Comicalités (Dec 2017)
La sportivité des techniques corporelles d’un héros éminemment moderne : Rahan
Abstract
Based on an anthropo-historical approach, the aim of this study is to analyse how the draftsman – André Chéret – depicts his hero in the Rahan’s comic strip. In a pre-historic period, the artist plunges his young readers into a world where a hero uses sports gestures very close to sports of the 1970s-1980s. The sporting standard raises the hero of this fellow men and reinforces his identification with his readership adept to sport. However, André Chéret does not hesitate to distort the pratical reality of sport gesture to represent it better. He so becomes emancipated to sports efficiency criteria to return the movement handwriting more visible. Finally, the sports standard is not the intention of André Chéret, it is only a way into the moral project of the scenario.
