The Marchenoir Library
Whatever happened to Marchenoir?
Enter the Marchenoir Library, a different kind of graphic novel from A. Degen, an artist Michael DeForge (Lose, Ant Colony, Leaving Richard's Valley) says is "one of the smartest and funniest cartoonists in the game." A gallery of the most beautiful covers from the beloved series, Marchenoir, is all that's left of the mystery of Marchenoir, ex-celebrity singer/songwriter working as a superheroine to pay off her debts, and defend our dreams and reality, as she searches for a terrestrial paradise. Can you solve a book by its covers?
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For all the cacophonous action and psychedelic experiences depicted in the book, there remains a solid continuity between images, making the book incredibly fun to read. But because the contents of those images are so dense and deceptive, he also produces a book that requires--and invites--closer engagement. -- A.V. Club
Degen has come to such an incredible, fully realized idiom, at this point he might be to '90s anime what Jim Woodring is to Looney Tunes type stuff. -- The Comics Journal
Bursting at the seams with information, if not words (barring its gloriously, deliriously verbose chapter titles), there's so much here to partake in, to parse, and to ponder over, that one scarcely knows where to begin -- but for all that, by the time all is said and done, this hermetically-sealed, inventively self-referential work not only makes perfect sense, it goes the extra mile and actually imparts a genuine feeling of (oh God, here I go again) magic upon its readers. -- The Daily Grindhouse
Each page is full of images and references, but Degen commands his characters, their emotions, the story's pacing, and the movement throughout in a masterful way, making words unnecessary, and potentially superfluous. -- Sequential State
