Girafe et cadrage en bédé, version Gotlib

Cette image est bien entendu tirée d'une des Rubriques à brac de Gotlib, mettant en vedette le Professeur Burp, spécialiste des questions animales. Je ne crois pas avoir besoin de commenter outre mesure. Gotlib est un génie de la bande dessinée et il ne brise pas que le quatrième mur ici, il brise tous les murs. Et le Professeur Burp rencotnre son double en plus. Et remarquez le cou et la tête de la girafe qui vont partout dans les cases. On rit en même temps qu'on est impressionné de tant de virtuosité.

Of time and old friendships

I was going through Facebook recently, seeing status of my friends, getting in touch with some long estranged ones too. I will probably spout thundering clichés, so be indulgent. I felt a weird feeling of self-alienation, as if my life and theirs had been taken by legions of doppelgängers. I met most of the friends I still have in late childhood or teenage. I now see them sporadically, or not at all, I only know about them from their Facebook status and their pictures. Most of them, I haven't seen in years. I remember them as teenagers and young adults, people with whom I spent many carefree years of my life. Now many are married, some are divorced, many have children, cats, dogs, what have you. And it just feels strange. I guess I must be just as alien to them, the boy growing up in Chicoutimi who ended up marrying an Englishwoman and living on the other side of the Atlantic.