This book, which Irene Jacob likes to give to her loved ones.

“My father loved to paint. In another life, he might have made this his career. He was the one who took me to see all the Walt Disney movies in particular. He also made us little flip books where Donald and Mickey would run or jump and have fun recreating the comic book characters The cat Philip Geluk with him. useful bubbles in painful daily life when he was sick. The cat is also the doctor’s laugh to me. But above all, it is a universal and transgenerational comic that we offer a lot in my family. My brothers who live in the United States are always happy to receive them. it is a form of humor that binds them to their language.The drawing is little different, but Geluk has such an art of language, syllogism and punch that his character’s expressions seem to be constantly changing.

The cat questions our certainties and brings the irrational into the rational. “I answer all the questions that people don’t ask.” Through his funny and poetic monologues, he plays with time, situations, language and our knowledge, a bit like Georges Perec. I think, for example, his horoscope, both of the first degree and very unusual. “Fishes. Friday is your day Taurus, avoid trips to Spain. Cancer. pass screening: Libra. Try to lose weight.” He doesn’t have a red nose, but he’s a clown. The cat comes to our rescue when we take ourselves too seriously. Like antipodes, it slips into busy everyday life to brighten it up. His albums are like an animal, good company.” M.L.