Samuel Bas

Samuel Bas is an illustrator and comic book artist originally from Cahors, who now lives and works in Strasbourg. After studying graphic design at the École Professionnelle Supérieure d’Arts graphiques in Ivry-sur-Seine, he worked as an illustrator for a children’s coloring company before returning to study at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg, to devote himself to illustration. Graduating in 2019, he has since worked for the press (Le monde diplomatique, Libération), youth magazines (Magazine Georges, Picsou Magazine) and numerous fanzines and collective editions (Wobby, Matière Grasse, Très très bien).

As part of this residency, Samuel Bas will be working on the plates for FESTIN, a comic book project to be published by Editions 2042. In this book, the author depicts the collapse of the parasitic society of Hopopopes, small miniature humans organized in colonies, like ants. The reading of this book is sonorous, even “noisy”, and the characters express themselves in an onomatopoeic language drawn from the vast repertoire of “Hop”, “Zut”, “Paf” and, of course, “Hopopope”. In the absence of text, movement plays a central role, recalling the spirit of the animated films of the 1930s, the films of Jacques Tati or the manga of Yuichi Yokoyama.