REVIEWS Alternative current Hawaii, by Matt Broersma. Editions FLBLB. 10 euros. Tobias Grimm is a world-famous investigative journalist. But this time, it isn't really his work that leads him to San Francisco. A none-too-clean affair, which he only partly remembers, has obliged him to flee New York. Holed up in a lousy hotel room, Tobias barely has the time to get his head together; already, visitations of a doubtful past are bringing themselves back into his memory... Published in the collection Boeuf-Mironton from Poitiers publishers FLBLB, "Hawaii" is the first album from a young American author living in London, Matt Broersma, whose work one can already appreciate in the anthology "Comix 2000" from L'Association, and in the satirical review FLBLB. From within the English-language alternative scene, Matt Broersma offers a story blasted out in a nervous graphical style, a portrait of America far from Hollywood stereotypes. Nouvelles de Falaise, March 2002 A rotten past Hawaii, a dream destination that the great investigative journalist Tobias Grimm would far prefer to San Francisco, and the seedy background noise of a squalid hotel. But there's urgency! Urgency to make himself forget the rotten past that, alas, is quickly forcing itself back into his memories. Thus commences the first album of a young American author living in London, Matt Broersma, whose work has already been seen in the monumental Comix 2000 (L'Association) and in the review FLBLB. Nourished on comics both American and European (Canniff, Hergé, Pratt, Chaland...), influenced by the painting and graphic arts of the turn of the last century, the author finds his inspiration in the living, the true. Here he brings to light the hidden face of the United States, that of the donwtrodden and the outsiders. A blowout of a story, that the author wrote in a mode of improvisation and which draws on his past as a journalist in San Francisco. Pavillon Rouge, March 2002 go back