R Magazine, Ex-TeenArt_Issue 1_Authenticity Jun. 2015 | Page 31

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MEETING WITH :

OSEPH KENDY

SELF-TAUGHT
DRAWER &
ILLUSTRATOR

Ayayi : Let us start the interview with a question that torments us since
we discovered your work. Your illustrations speak for themselves, the
reader easily deduces the story they tell, without speech bubbles or
explanatory text. How did you come to this form of expression? Why
this choice?
A : As a child, can we rightly assume that you were an amateur of comics?
What was your favorite cartoon? And to this day?
Joseph : The idea to launch
us into story narration
J : Indeed, I was a fan of comics, I loved “The Adventures of Tintin”, “Asterix and
through images came
the Gauls”, the “Giant Scrooge.” I was crazy about comic magazines. Later I got
from a colleague at Chto know the world of Marvel, and that of Manga. I continue to read them until
evelin Illustration. Chevelin illustration is a team now. For me, these things do not age.
of several Haitian artists,
including myself, which
produces in the field of illustration, comics etc.
One day, Chevelin Pierre
proposed to the team to
launch a series of stories
in pictures. The goal is to
tell a sequential story that
the reader could follow as
easily as possible. Already
a story told without words
seemed ideal for communicating with people,
which unfortunately today read less and less.
The idea interested us all, A : Tell us
J : First, I drew for my sa