Jonathan Intégrale 7-8-9
2010The third Jonathan Intégrale
collects the Jonathan stories 7,8 and 9.
Like the first two Intégrale volumes,
this album contains a dossier and three stories. This time, the dossier consists of an
interview with Cosey about the creation of the three stories in the book. So there is no
piece of a second writer, like in the earlier books.
Personally, I prefer this single piece
dossier. It gives more room to present source material and Cosey's story about the albums.
Cosey told me that the colour corrections
of the Jonathan stories would be executed for the albums 1 to 8. So story 9 (Neal &
Sylvester), colours by Fraymond, should not have been digitally enhanced. In the
Intégrale itself I could not find any details if this is true. The printing quality of
the Intégrale is so much superior than that of my old editions, that the colours are much
better, corrected or not.
Two covers
The cover of the Jonathan Intégrale is a
remake of sorts of the original (1981) Kate cover. As in the first two Intégrales, Cosey
has retaken the main componenet of his collage like drawing (in this case Kate) and has
he-shaped the image as a scene from the album.
Take a look at this cover of 'I love
English' (1988)... although it is a very bad quality picture, compare the Jonathan figure
with the Intégrale cover.
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