Economic crisis is making old revolutionary phenomenons get back to surface, I am personnaly keen on Autoreduction. The concept is simple :  a group of at least thirty people are getting in any global chain supermarket, fill in Caddies and block the cashiers. The loss due to the huge waiting line is so big that the direction rather let them go for free.

The radicals are explaining that they not stealing, through Hari Kunzru’s book main character Chris Carver “Society’s power structure had been perverted, and it’s a mission to set things right.“

An increase of Autoreduction has been observed since a few months in France, especially around last christmas, last operations showed activists being arrested while redistributing Champagne and giving away Foie gras to homeless or unemployed people in the street. The government has decided to sue those radicals for the first time, scared of any amplification of the movement. If the gap between people is keeping on growing, I guess they have all rights to be.

I finally moved from my hotel and found exactly what I needed : a room at the third floor on a little hill without internet and full of sun, granny style was an option, I embraced it.

I am now back in Paris with three more pages to add to the comic.

I usually stay in a very cute hotel when I isolate to work on my comic in Biarritz. This week, my beloved -Miss Marple kind of- hotel was full because I don’t know which conference happened in the city… Whatever… Result, I had to find another one, and….

I did a mistake, yes A MISTAKE !! Really, when we go on family holidays, I always find super nice hotels, good deals, dream places…. And when it comes to me… I fucked up !

So here I am, in the worst hotel in town, my room looks like those hotel rooms near train stations,  the sun is going all day long directly on the building that faces mine, means that if I want to see him, I have to go out somewhere in the city.

Noises : if either the upper floor client or the same floor one on my right wants to go to the toilet and flushes, it’s like if the water was running directly in my bed…

In-room design : I have beautiful screenprints canvas of cheese and herbs, a fake plastic flower pot and the toilet door is a plastic one that screams CLAC CLAC when opened in Zig-zag.

T.V : by chance, as I love to draw while watching T.V, it’s full of stupid channels and I got the shows that help me not to fall from the hotel window such as Malcolm in the middle and global euro-shopping.

So I did over-complained about everything to Mehdi and all my friends and, as I was bored most of the time, it became a joke to ask me what I was doing and where I was.

All of a sudden, I had a group of people getting relayed to help me overcome the situation I’m in.  Actually, many of them were telling me to change hotel or come back to Paris, order room service (haha !), some of them I never had on ichat or BBM started talking to me, telling me jokes and cheering me up like I was on hospital or running Paris-Dakar.

But it’s seems they don’t know me very well. Although I’d be the first one (along with so-me) sticking crisps packagings on bad backstages lights to get a cosy atmos, I’m also super happy to be all alone to work, with the only material I need : a pen and a paper, a rubber also, and I’m not the boring Bourgeoise I just described…

Sorry guys, for not blogging earlier, it’s just because we had… how to say…a very busy weekend, we had many friends sleep at home, it’s like we’re going to open a hotel or a Relais & Chateaux soon, ha !

Sunday I left Paris to work on my comic, as I try to do every month, my goal is to draw a page per day, take a walk on the ocean everyday and eat as much seafood as I can.

Our hotel client A-trak

Our hotel clients Dos Santos and Bouchard

Then, Biarritz…

This very cute lil salad at the famous Miremont grannies salon….

Sorry again for that superficial post but I cannot have inspiration for the comic and the blog same time !

I’ll try to be more funny, efficient, whatever, tomorrow.

My friend Mary Ito is in town !

When I think about Japan, I think of her, Mary has a few stores in the country and she is carrying the coolest brands, has the cutest salespersons, always ready for a pizza-karaoke and hang out looking like living Fafinettes…

Oh don’t forget tonight to come to Bataclan in Paris for the Ed Banger vs StonesThrow party !