Showing posts with label paul gillon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paul gillon. Show all posts

Thursday, 1 November 2018

Lost In Time



We've had a request, and to use an old gag, it's not "Will you stop banging on about Bronze Age comics for god's sake."
Nope, Nefarious Neil Hansen, old pal of this blog and fellow FOOBA would like to see more Paul Gillon.
Gillon was a French artist who is probably best known in the English speaking comics world for The Survivor, a post apocalypse erotic thriller that made the most of his marvellously clinical art style.
Neil thought Gillon did some stuff for Vampirella Eerie. Well, not sure about Vampi, but he certainly had some stuff in Eerie, or I should say had some stuff reprinted.
Spaceforce: Spacewrecked is an English translation of Lost In Time, a series that Gillon did with Barbarella's Jean-Claude Forrest, and although the translation seems a bit lacking, rushing through the story, you can't argue with the art.
As I say, there's a real oddness & distance to Gillon's work that I can't resist, like Stan Drake suddenly being overwhelmed with a fatal bout of ennui.
Unfortunately, Eerie only published four short instalments of this epic space opera, but NBM did an English translation of at least the first chapter. Here's the first part of Warren's version.