HERMANN

HERMANN JEREMIAH Les Héritiers sauvages (T.3), Fleurus 1980 Original plate no. 23, prepublished in Super As no. 36 October 16, 1979. Signed. India ink on paper 36.4 × 47.2 cm (14.33 × 18.58 in.) Hermann is a provocateur, especially now that he's freed himself from Greg's tutelage and established himself as an author in his own right with his new Jeremiah series. The "good morals" of the Journal Tintin, which was reluctant to show nudity without explicitly justifying it in the script, have gone out the window. Here, Hermann not only pays homage to an old comic strip gag, L'Arroseur arrosé, but also shows his hero, Kurdy, taking a shower with... a helmet screwed on his head, no doubt so as not to ruin his blow-dry. Do you find this baroque? Of course, dear reader, it's because you're like Jeremiah, as Hermann explicitly states: a redneck!