In Diagonal

Book En Diagonale by Kiblind Editions, by Simon Bournel-Bosson and Maxime Gueugneau :

Size: 19.5 x 24.7 cm
Offset printing
Pages : 84
Second edition at 1000 Ex. 

The duo of illustrator Simon Bournel-Bosson and journalist Maxime Gueugneau set out to discover an exceptional humus: the "Diagonal of Emptiness", a rather unsavoury name for a quarter of France's territory. Indeed, this fictitious line - debatable and disputed - joins together sparsely populated areas along an almost continuous route from the Ardennes to the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. This earned it the disdain and profound ignorance of the rest of France. The aim was twofold: to fight against the lack of knowledge of these territories and, of course, to have as much fun as possible. So Simon and Maxime braved the winds and tides, but above all the freeway service areas, the dodgy bars, the student parties, the pickle sellers, the nuns' corpses, the sandwich shops, the tex-mexes, the ghosts and the sacred can stores, to convince themselves that there was nothing "empty" about this diagonal. In four stages from Saint-Dizier to Pau, over a distance of almost 1,000km, via Auxerre, Commentry, Vézelay, Montluçon, Bar-sur-Aube, Tulle, Uzerche, Tarbes and Lourdes, the two loulous had quite a few adventures, which they are happy to recount to us in text and pictures. Initially published in Kiblind magazine during the 2016-2017 season, the four reports that make up the book have been revised, corrected and expanded with new texts, juicy info and exclusive illustrations. All printed by hand at Atelier Kiblind on a Risography machine.

The Authors:

Simon Bournel Bosson
Little Simon was born in 1987 and grew up in several cities in Central France, in the bourbonnaises. Life has gradually led him to Paris where he currently lives. After studying in applied arts at La Martinière-Diderot in Lyon, he joined the beautiful agency Kiblind (ex-Klar) and the magazine Kiblind to become Artistic Director until 2017. Graphic designer, illustrator (and sometimes dancer in his spare time), he has worked, not without pretension, for Stylist, Creative Arte and Ed banger, among others.
→ instagram.com/simonbournelbosson

Maxime Gueugneau
Maxime was born in 1986 in Dijon, the city where he is always very handsome. But, with the existence of pitfalls, he grew up in Lyon, becoming a pure Lyon jus. A graduate of the University of Avignon and the pays du Vaucluse in information and communication, Kiblind opened his arms to him and gave him his heart since 2010 as a journalist. It contributes in extra and sometimes to Trax magazine, Delay, Silliness, La Revue du Cubeetc. You can hear her sweet voice every week on Nova Lyon and every two months on LYL.
→ instagram.com/maxime.gueugneau