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IRL, a hyperrealist dive in the bowels of Darknet

Published on September 28, 2025

Inspired by true stories and co -signed by a police officer, this graphic novel tells behind the scenes of a encrypted universe where crime prosper.Only one rule: never meet in IRL (in real life, in real life). Trafficking in computer viruses, drugs and weapons of all kinds, clandestine counters to find a pledge killers or more true than life identity papers ... Each dive into the world of Darknet allows you to discover a thousand traffic and is the subject of so many fantasies. To discover TV this evening: find our selection of the day In an unprecedented way in the world of comics, IRL published by Glénat reveals with striking realism the corners of this buried and encrypted web where crime prosperous.For good reason, one of the two coscenarists is none other than a national police commissioner who, for more than twenty years, has bathed in the investigation and the fight against magnitude criminal groups.Signing under the pseudo of Henri Scala, this great cop passionate about comics - his family library is full of more than 10,000 volumes -, has already plunged readers into the sulfurous world of the Indics with Gost 111, crowned with the Fauve Polar SNCF in Angoulême in 2021, before returning a year later with Cristal 417, who traces the first steps of a youngCriminal brigade. Advertisement Written in the wake of dying in the arms of my nanny (2024), a third album devoted to the middle of the narcotrafics, Irl tells this time the daily life of Roxane, a student of Iranian origin, which is soaking in the troubled waters of the Dark Web to sell false papers to migrants.Many by activism, a little to make ends meet.Only one rule: never meet with principals, nor any customer in "IRL" ("in real life" in real life). To make a big blow, Roxane one day transgresses this pact.His life suddenly changes from the virtual to a real dotted with threats.Until the point of no return.Served by the trait of Jérôme Savoyen, a very young and talented designer who gives birth here to his first album, Irl is a very educational graphic novel on cybercrime and its deadly effects on youth.This thriller, co-written by Mark Eacersall, a Franco-British screenwriter from audiovisual, is inspired by real cases.From start to finish, the story is breathless, hypnotic like a dive into the bowels of the web. "IRL", at Glénat.Scenario Mark Aecersall and Henri Scala.Drawing and colors: Savoyen Jérôme.208 pages, price: 23 euros.