Paru en 2020, "Faux accords" croisait les histoires de plusieurs personnages situés à un tournant de leur existence. Pierre Jeanneau nous embarquait dans un récit choral servi par un dessin nerveux et un dispositif formel original, alliant décors fixes en représentation isométrique et procédés inspirés du théâtre et des jeux vidéos. Le second tome "Châteaux de sable" développe de nouvelles trouvailles graphiques et ajoute de nouveaux fils à la toile narrative.

Sur les routes sinueuses qui mènent à Syracuse, une voiture rouge fend l’air lugubre. Matteo, mycologue de profession, se rend dans la ville de son enfance pour y donner une conférence. Mais à partir de la rencontre avec un auto-stoppeur inquiétant et une sortie de route inopinée, plus rien ne va se passer normalement.

June, is a young and hypersensitive woman, full of love for nature and animals. One day, she takes in a strange creature in a really bad shape and moves it to the basement. Here starts a mysterious relationship between her and this strange being she called “Lenny”. The latter turns out to be kind of funny and sweet, but maybe not entirely harmless…

Roxane is a young Parisian whose Bohemian life seems stuck in an endless loop of idle afternoons and wine-soaked nights with her roommate. Strapped for cash and novelty, she starts selling her used underwear online. This new business soon impacts Roxane’s daily life and the people around her. The world she has just stepped into might be much more bizarre than what she expected.

Larry and Alice lead solitary lives in a small American ghost town. He works at an electronic store run by a drunk while she plays the organ in an empty church. They hang out but their relationship seems to go nowhere. Larry takes refuge in his childhood dreams and only seems to care about astronomy and space travel.