Part of Series
En République française, les anciens présidents sont obligés de devenir des super héros au service d'une société secrète. À la fin de son mandat, l'ancien président de la République française François Hollande découvre qu'il a l'obligation de devenir un super héros. Pour l'assister dans sa mission de sauver le monde, il fait appel au dessinateur Mathieu Sapin, déjà initié aux coulisses du pouvoir. Le premier tome d'un feuilleton à l'humour explosif où se mêlent géopolitique et science-fiction, avec dans leurs propres rôles Poutine, Cantona, Sarkozy, le prince Albert de Monaco et la grand-mère de Mathieu Sapin. Ce feuilleton loufoque et hilarant est l'œuvre de Joann Sfar et Mathieu Sapin, réunis dans un duo inédit pour un cocktail explosif qui mêle science-fiction et géopolitique. Le Ministère secret, c'est comme si Le Bureau des Légendes croisait les Avengers : un délire au sommet qui promet des révélations classées secret défense !
Author
Joann Sfar (born August 28, 1971 in Nice) is a French comics artist, comic book creator, and film director. Sfar is considered one of the most important artists of the new wave of Franco-Belgian comics. Many of his comics were published by L'Association which was founded in 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu and six other artists. He also worked together with many of the new movement's main artists, e.g. David B. and Lewis Trondheim. The Donjon series which he created with Trondheim has a cult following in many countries. Some of his comics are inspired by his Jewish heritage as the son of Jewish parents (an Ashkenazi mother and a Sephardic father). He himself says that there is Ashkenazi humor in his Professeur Bell series (loosely based on Joseph Bell), whereas Le chat du rabbin is clearly inspired by his Sephardic side. Les olives noires is a series about a Jewish child in Israel at the time of Jesus. Like Le chat du rabbin, the series contains a lot of historical and theological information. His main influences are Fred and André Franquin as well as Marc Chagall, Chaim Soutine, Will Eisner, Hugo Pratt and John Buscema. From 2009 to 2010, Sfar wrote and directed 'Serge Gainsbourgh: Une Vie Heroique', a biopic of the notorious French songwriter, of whom Sfar is a self-confessed fanatic. The film, which draws substantially on Sfar's abilities as a comic book artist through its extensive use of fantasy artwork, animation and puppetry, was released in 2010 to general critical acclaim.
