Collapsed Memories

2044. Antoine Donelli has just died. During his sixty-something years of existence, in a world tormented by the prospect of collapse, this once famous actor wrote to his loved ones in carefully preserved illustrated notebooks. He questions the meaning of life, the relationship to money, the mystery of creation, submission to authority, the search for happiness... Over the course of his reflections an existential question emerges: but how is have we got there? Found after his death, these notebooks constitute the raw material of these Collapsed Memoirs: forty singular chapters in uncertain balance, alternately incredulous or resigned, on the edge of the catastrophe that threatens. By evoking with sincerity and modesty the itinerary of this secret character whose face we can only glimpse, Baya observes with accuracy and courage our disillusioned tomorrows. A meditation on human nature, this comic is also a magnificent exercise in graphic freedom. An epistolary introspection nourished by composite and vibrant images, around an existential fear: the end of our civilization.