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Fairytales in BD: Les contes du Korrigan

"The Tales of the Korrigan" is a set of BD working as an anthology of tales from the French region of Bretagne (Brittany, or "Small-Britain" - to oppose it to "Great-Britain").

Each of these BDs feature a korrigan storyteller known as Koc'h, who tells to the reader various traditional Bretagne fairytales - with the twist that the various fairytales take place in specific time periods and areas of the Bretagne region (for example one traditional story is presented as taking place during the time of Ancient Gaul, while another will be in a big city of the 19th century). While starting out as a simple anthology, slowly each issue builds a tale around Koc'h, his rise in fame, his rivalries and his love in the fairy-world.

Each issue has a specific theme uniting the fairytales. The first volumes were centered around motifs (one is about the Devil, another about the merfolk, yet another around justice), before moving onto specific geographical locations as Koc'h leaves France to explore the British Isles (one volume is about Ireland, another about Scotland, etc...).

Fun fact: Despite these BDs often being placed as "for children" on the shelves because it is a set of fairytale adaptations with often an humoristic tone, they are definitively aimed at a mature audience due to not shying away from the nudity and gore typical of traditional folktales.