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.
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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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