Will - Lot 30

Will WILL TIF ET TONDU Les Ressuscités (T.20), Dupuis 1973 Original cover. The title is a reproduction affixed to the original. Signed. India ink and white gouache on paper 25.5 × 36.3 cm (10.04 × 14.29 in.) Les Ressuscités bears the same title as an episode of Félix that Tillieux drew for Héroïc-Albums. The story takes us back to Brittany, a region for which Tillieux had a deep affection, having taken refuge there during the Second World War. In this adventure, Tif et Tondu are confronted with a series of strange disappearances: people who have officially died suddenly reappear in different places, causing panic. In the course of the investigation, our heroes discover that behind these "resurrections" lies an organization that uses look-alikes and psychological manipulation to mislead public opinion and destabilize the victims. The so-called dead reappear to capture inheritances, businesses or organize political blackmail. In this album, Will takes his characters through a wide variety of environments: laboratories, eerie mansions, working-class neighborhoods... He perfectly conveys the fantastic ambiguity of the plot, both in the nocturnal ambiences and in the action scenes, as here, when our two heroes take shovels under the drizzle to search the ground around the precipice, hoping to uncover underground passages.