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Philippe Druillet: "After Flaubert and Dante, only the Bible makes me go back"

2021-03-21T12:25:30.605Z


INTERVIEW - In this year of commemoration of the two giants of literature, the artist looks back on his work, the first to link great classics and comics.


After having polluted the Earth, then the Moon - 95 bags of excrement and other waste left by the Apollo missions - man begins to pollute Mars. "

Entrenched in his thebaid on the banks of the Seine, an ideally fantastic Moorish villa, unearthed eight years ago in Herblay (Val-d'Oise), Philippe Druillet, master of science fiction and therefore somewhat visionary, is enraged.

It's a good sign.

Because, in the past, his anger has resulted in his best creations.

At 76, here he is tackling

Dante Alighieri's

Hell

.

As part of the 700th anniversary of the poet's death, he embarks on a graphic variation of this most fascinating part of the

Divine Comedy

.

“I need that kind of challenge to create.

The higher the wall, the more I want to climb it, ”

says this irreducible rebel, still dressed in black and his fingers covered with rings with monster heads, his creations.

Read also:

The confined apocalypses of Philippe Druillet and François Avril

We want as proof his

Salammbô

, historical comic book masterpiece (1980-1986), first adaptation of a classic

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Source: lefigaro

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