{"id":10023,"date":"2023-07-25T11:03:46","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T09:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kingkong-mag.com\/les-slasheuses-2\/"},"modified":"2023-08-02T10:27:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T08:27:12","slug":"les-slasheuses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingkong-mag.com\/en\/les-slasheuses-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Les slasheuses #2: when Instagram becomes a comic book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nWe introduced you to them several months ago, \u2018les.slasheuses\u2019; this Instagram account compiling the illustrated adventures of two somewhat disillusioned freelancers is today available in paper format. This gleaming yellow, 88 page self-published album, proudly taking centre stage in the window displays of several Brussels bookstores, brings together a year of Instagrammed wild imaginings.\n\r\n<\/p>\n\n\n

You might remember that at the end of 2021 they launched their Instagram <\/a>account<\/a>, repurposing the notion of \u2018slasher\u2019 to reveal what lies behind it: their daily lives as aimless freelancers. Each week for a full year, Camille Toussaint and Caroline Renaudi\u00e8re<\/a> posted their quirky anecdotes, in a style mixing pencilled illustrations and acidic-absurdist texts, bringing a real-life touch to a term which has been slightly worn out by the devotees of start-up nation and inspirational hashtags.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst the idea of developing a printed companion to their digital project had been on the duo\u2019s minds for some time, the entirely self-published album finally came out last June. The opportunity for these two autodidacts to discover the specifics of transitioning from the screen to paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Les slasheuses – Caroline Renaudi\u00e8re and Camille Toussaint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Create your own comic book in 1234 steps<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Rythm and structure<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Caroline, the project\u2019s scriptwriter, emphasises, whereas an account uploaded to the networks is constructed as and when the publications come out, each one posted independently of the others, a book is read in one sitting. A first task was therefore to create a narrative arc, then bring some coherence and rhythm to the tale: \u2018we printed and then cut up all the publications, separated the images from the texts, and spent several days reorganising all the elements between them, as a means of getting a basis, an outline,\u2019 explains Camille. \u2018It was an extremely interesting exercise, a genuine first stage in the publishing process.\u2019 The duo therefore ended up with a structure which suited them, and an initial trial print followed some time afterwards. A much-awaited first version, but which unfortunately proved not really, even really not, convincing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018We had settled for working on the order and the structure, which made sense, but not on the rest. For example, we had simply cut-and-pasted the texts alongside the drawings, without any real graphic work or page layout. And let\u2019s be honest, it was awful and unclear.\u2019 This first attempt thus ended up on the scrapheap, but the duo nevertheless retained its structure (as well as a slightly bitter taste, but let\u2019s not dwell on that).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Une publication partag\u00e9e par Les slasheuses (@les.slasheuses)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote>