{"id":14,"date":"2026-01-15T06:53:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/2026\/01\/15\/virgile-zidrou-et-mazel-lucy-publient-un-recit-doux-et-lumineux\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:53:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:53:23","slug":"virgile-zidrou-et-mazel-lucy-publient-un-recit-doux-et-lumineux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/virgile-zidrou-et-mazel-lucy-publient-un-recit-doux-et-lumineux\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil: Zidrou and Mazel Lucy publish a sweet and luminous story"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The author and screenwriter Beno\u00eet Drousie, known as Zidrou, has just published, with the designer Lucy Mazel, a graphic novel which addresses medical assistance in dying. Even if the theme arouses tension, euthanasia is approached with great sensitivity by the author in Virgil[1]<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zidrou says that being a screenwriter means tackling themes that speak of life, and death is the strongest dramatic element that one can evoke. This is why when Lucy Mazel sent her the portrait of a black man that she drew, she expected Zidrou to tell her the story of this character, who according to her, had the idea to be called Virgil. Zidrou subsequently found the idea of \u200b\u200beuthanasia, a theme which, according to him, depicts a death which takes its time, which settles in and which makes poor Virgil drool.<\/p>\n

It is April 2015. Virgil learns that his wife Sol\u00e8ne is leaving him after 40 years of living together: \u201cFrom now on, Virgil was nothing more than a common terrestrial body located six billion kilometers from Sol\u00e8ne. \u00bb (p. 11).<\/p>