Fresque "Chez Lucien" de Frank Margerin

The mural you are looking at depicts a quintessential scene from the comic book world of Frank Margerin. It captures his iconic character, Lucien, a rocker with a signature greased-back pompadour and black leather jacket, surrounded by his friends in a neighborhood bistro called Chez Lucien. Margerin, a longtime resident of Malakoff, drew inspiration for these characters from the groups of local teenagers he observed here during the nineteen sixties. By placing this scene on the wall near the Pablo Neruda Mediatheque, the city honors its status as the literal home turf for one of French comic history's most recognizable figures.