Jonathan Intégrale 4-5-6
2009
The second Jonathan Intégrale collects
the Jonathan stories 4, 5 and 6. It is preceded by a dossier - an interview with Cosey and
an essay by Claude Levenson.
Like the first Intégrale, the dossiers
shows many unknown sketches and studies. Personally, I think it is a pity that sketches
(the character studies) from the years of the albums and sketches from a much later period
(e.g. the sketch for a later drawing for National Geographic - later retaken again for the
cover of Echo) are shown without dates. I even think that in a dossier, only sketches or
studies that were made in preparation for the albums should be shown - an editorial
choice.
The photographs are beautiful and invite
to compare the albums with the documents - but here too, I think, some of the photographs
are from a later date.
Overall, the album is a jewel, just as
the first of the Intégrales. The colour corrections have been applied with care and
modesty; the character of the original drawings and colours have been maintained while the
colours are more vivid and fresh than in the original editions (again, I compared with my
old dutch editions).
Two covers
The cover of the Jonathan Intégrale is a
re-make of the cover of the first album edition of 1980.
I think the new cover is a far better
composition. The 'collage' like first cover is redrawn as what could have been an actual
scene from the album.
All items from the first cover are
retaken in the new cover (the old colonel Westmacott, Shangarila, Jonathan, the villa),
except for the salesman David Jones. He seems to be replaced... by a horse. Isn't it
strange? (To add to this: for most characters of the albums, the dossier shows character
studies, but not for this poor David Jones...)
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