Black Swan

ALEX ALICE

Black Swan

Illustration - Pigment print
Smooth fine art 100% cotton paper, 230 gsm &mdash 50 × 70 cm
Limited edition of 50 copies, numbered and signed

Special series seal

Alex Alice : “Cygne Noir” is Captain Lohengrin’s aethership, facing the mystery of the asteroid belt. As the culminating image of the inaugural volume of my new series, this programmatic piece is, for me, a promise of adventures yet to come…

The original is an ink drawing, but to achieve the final screened rendering characteristic of manga printing, I process and enhance the image digitally in sepia. It is this stage &mdash the last one before the page is handed over to the publisher &mdash that French Paper Art Club presents here.

Following the success of Le Château des étoiles, Alex Alice explores new territories and opens a major new chapter in his body of work with Les Chants du Cygne Noir, an ambitious and spectacular new manga series.

1880: the conquest of space is in full swing. Beyond Mars, the European powers compete for control of the Ring, the asteroid belt. But the ships that venture there vanish without a trace…

Young Benesh, searching for her brother’s murderer, boards an interplanetary liner bound for Jupiter. Just as she is about to exact her revenge, pirates storm the ship. The encounter is explosive. Will Benesh join Captain Lohengrin and the crew of the Black Swan in their quest for an extraterrestrial relic with strange powers?