Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Blog

Check it out: Not everything we collect is old, American, or even made of paper…

This piece is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Delightfully satirical of American culture, Yannick Bourg and Philippe Huger created this 11 full-page brightly colored molded plastic three-dimensional comicbook-in-a-box that measures 13×18 inches that is Le Grand Rêve Americain (The Great American Dream)!

My knowledge of French is incredibly rusty, so I’ll go ahead and copy the item description: “…presenting an elaborate comic strip parodying and caricaturing American culture as seen from the outside, replete with gangsters, fast cars, and above all, exaggerated sexuality, featuring among other things repeated images of rather dramatically oversized female breasts” … “The story and execution resulted from a collaboration between Philippe Huger and Yannick Bourg, who adapted their work to a new technology developed by Philippe Schléret and Véronique Hauss. The molded plastic creates literal three-dimensionality and greatly enhances the effect of the caricatures and exaggeration inherent in the comic strip.”