Comic book serie : Rotor

After years of silence, Yann Taillefer returns with Rotor — a world-book, an autonomous editorial machine, a meticulously engineered mental trap. Rotor is not simply a comeback: it is a headfirst dive into the neuroses, obsessions, and mechanical deviations of an author as discreet as he is radical. Across its pages, Taillefer constructs a bestiary of senseless machines, absurd mechanisms, production lines doomed to inefficiency, useless inventions designed with obsessive precision. Everything here spins, interlocks, creaks, and repeats — without ever truly reaching completion. And yet, each device comes with its blueprints, diagrams, and manufacturing secrets, as if the absurd could be rationalized, documented, archived. Of course, none of it serves any purpose. And that is precisely where everything begins. Rotor is a book about the perpetual motion of the mind, about the impossibility of stopping, about the unsettling beauty of systems that feed on themselves until exhaustion. A disguised reflection on labor, production, progress, and the mental mechanics of creation itself. Every page bears Taillefer’s unmistakable graphic genius: a line of surgical precision, rigorous composition, and a constant deviation that tips the rational into joyful alienation. A rare, almost ghostlike author, Yann Taillefer delivers a dense, demanding, deeply inhabited work. Rotor goes far beyond the artbook format: it is a mise en abyme of its creator’s twisted mind, a distorted mirror held up to the reader, a narrative machine with no beginning and no end. Put your finger into the gears of Rotor. But be warned: once the mechanism is set in motion, it never stops — and you will not come out unscathed.