Peanuts minus Schultz - Ilan Manouach

Of all the amazing things that exist on earth, one in particular fascinates Ilan Manouach: counterfeiting.

In her early youth, her mother came back from Vietnam with under her arm 3 illustrations of Tintin produced illegally and especially thousands of kilometers from the sacrosanct Belgium, cradle of the little reporter, and hunting ground for Moulinsart lawyers.

Fascinated by this work of copy by copiers who perhaps did not even know who was the famous reporter of the little twentieth, Illan will carry out a large-scale experiment around one of the most famous dogs of the ninth art: Snoopy. He will therefore take 30 Schultz strips that he will send to the four corners of the world in order to have them reproduced by various companies.

The result is over a thousand illustrations which are therefore unveiled here in this 663-page book, a work halfway between artistic approach and philosophical reflection.