Charles BurnsDédales

“Subtly intertwining cinema and real life, Daedalus is the first volume in a series that builds its narrative around the relationship between the unconscious and its representation. This theme, which draws its sources from the foundations of psychoanalysis, is here declined by Charles Burns through incredible sequences where dreams become the source of inspiration for fiction. For the author, as for Brian, the central character of the series, the camera and the pencil become introspective tools that create a bridge between imagination and reality. Burns has fun seeding us in different levels of reading to better reinforce the feeling of strangeness that emanates from his illustrations. In the process, he pays a brilliant tribute to fantasy cinema and its ability to act as a distorting mirror of existence.”