ΟΛΟ ΔΕΞΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΠΑΡΑΔΕΙΣΟ / ALL THE WAY RIGHT FOR PARADISE
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Autor:
SOFIA ROUSSOU
Country:
Greece (GR)
Book Theme:
Graphic novels, Manga and more
Publisher:
ELIVATON
Publishing Year:
2024
Sofia Roussou was born and raised in Syros. She studied Photography at the Greek Center of Photography in Athens and History of Art at the University of Vienna, where she also attended courses in Comparative Theology, Turkology and Byzantium. For the last 16 years she has lived and worked in Vienna.
Her involvement with the 9th Art is long-standing and multifaceted. She has collaborated with several fanzines and has participated in comic anthologies and group exhibitions. She has worked for a decade as a political cartoonist and is a member of the Austrian Society for Research and Education for Comics.
As a creator, she prefers socio-political issues and enjoys experimenting with the limits of the medium, with different visual and narrative techniques and different styles.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
In a small, idyllic village, which is symbolically named “Paradise”, the community is shaken when money starts disappearing from the church fund. Four childhood friends gather one night in the local tavern to discuss the theft. One of them is suspected… but perhaps things are not as they seem. What begins as a cheerful evening of laughter, memories, and wine slowly turns into a field of revelations: personal rivalries, political disagreements, hidden conservatism, prejudices, and long-buried secrets come to light. By dawn, nothing will be the same.
With dark humor and a theatrical tone, Roussou holds up a harsh mirror to a society draped in “common sense”, tradition, and stereotypes — yet rapidly changing. Through the tavern-as-stage and its vivid characters (the mayor/tavern owner, the doctor, the church warden, the migrant waitress) the story exposes tensions of power, identity, gender, origin, and morality. The artwork mirrors the rising tension: the colors, the composition of panels, and the transition from bright hues to violet-pink-sepia tones, and finally to black and white, all contribute to the sense of the village’s peaceful façade collapsing.
“All the way right for Paradise” is a multilayered graphic novel that, through the social satire, and complex human relationships, reveals how fragile the illusion of “normality” truly is.
