The cartoonist Brecht Evens is one of the great innovators of contemporary comics. In his contrasting, brightly coloured watercolours, the Belgian artist paints a portrait of his adopted city, Paris, and the mood of individuals in search of answers that travel through the nights of big cities. Debauchery and fall, loneliness and emptiness, fantasies and inner demons are the subjects to which Evens devotes itself while contextualizing the constantly awake cities or imaginary worlds. Through their luminous and vivid panels to the free narrative that evolves by associations, his books create a cinematographic enchantment. In the background of a joyful and exuberant celebration, there is melancholy and alienation, the dark side of individualised society. The Cartoonmuseum Basel presents for the first time in Switzerland a complete individual exhibition of this exceptional author and artist. At the Christoph Merian editions there is also a collection of black comedy strips from the imaginary and nightmarish "Idulfania".