This is from the book Les cybers ne sont pas des hommes (“Cybers are not men”), in which François Landon wrote the script. The book follows a format in which text appears on one page, then a wordless splash page on the next.

Me, I found the 1st/3rd-person narrative rather surreal, almost cynical in tone, in which a couple survivors of a plane crash must contend with a mad scientist’s collection of robots… or something like that. Very 50’s American sci-fi movie-style, it seemed to me.

The opening text begins: (thanks to Google-Translate)

So an interesting thought-experiment I guess, but I feel like Chaland pulled this kind of thing off far more effectively with his own Freddy Lombard, which was a pretty lively pastiche / parody series.

If any native French-speaker knows this one, I’d be interested in your views. Certainly the art is neat to look at for any LC-fancier!

Oh, and if you’re not familiar with Chaland:
https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/chaland.htm

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    4 months ago

    Clean and classic style, beautiful!