Les Larmes d'opium
Delcourt · 2009 · 3 issues
About the series
A poetic, three-issue meditation on addiction and memory from French publisher Delcourt, Les Larmes d'opium (2009–present) follows a writer's haunted journey through the opium dens of 19th-century Paris and Shanghai. The series is most associated with writer and artist Jérôme Félix, whose lush, melancholic watercolors evoke the dreamlike haze of its themes. Though brief in its run, the work stands as a distinctive, atmospheric exploration of the ties between creativity and self-destruction.
