Cartoonist Paschal Blanchet’s White Rapids is an absolutely beautiful book. It’s Art Deco, 1950s commercial design meets quaint story about a town built-up around a hydro dam.
This is the first English translation of Blanchet’s graphic novel about the rise and fall of the small northern Quebec town of White Rapids.
White Rapids was founded in 1928 and was the brain child of the Shawinigan Water & Power Company. It was a fully-equipped, self-contained community for workers of the dam and their families.
Pascal Blanchet’s illustrations are incredibly refined yet astonishingly simple.
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White Rapids by Pascal Blanchet is published by Drawn & Quarterly.