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Certainly more brutal and direct than Calvin and Hobbes' take on the same metaphor, I believe this is a very, very clever comment on last week's tragic events. To be used in debating the free speech / religion issue with teenagers (and grown ups). Art and story by Julien Neel.

A very moving weekend, as my "Siegfried" was shown in a great live performance by the Lyon National Orchestra. Wagner's music was conducted by Andris Poga from an arrangement by Hank de Vlieger. Image editing by Vincent Goujon.

In "le Ch��teau des ��toiles" ("Castle in the Stars"), the space race begins 100 years early!

The year is 1868. Aeronaut Claire Dulac disappears in a daring high-altitude ballon flight. A year later her husband, engineer Archibald Dulac, and her son S��raphin receive an anonymous letter : someone has recovered Claire's flight log, and promises stunning revelations��� The pair travel to Bavaria where they discover that a secret space program has started in king Ludwig's own castle. His goal: to send men into space before 1870!More pictures and updates (in french) on facebook.

In "le Château des étoiles" ("Castle in the Stars"), the space race begins 100 years early!

The year is 1868. Aeronaut Claire Dulac disappears in a daring high-altitude ballon flight. A year later her husband, engineer Archibald Dulac, and her son Séraphin receive an anonymous letter : someone has recovered Claire's flight log, and promises stunning revelations… The pair travel to Bavaria where they discover that a secret space program has started in king Ludwig's own castle. His goal: to send men into space before 1870!More pictures and updates (in french) on facebook.

The third episode (and season finale) of "Castle in the Stars" (Le Château des étoiles") comes out in France on july 9th!

The new installment in the Castle in the Stars ("le Château des étoiles") series hits the stores today! (French edition)

This is the gazette edition, a 3-part series in a very large format (30x40 cm). The next issue comes out in june !

A short step-by step of the cover to my next book, "le Château des étoiles"... The technique is watercolor on Crescent watercolor board (hot pressed).

My next book will be published in France as a 3-part newspaper series (24 pages - 30x40 cm). It's a thrill seeing the printed pages at this size, so close to the original art format. Newspaper #1 comes out in bookstores on May 14th.

Spacesuit from the Golden Age of the Ether (1870-1875), custom made in France for the king of Bavaria's pioneering ethercraft “Schwanstern”. See "Le Château des étoiles" ("Castle in the Stars") for an accurate account of the era's remarkable discoveries in outer space.












(Design by Alex Alice, made  in wood, brass and leather by Ateliers Vertugadins)