Outline
Mézières and Christin were among the first to approach what we now call ecological politics. Welcome to Alflolol, published in 1972, is the album where they pose most directly the questions which are still highly topical today: to what extent can one put a planet in danger in the name of industrial profitability? Does obsessive production destroy civilisation? Work, is it a necessity, a fatality, a nonsense?
All that in an iconoclastic good humour, because these species of cosmic tramps that are Argol and his family, of course, present chaos in the land of the technocrats. As for their pet, the formidable Goumon, it has the annoying practice of wrecking all that it doesn’t like.
Very quickly the joyous situation (but not for everyone) becomes insoluble.
(translated from the back cover blurb to the French edition)
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