Paris

A pitch-black and wonderfully trashy comedy based on stories and gossip from the world of fashion and showbiz, Paris is both lyrical and critical of a society that is obsessed with beauty, money, status and power. The first part, I Love Paris, tells the story of three friends who each want to make it. Hope hopes for a successful modelling career despite a big scar on her face. Faith has faith that she will make it big as a singer, while Chastity literally sleeps her way to the top - as a porn star. The second part, I hate Paris, goes on to tell of their rise - and fall.

Maarten Vande Wiele, born Ghent Belgium 1977 works as an illustrator, but his true passion is comic art. Vande Wiele started studying but soon switched to photography. He graduated with a master in decorative arts. His work has been published in various Flemish and Dutch magazines. His first comic book Glamourissimo was released in 2000. Then followed the Strip Noir short stories (2005) and the Doctor Carnacki series (2006). In 2008 he published I Love Paris, his first graphic novel, followed by I Hate Paris in 2009. In 2014 Vande Wiele published Monsieur Bermutier, a story about a judge who investigates a murder mystery. The book was a comic strip adaptation of five stories by French novelist Guy de Maupassant from his novel 'Le Horla'.