Ketchup Boy

At the end of the 1970's young Lucien Bastard has just started playing the bass guitar and only one thing matters to him: music. Travelling from Nantes to Paris calling himself Ketchup Boy, the young lad from the sticks confronts the realities of being a rocker (sex, drugs, injustice, disappointment), all the while endeavouring to keep body and soul together.
A mix of fiction and the writer's memories accurately adapted by the illustrator, this graphic novel evokes the "post-punk" years, a golden moment in time when French rock, graphic books and the specialist press had boundless creative energy.

 

The Illustrator

 

Guillaume Berteloot was born in 1964. He drew Les Saigneurs du rail (The Rail Slaughterers) (Glénat 1992), an adaptation of Maupassant's Le Horlà (Tarmeil 1986). He works in advertising and communication, notably for the Atlantic shipyards. He has adapted French literary classics into erotic books and continues to work for the erotic press (La Vie Parisienne).