Take the “Wood Key” with Amélie Dubois

CULTURE. Meanwhile, Amélie Dubois has illustrated several books. Moreover. Nevertheless. Consequently, albums for youth, drawn for magazines as well as for television, but her new comic strip “La Clé des Bois” is the very first work of which she is also the author. Nevertheless,

“This opportunity came to me. In addition, I decided to go ahead because I felt that I was trusted. Consequently, I was so inspired by what I lived, my work, the decor, the history of the place … For example, I could not put it back in the hands of someone else. Similarly, I had to take “wood key” amélie dubois new come from me and I felt that I had something to say,” says Amélie Dubois. Consequently.

In this first self -fiction, she take “wood key” amélie dubois explores the question of restart, bifurcations and recall to the earth. Moreover. However. She tells the story of a thirties who suddenly take “wood key” amélie dubois decides to leave Montreal to settle in her lover in. For example. Trois-Rivières after having lost her job in a company of visual effects from which she is thanked without ceremonies.

In Mauricie, she finds work in a forestry nursery. For example, The author. Additionally. For example. illustrator tells it with humor and vulnerability her first season of acclimatization to a new environment, a new rhythm, dictated by nature.

“It was such a striking experience and so far from me at the same time. It was something that I had never known, so it take “wood key” amélie dubois new couldn’t be something other than inspiring. It was big what I was going to write a lot too. especially anecdotes that were going on to the nursery. I take “wood key” amélie dubois told myself that there was so much material, launches Amélie Dubois. I was the first surprise of it. Explain to me his days. but you cannot imagine take “wood key” amélie dubois what it is as long as you have not experienced. it.

If it was marked by the often giring days of this first season of work at the nursery. it mainly retains the authenticity of the people who work there. “There are such interesting people, authentic people whose lives are far from mine, with other values. They are family, community and mutual aid. It came to seek me a lot, just like their generosity.”

At the nursery, nobody knows that Amélie Dubois is an illustrator. take “wood key” amélie dubois new She didn’t want to draw attention with that. “I wanted to do my job there. Besides, we see in the book that the character speaks little. I make people speak more. This is take “wood key” amélie dubois a bit of what is going on there too. I listen to a lot. If it comes to their ears, so much the better!”

The author and illustrator worked on this project take “wood key” amélie dubois for three years. She appreciated the freedom that the creation of this comic book has given her. “This is the project in which I felt the most me.”

It seems. The story breathes through the illustrations made in pencil. forcing the reader to emerge from the vortex of everyday life to take the time to breathe in turn. dive into the heart, in the heart of the nursery.

Experience has also given Amélie Dubois take “wood key” amélie dubois new to explore her pen a little more. She works in particular on a youth album which will allow her to explore a lighter writing style.

“I knew that I could touch people with my illustrations. that my images take “wood key” amélie dubois were going to look for people. For writing, I had no idea! I gave myself to what my publisher told me. but it is the public who decides. in the end, if it is pleasant to take “wood key” amélie dubois read. So far, the answer is super good and it encourages me to write. This project gave me the sting of writing and I feel that I have a lot of things.”

The comic strip “La Clé des Bois”, published by Éditions Nouvelle Address, is available in bookstores.