police instinct makes him observe what he should not have and his facet of former hound returns from the subconscious to follow the path, with all the problems that this entails.

The author

Stéphane Heurteau He is the full author of Over, originally from Nantescity ​​of French Brittany At the center of a triangle formed by Rennes, Lorient and Brest-City of another work published by Cartem, Black Night in Brest, which tells an unknown episode of The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)-, therefore in his works he does not hesitate to enhance his region.

Over is presented as a Dense and atmospheric workTypical of a polar, focused on the fall of a policeman up to his catharsis and redemption in an isolated and oppressive environment. It should be noted that it has a Intense fiction Inside its Breton atmosphere and a black and white visual style that affects the reader, especially on emotion and visual.

In the script, Heurteau favors the atmosphere by building a History on pausewhere the scenarios, The silences and the appearance of the characters, including those between Jack and his cat, transmit as much as the dialogues.

The French author knows how to keep the Balance between the word and the cartoonsBeing an integral author, his conception of the script is designed to facilitate visual translation, with scenes that leave room for the graphic rhythm and contemplation, such as when it is in his apartment or in one of the final cartoons sitting in a bank.

Heurteau shows Jack’s human condition, who reflects his solitude, resistance, his memory and as a force of the newspaper is something essential and inherent, but also, in the case of Over, this will leave the reader electrocuted when he has not reached the last pages during his first reading.

On the whole, Herteau as a screenwriter and the cartoonist is sober, atmospheric and sensitiveWith a certain tendency to literary and poetic, closer to the graphic novel of the reflective tone than to the comic of pure entertainment.

Edition

Above From Stéphane Heurteauwas published by Cartem Comics inside his Pitcase collectionIn a volume in rusticwith measures of 26 × 17 cmIn Black and whitewith an extension of 84 pagesTranslated from the French to Spanish from Mateo Pierre Avit Ferrero and extended by Daniel Custer.

Nobody falls so deep if it was not high before.

Franck Over was a policeman. Now he is just a destroyed man. The tragedy separated him from the body, by law, by himself. Live with the fair, drink more than the bill and avoid looking back. The fault does not let him sleep, but alcohol manages to anesthetize it for a few hours.

Up to one night – another bar, another glass, another routine – presence a crime.

And something is activated. Not for justice. Out of necessity. Out of desperation.

What follows is a fall without brake. A return to the low funds of the city … and of its own soul. There is no redemption. Only mud, violence and fault

A noir without concessions

Over does not try to please. It does not offer outputs. It is a comic on what happens when pain becomes the engine and fault in fuel. There is no light at the end of the tunnel, only darker.

With a dry, tense, emotionally rough narration, drags us to the center of a protagonist in which life has already hit too much. An urban and gray France, where the law means nothing and the only truth makes a strip through the sewers.

With Prologue by Daniel Custer, Different of Comicer.

Why read?

Inspired by real characters such as Olivier Marchal, immersed the French director, who brings to veridice, humanity and an almost autobiographical tension.

Heir of French polar cinema (Braquo, 36 that of the gold, haine), with a rough, direct and contemporary atmosphere.

Design of a stroke firm, without artifice, with a sober and documentary palette that accompanies the tone of constant collapse.

Natural lace in European comedians, urban crime, adult narratives or French graphic novels.

A comic for those who are not looking for happy ending

Franck Over is not a hero. Not even a classic anti -hero.

He is a man pushed to the limit for what he saw, for what he did … and for what he did not avoid.

The crime that presence is not a simple narrative trigger. It’s another wound.

An excuse to lower another step in his descent.

In over, violence is not enjoyed: he suffers. The decisions do not save: they compromise. And the silences weigh as much as the shots.

A story that worries … and that’s exactly what it intends

Over does not try to close the wound. Leave it in sight. And force us to look.