“Banana Split”, a postapocalyptic and humorous fiction signed Krel – Rts.ch

Kevin Crelerot, better known under his pseudonym Krel, has bathed in comics since childhood. Consequently, While some grow up with the adventures of Tintin de Hergé. For example, Krel is passionate about comics thanks to the albums “Metal Hurlant” by Moebius which give him taste for science fiction. In addition, These references are found in the line of the drawings of the comicianist. In addition, as in the themes he approaches in his books.

In his first comic book. Furthermore, “The Fourmis Revolution”, the Vaud artist evoked the alienation of work and a “banana split”, postapocalyptic humorous fiction reflection on our contemporary society. Therefore, With “Banana Split”. Nevertheless, for which he obtained the Stock Exchange for the creation of the City of Lausanne in 2023 and benefited from a thematic exhibition during the BDFIL 2024 festival, Krel questions the issues of truth, belief and purity in a universe which is characterized by its relationship to brutality, absurd and violence.

A quest for a better world – "banana split", postapocalyptic humorous fiction

“Banana Split” is a polyphonic story that takes place in a devastated. For example, suffocating universe, populated by looters and false prophets. In this destroyed world. child’s body, rachitic, insecure, in the bear pajamas, is a little being who wants to still believe in humanity, in beauty and non-violence. “He is really surrounded by quite the opposite and he has a lot of trouble surviving and accepting it. It is too violent for him. he does not have his shoulders for”, explains Krel in the “banana split”, postapocalyptic humorous fiction show Vertigo on June 18.

Unlike the child’s philtus. Dick Raptor, an animated sock that looks like a babibouchet, is all Philthus does not take advantage of being: filth, vulgar, cynical, biting and, above all, she knows how to get out of all dangers. By telling in turn their jack skewer adventures. a sort of Troubadour of the Apocalypse, these two characters so different will deliver their singular versions of their quest for a better and without suffering world.

A story on the story

With his previous project. Krel had delivered a very symbolic, even metaphorical silent philosophical tale. With “Banana Split”, he wanted to “tell a story”. With this work. the Badenist “banana split”, postapocalyptic humorous fiction delivers a story about the capacity of humans to stage the word, to articulate the stakes of truths and points of view: “My idea was to treat that. What is, a story? How to explain the notion of point of view, for example? Probably that even if we are sincere or that we are lying, it will always be different. So ultimately, reality and fiction are always a bit interspersed”.

With colors that contrast with the devastated universe in which history takes place. “Banana Split” is also a way for the author to approach the question of violence that there is “everywhere and all the time”. Krel specifies: “I believe that we are all able to delay from time to time. it is a subject that speaks to me. Because in this story. it is a bit of broken arms, characters a little screwed up, who do what they have to “banana split”, postapocalyptic humorous fiction do. And this totally destroyed world that surrounds them allows them to do it without there being any consequences”.

Interview by Pierre Philippe CADERT

Web adaptation: Lara Donnet

Krel, “Banana Split”, helix unfortunately publisher, March 2025.