Graphic Novel by Philippe Girard

France / Canada 2021

Title	Leonard Cohen Sur un Fil (French edition) Leonard Cohen On A Wire (English edition)
Author	Philippe Girard
Country & Year	France 2021 (French edition, March 2021) Canada 2021 (English edition, November 2021
Publisher	Casterman, France (French edition) Drawn and Quarterly, Canada (English edition)
Pages	120 pages
Notes	ISBN 978-2203203976 (French edition) ISBN 978-2203203976 (English edition)
Summary	"Leonard Cohen opens in Los Angeles on the last night of the man’s life in 2016. Alone in his final hours, the beloved writer and musician ponders his existence in a series of flashbacks that reveal the ups and downs of a storied career. A young Cohen traded in the promise of steady employment in his family’s Montreal garment business for the unlikely path of a literary poet. His life took another sharp turn when, already in his thirties, he recorded his first album to widespread international acclaim. Along the way he encountered a who’s who of musical luminaries, including Lou Reed, Nico, Janis Joplin, and Joni Mitchell. And then there’s Phil Spector, the notorious music impresario who held a gun to Cohen’s head during a coke-fueled, all-night recording session. Later in Cohen’s life, there’s the story of "Hallelujah," one of his most famous songs, and its slow rise from relative obscurity when first recorded in the 1980s to its iconic status a decade later with covers by John Cale and Jeff Buckley. And the period when Cohen went broke after his manager embezzled his lifetime savings, which ironically sparked an unlikely career resurgence and several worldwide tours in the 2000s. Written with careful attention to detail and drawn with a palette of warm, lush colors by the Quebec-based cartoonist Philippe Girard, Leonard Cohen is an engaging portrait of a cultural icon." Quoted from CBC News/Marilla Steuter-Martin: "The book’s cover shows Cohen walking through the Golden Square Mile, carrying a guitar case and puffing on a cigarette. “He’s coming back from a concert. He’s passing by Ben’s Deli — an important restaurant for Montreal and for Leonard Cohen. On his guitar, there are pictograms which serve as winks to themes in the book,” said Girard. “It’s Leonard Cohen at the end of his work day, probably at night, heading home like any other working Montrealer, not in a limousine or a helicopter, but on foot, walking the streets of his city." Sample page:

Thanks to Dominique Boile for the information