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Krabucket

La rue principale!

La rue principale!

Jun 20, 2018

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Cynthia Sonier

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This is one of the strips I'm most proud of. Most of Sooky's dialogue are lyrics of the Colocs' "La Rue Principale", who sang about the decline of rural towns, and big box marts driving out small stores in the 1990s, way before it was cool.

The landscapes, closed stores are real buildings from the town where I was born...or what's left of it.

It's one of those strips that are incredibly culture-specific, yet very international. I drew Tracadie, New Brunswick. The Cracked.com article that was another big inspiration behind this story arc was written by a guy talking about rural Illinois, the Coloc's late frontman Dédé Fortin talked about his hometown of Normandin, Québec and even my british friend Andrew Pilcher told me he was reminded of his wife Linda's home town when he saw it on the old Gocomics site...

Very local yet very universal...

...unfortunately.

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C'est une des BD dont je suis la plus fière. Les paroles de Sooky sont presque une transcription de "La Rue Principale", du grand Dédé Fortin avec ses Colocs. J'peut pas m'empêher de chanter la chanson à chaque fois que j'entend dire qu'on fout par terre une autre batisse du centre-ville de mon vieux village de Tracadie.

C'est un de ces episodes à la fois très local et très universel. J'ai dessiné Tracadie en Acadie, l'article qui m'a en grande partie inspiré cette histoire a été écri par un américain de l'Illinois, Fortin parlait de son village au Québec et même un ami britannique y a reconnu le village de sa femme dans le sud des Etats-Unis.

Cette gangrène sociale est universelle dans les campagnes occidentales.

Trop universelle à mon gout.

#Poverty #Rural #conservative #Small_Town #urban_decay #francophone #HOMMAGE #canada #village #ghost_town

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Like many a kid who moved from a conservative countryside to a liberal city, I can go from hating to loving my hometown about 30 times in a day.

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Comme bien du monde qui est né dans une petite ville de droite et a déménagé dans une grande ville de gauche, je peut passer de détester
à adorer mon village 30 fois par jours...
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La rue principale!

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