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Métal Hurlant (2021) #4
Métal Hurlant N°4: L'homme est bien petit
Le mythique Métal Hurlant est de retour avec une nouvelle formule, alternant les numéros originaux avec les numéros vintage. 4 VOLUMES PARUS - HISTOIRES INDÉPENDANTES. Le meilleur de la SF, à retrouver en kiosque, en librairie et par abonnement www.metalhurlant.com. Chaque année, retrouvez quatre nouveaux numéros consacrés à la science-fiction : deux numéros dédiés à la création, avec des histoires et articles inédits, et deux numéros consacrés à la « première génération Métal ». La rédaction travaille sous la direction de Jerry Frissen et sous l'égide d'un ange tutélaire bien particulier : l'inimitable Jean-Pierre Dionnet, l'un des pères fondateurs de la revue.
- GenresScience Fiction
286 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 24, 2022
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About the author
Enki Bilal
243 books316 followersEnki Bilal (born Enes Bilal) is a French comic book creator and film director.
Bilal was born in Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, to a Czech mother, Ana, who came to Belgrade as child from Karlovy Vary, and a Bosnian Muslim father, Muhamed Hamo Bilal who had been Josip Broz Tito's tailor. When he was five years old, his father managed to take a trip and stay in Paris as a political émigré. Enki and the rest of the family followed him, four years later.
Enki Bilal has no sense of belonging to any ethnic group and religion, nor is he obsessed with soil and roots. He said in one interview: "I also feel Bosnian by my father's origin, a Serb by my place of birth and a Croat by my relationship with a certain friends, not to mention my other Czech half, who I am inherited from mother".
At age 14, he met René Goscinny and with his encouragement applied his talent to comics. He produced work for Goscinny's Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote in the 1970s, publishing his first story, Le Bol Maudit, in 1972.
In 1975, Bilal began working with script writer Pierre Christin on a series of dark and surreal tales, resulting in the body of work titled Légendes d'Aujourd'hui.
He is best known for the Nikopol trilogy (La Foire aux immortels, La Femme piège and Froid Équateur), which took more than a decade to complete. Bilal wrote the script and did the artwork. The final chapter, Froid Équateur, was chosen book of the year by the magazine Lire and is acknowledged by the inventor of chess boxing as the inspiration for the sport.
Quatre? (2007), the last book in the Hatzfeld tetralogy, deals with the breakup of Yugoslavia from a future viewpoint. The first installment came in 1998 in the shape of Le Sommeil du Monstre opening with the main character, Nike, remembering the war in a series of traumatic flashbacks.
In 2012, Bilal was featured in a solo exhibition at The Louvre. The exhibition, titled "The Ghosts of the Louvre", ran from 20 December 2012 to 18 March 2013. The exhibition was organized by Fabrice Douar, and featured a series of paintings of "Ghosts", done atop photographs that Bilal took of the Louvre's collection.
Bilal was born in Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, to a Czech mother, Ana, who came to Belgrade as child from Karlovy Vary, and a Bosnian Muslim father, Muhamed Hamo Bilal who had been Josip Broz Tito's tailor. When he was five years old, his father managed to take a trip and stay in Paris as a political émigré. Enki and the rest of the family followed him, four years later.
Enki Bilal has no sense of belonging to any ethnic group and religion, nor is he obsessed with soil and roots. He said in one interview: "I also feel Bosnian by my father's origin, a Serb by my place of birth and a Croat by my relationship with a certain friends, not to mention my other Czech half, who I am inherited from mother".
At age 14, he met René Goscinny and with his encouragement applied his talent to comics. He produced work for Goscinny's Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote in the 1970s, publishing his first story, Le Bol Maudit, in 1972.
In 1975, Bilal began working with script writer Pierre Christin on a series of dark and surreal tales, resulting in the body of work titled Légendes d'Aujourd'hui.
He is best known for the Nikopol trilogy (La Foire aux immortels, La Femme piège and Froid Équateur), which took more than a decade to complete. Bilal wrote the script and did the artwork. The final chapter, Froid Équateur, was chosen book of the year by the magazine Lire and is acknowledged by the inventor of chess boxing as the inspiration for the sport.
Quatre? (2007), the last book in the Hatzfeld tetralogy, deals with the breakup of Yugoslavia from a future viewpoint. The first installment came in 1998 in the shape of Le Sommeil du Monstre opening with the main character, Nike, remembering the war in a series of traumatic flashbacks.
In 2012, Bilal was featured in a solo exhibition at The Louvre. The exhibition, titled "The Ghosts of the Louvre", ran from 20 December 2012 to 18 March 2013. The exhibition was organized by Fabrice Douar, and featured a series of paintings of "Ghosts", done atop photographs that Bilal took of the Louvre's collection.
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December 20, 2022
Numéro 4 de la nouvelle formule déjà, et encore une fois, un tome que l'on savoure sur la longueur. Car on prend son temps à lire tout ça. Ça reste un joli pavé de plus de 280 pages, avec des interviews/articles intéressants sur les fondations/fondateurs du journal, mais aussi truffé de pages de BD de qualité. Numéro vieilleries. Ou plutôt nostalgie comme d'autres peuvent le nommer. Mais tout cela est bien sûr positif: quel plaisir de (re)découvrir toutes ces histoires, toutes ces pages aux graphismes bien différents les uns des autres. On découvre (enfin!) certains auteurs .. Bref, c'est vraiment une revue pour laquelle je souhaite le meilleur … un vrai grand plaisir de lecture.
January 9, 2023
Currently available on Kindle Unlimited, this fourth volume of the relaunch of Metal Hurlant is much like the second, a retrospective of important moments in the original run of the 1979s, and it contains a few absolute gems. My comments on volume two apply equally here.
November 12, 2023
Un numéro “Vintage” qui regroupe 25 courts récits et 4 articles (que je n’ai parcourue qu’en diagonale mais je note surtout deux entrevues avec Philippe Druillet et Jean-Michel Nicollet) sur le thème de “L’Home est bien petit”. Comme pour les numéros que j’ai commenté précédemment, même si certains des styles (extrêmement variés) des artistes n’étaient pas vraiment de mon goût, j’ai tout de même trouvé tous ces courts récits intéressants et qu’ils méritaient d’être lu. Un numéro exceptionnel.
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