This comic strip does not tell a story, but is a documentary about the Amoco Cadiz tragedy. On 16 March 1978, this super tanker ran aground on the Breton coast off Portsall. In a few days, 220,000 tonnes of crude oil will escape from the hull and spread along 360 km of coastline. Polluting and killing many birds and other animal species.
By choosing to stage her family, Gwenola Morizur decided to explain the human side of the tragedy. His grandfather, Alphonse Arzel, was mayor of Ploudalmézeau at the time of the disaster. He is the one who will fight without ever giving up for 14 years until he succeeds in convicting the oil company, which chartered the boat.
This comic, nicely drawn by Fanny Montgermont, with high quality watercolours, is not a story of a boat, but that of the earthlings who seek to defend their country with the small means they have.
History reads like an adventure, but the echoes it awakens bring up this great legal battle that made it possible to put in place the famous polluter pays principle. The contemporaries of 1978 will remember these images and the youngest will understand why it is important to fight for beautiful causes.
- Grand Angle Publishing
- 29.8 x 22.1 cm
- 80 pages
- 17,90 €
