His love of comics and the cinema introduced him to music.
The silence has been broken: "Chaplin," a new musical about the life of the comic performer and cinema pioneer Charlie Chaplin, has found a Broadway home.
Over the past 17 years, this has turned out to include essays and reviews on music, literature, art, theater, poetry, dance, erotica, comics, transcultural migration, expatriate life and cinema.
Now published in English by Toronto's House of Anansi Press, Jourdain's gorgeous mise en images of the play, which appeared in Britain at the Barbican earlier this year, includes every word of dialogue spread over 176 pages of comic-book panels and cinema-inspired paintings.
There is a long tradition of comedic theater and cinema, and even comic monologues and impersonations.
Beginning in the 1980s, second- and third-generation North Africans were often referred to as les beurs, and beur cinema, beur comics, and beur radio, among other forms of expression, have found a large audience.
They often appear among the many characters and creatures featured in Japanese cinema, animation, comics, and video games.
The opposite case is photography and cinema.
In the early 20th century, film was influenced by comics, and woodcut novels by the likes of Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward (themselves partially influenced by German Expressionist cinema, and perhaps vice versa) were precursors of the graphic novel.
