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Subtitled Library for Radioactive Afterlife, Susanne Kriemann's books P(ech) B(lende) (2016) and Ge(ssenwiese) K(anigsberg) (2020) are dedicated to the invisibility and after-effects of radioactivity. Produced by several authors, these books-as-library bring together multiple textual genres and forms of representation to explore the "radioactive afterlife", which not only indicates the horizon of survival after a nuclear catastrophe, but also the survival of images, given the impossibility of representing an invisible, immeasurable phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with a reading of HOLZ, a woodcut magazine by Olivier Deprez and Roby Comblain, who is also in charge of the exhibition of this work which is meant to be seen as much as to be read. It analyzes the place of this both hybrid and medium-specific project in the career of the artiste, highlighting the many correspondences with Deprez's commitment to engraving as a visual technique but also as a storytelling technique. The article also examines the singularities of the treatment of the book as object in light of the contemporary crisis of the book, in literature as well as in comics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]