Pouvoir de l’image et image du pouvoir ou la lutte par la bande dessinée

Abstract

Il était une fois Hassan II (Once Upon a Time, Hassan II), a comic strip published in 1979 by King Hassan II, and On famine bien les rats (We Starve Right the Rats) by Abdelaziz Mourid, another comic strip published in 2000, are two contrasting visions of Morocco, one being presented by the King of Morocco and the other by a prisoner under the reign of the first. The first comic is an autobiography telling the journey of a prince/king – happy childhood, education, accession to the throne, reign, attempted assassinations, political and military victories. This is the Image of Power. The second comic is the story of political prisoners subjected to physical and psychological torture methods in cells where they were languishing like rats. On the one hand, it is the official history and the rigor of Absolute Power; on the other hand, it is the violence suffered by prisoners defying this Power. These are two worlds which 'ignore each other' and which confront each other, among other things, through images.