Release of the second volume of the comic strip “La Tempête” by EDP Monaco editions –
On October 2, 2020, storm Alex devastated the Roya, Tinée and Vésubie valleys and caused the death of several people. A year later, a comic strip, “La Tempête”, was published by Monegasque EDP: a work that is both supportive and memorial. Yvon Bertorello (screenwriter of several comic strips such as “Notre-Dame de Paris, la nuit du feu”, published by Glénat editions) and Cedric Fernandez (he made many albums including “Saint-Exupéry, the lord of the sands” and “Notre-Dame de Paris, the night of the fire”), the authors of the comic strip, had at heart to retrace almost hour by hour the drama of the storm Alex. They relied on many testimonials inhabitants, elected officials, firefighters to describe the unfolding of events but also to recount the long work of reconstruction that followed.
“The Tempest”: a second volume on reconstruction
Friday October 28, in Nice, on the terrace of the Lympia Gallery, the second volume of “La Tempête” was launched, in the presence of Eric Ciotti, deputy and President of the Finance Commission of the Alpes-Maritimes Department, of the author Yvon Bertorello, the designer Cédric Fernandez and many personalities. If the first part concerned, in great detail, almost hour by hour, the drama of this destructive storm, this second volume, entitled “Chronicle of a reconstruction”, sets out to show the progress of the sites, the commitment of the elected officials but also the associative and private initiatives. In his speech, Eric Ciotti insisted on the importance of this “work of memory that we must tirelessly carry out, by putting words, images, symbols on this dark chapter but which is now part of our history. »
Since Wednesday, October 26, volume 2 “The storm Alex, chronicle of a reconstruction” is on sale in French and Monegasque bookstores at the price of €18.90. As with the first volume, 5 euros will be donated to the Departmental Fund of the Alpes-Maritimes in favor of the victims of the storm Alex.