THE SECRET OF THE MARAIS

If you owned magic wool: would you sell it for profit, or knit a sweater for your wicked sister? Welcome to the world of Sid Sharp, where fairy-tale characters have union demands. Beatrice is gentle, curious, and talks to spiders. Her sister Magnolia, on the other hand, tears off their legs and grumbles all the time. Because Magnolia is always complaining about being cold, Beatrice goes into the forest to find something to warm her up and returns with magic wool gifted by the swamp spider-witch, guardian of the forest and a firm believer in sustainability. When Magnolia sees the magic sweater, indestructible and stain-proof, knitted by her sister, she smells profit. The old house is immediately transformed into a knitting factory...

Freely inspired by an Andersen tale, this graphic story with sharp humor tackles capitalism, workers' rights, and ecology with the disconcerting lightness of Grimm's fairy tales or Tim Burton. Halfway between a children's tale and a sweet nightmare, Sid Sharp's striking aesthetic plunges us into a world as strange as it is biting.