Bubbles & Gondola

Poetry, fantasy, and Django Reinhardt are woven into a fairy tale about solitude and awakening the creative spirit in this graphic novel. Charlie is a mouse who enjoys his solitude, staying up late nights indoors to listen to records and play his guitar; he experiences the outside world only through the windows of his house. As Charlie begins to stumble with writer's block, a bluebird named Mr. Solitude arrives to encourage Charlie to search for inspiration outside of himself and his home. Told with a melancholic and heart-warming lyricism, this tender story combines pithy observations with whimsical illustrations to create a simple yet poignant tale for readers young and old.

Renaud Dillies (Author) : Renaud Dillies got his artistic education at the Saint Luc and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tournai, Belgium. He got his apprenticeship at the famous children's comics magazine Spirou. His two passions are comics and music. He combined these two passions in his debut comic, 'Betty Blues', that appeared at Paquet publishers in France in 2003. Under the pseudonym Jack, he has illustrated several humorous comics about sports, such as 'Les Foot Maniacs' and 'Tout sur le Rugby', at French publisher La Sirène.