THE SUICIDE & REINCARNATION OF AN EXTREMELY SMALL MAN (1972)

'A rare mini-comic by Ronald Searle. It's the forty-first volume of a series of limited editions called Les Poquettes volantes. (I've never seen any other volume.) In name, size (13,5 x 10,2 cm) and style of this booklet reminds me of L'Association's (much later) Patte de mouche series.'             From THIS Flickr set by Arthur van Kruining

I asked Ronald if this series of drawings sprang from an animated project.  He told me;


'the little booklet: Suicide,etc. was Vol: 41 in a continuing series called 'Les Poquettes Volantes' from a slightly surrealistic publisher in Belgium - a friend - who gave every writer or artist a totally free hand and each poquette was limited to 1000 copies.  It was fun to do. It wasn't more than that. Not a storyboard idea, or anything else.'


Apparently Searle did another booklet in this series LES VOLANTES DU RAVISSEUR (#42) but I haven't been able to locate it yet.