The editorial production of comics is so vast that any attempt to report on it,
even by restricting oneself to following a thematic thread, seems doomed tofailure, especially in one page. However, we have tried to present here someemblematic fiction titles, carrying a more or less libertarian project and moreor less materializable in the short or medium term. ---- If the notoriety of L'An01 is no longer to be proven, little is known that before shooting his film Gébéfirst produced a comic strip. More precisely, he launched a major consultationwith the readers of Hara Kiri whom he invited to imagine what could happen if weapplied without further delay the watchword: "We stop everything! ". Issue afterissue, at the beginning of the 1970s, he put into images some of the manyproposals received, some of these famous "steps aside".It was from this material that he then had to draw to write his screenplay. Itwas a question of getting out of "the enslavement of the mind by a profiteconomy" by replacing it with a "simple subsistence economy allowing thedevelopment of the mind", a "parallel, parasitic economy, living on thecapitalist economy and emptying it of its substance".The second resolution recommended that "after a total downtime, only the servicesand productions whose lack will prove intolerable will be revived - withreluctance. Then "individuals no longer consenting to delegate their powers, allforms of authority, as well as hierarchies of all kinds, will lose their gripwith their reason for being, very naturally and painlessly".In 2014, L'Association publishers had the wise idea of republishing all of theseboards in one volume, accompanied by the DVD of the film[1].The 1789 of the future"The French Revolution of 1789 told to those who will make the next one", such isthe program proposed by Grégory Jarry and Otto T. in their Little history of theFrench revolution[2]. As the country is on the verge of collapse following ageneral uprising, the National Assembly calls on Louis XX to restore order. It ishe who recounts the main events of the French Revolution... "to transform the onewho gets up into a wet firecracker", as before in 1968, in 1871 during the ParisCommune, in 1848 or in 1830, to "save the 'essential' while allowing the peopleto believe that they are free and sovereign.During this time, we follow in image the events which agitate the country:unlimited general strike, requisition of second homes as social housing,establishment of the free and self-managed commune of Neuilly before manyothers,... The grievances are numerous: public transport free common, stoppingthe repayment of the debt and nuclear power plants, suppression of pesticides andprofits, nationalization of all banks and establishment of local currencies. Ah!Ah! Ah! by Henri Salvador is declared the new national anthem. The cities areemptying out in favor of the countryside. Europe and then the rest of the worldwill follow.This omnipresent humor hides a deep reflection and a real political purpose, areal utopian program. Denouncing the stranglehold of banks, finance and bigbusiness on institutions, the progressive privatization of the common goods ofsociety, the invention of a new language to speak to the people, "a language thatsays the opposite of what 'we think while in action we do the opposite of what wesay', the questioning of social achievements, the authors above all show anotherpossible world. Possible because in 1789, it took fifteen days for the800-year-old monarchy to crumble. Possible because a year earlier, no one couldbelieve it or even imagine it.What if agriculture had not been invented?The same shocking duo also offered the description of a post-collapse society, intheir equally earthy 300,000 years to get there[3], while telling... what wouldhave become of humanity if agriculture and farming had never been invented. Theycertainly idealize primitive societies a little but manage to synthesizebrilliantly (and without ever losing their sense of humor) many current issues,their origin, their consequences if nothing changes.Benjamin Flao, in The Age of Water[4], imagined a near future in which risingwaters forced the survivors to take refuge in cities where they gave up theirfreedoms for their safety, while others try to organize themselves individuallyor collectively in floating dwellings. If power relations still dominate,questions are addressed and could change the situation in the following volume(s).In direct continuity with this approach of imagining another present, anotherpossible, Vito imagines an "ecological revolution" in Utopique![5]He proposes toreverse the process of metropolisation by developing a network of cities on ahuman scale, villages and plots dedicated to permaculture, connected by rail andadministered through participatory democracy. Far from a simple declaration ofintent, it multiplies specific proposals, plans and supporting diagrams.Less immediately concrete: the story of Joanne Lebster, by Marc Chinal andBertrand Mathieu[6]. In the near future, a grandmother tells her granddaughter asignificant episode from her youth... which shocked the whole world! It allstarts with a discussion between friends from which a slightly crazy idea arises:to build a society without money... Moreover, the little girl who listens to thisstory is very surprised to discover the concepts of advertising oroverproduction.! We therefore follow three comrades, who begin by standing forelection, before changing strategy... Through the many exchanges of arguments,followed by their achievements, we are embarked on this adventure, and by closingthe comic strip, we wants to believe it!In short, comics, and fiction in general, can feed the imagination hampered bypropaganda that incites resignation and sets up our reality as an unsurpassablemodel and without alternative (the famous least bad of systems). It is a questionof making people believe again in other possibilities, far beyond militantcircles. In short, comics, and fiction in general, put history back on the road.Mélanie (UCL Grand-Paris sud) and Ernest London (UCL Le Puy)To validate[1]Gébé, L'An 01, L'Association editions, Paris, 2014, 128 p. + DVD of the movie.[2]Grégory Jarry and Otto T., Short history of the French revolution, FLBLBeditions, Poitiers, 2015, 184 p.[3]Grégory Jarry and Otto T., 300,000 years to get there, FLBLB editions,Poitiers, 2019, 138 p[4]Benjamin Flao, The Water Age, Futuropolis editions, Paris, 2021, 164 p.[5]Vito, Utopique!, self-published, Hellemmes (59), 2020 140 p.[6]Marc Chinal and Bertrand Mathieu, Joanne Lebster. The beginning of a newworld, RJTP editions, September 2016, 55 pages.https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Bande-dessinee-De-l-An-01-a-aujourd-hui-l-utopie-a-portee-de-main_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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