Limited Edition: Volume 1

Europe Comics
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Claire is a thirtysomething neonatal nurse who is becoming increasingly discouraged about her prospects of getting into a long-term relationship and starting a family. She thinks she may have finally met her man in Franck—if not a Prince Charming then at least a friendly and compatible person—but societal pressures and gender norms seem to rear their heads at every turn and Claire begins to wonder if it will ever be possible for her to be happy with another person on her own terms. Aude Picault's chronicle of everyday romance is full of wit and sympathy but it is also backed up by a bibliography of feminist essays and studies of gender relations, offering a valuable and complicated case study of the challenges facing modern women.

About the author

Born in 1979, Aude Picault earned a degree in visual communication at Les Arts déco, the renowned art and design school in Paris. Her first step toward comics came in 2004, with the publication of "MoiJe," followed by a quick succession of other projects: "Papa" (L'Association, 2006), "Les mélo maniaks" (Glénat, 2008), "Transat" (Delcourt, 2009), and "Comtesse" (Les Requins marteaux, 2010), before teaming up with Fabrice Parme for the comic book adaptation of the cartoon "Famille pirate" (Dargaud, 2012; "Pirate Family," Europe Comics). She continued her collaboration with Dargaud in the years to come with "Parenthèse patagone" (2015), recounting her sailing trip around Patagonia, "Idéal Standard" (2017; "Limited Edition," Europe Comics, 2018), an acclaimed graphic novel relating the daily life of a thirty-something woman, taking the reader beyond the usual love-life clichés, and "Amalia" (2022; Europe Comcis in English), a graphic novel about an over-worked mother faced with burnout and a world in ecological crisis.

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