Pierre Christin

Avaruusagentit Valerian ja Laureline viettävät nykyään tavallista koululaiselämää Ranskassa. Avaruudessa tapahtuu kuitenkin edelleen: delfit ovat galaksin suosituimpia tarinankertojia, mutta nyt rotua uhkaa sukupuutto, sillä aine, jota he käyttävät ravinnokseen ja joka ruokkii heidän luomiskykyään, on loppumassa. Pystyvätkö lukioikäiset sankarimme pelastamaan delfit?Käsikirjoittaja Pierre Christin palaa luomansa klassikkosarjan pariin ja jatkaa Valerianin sekä Laurelinen tarinaa yhdessä uuden kuvittajan, Virginie Augustinin kanssa.

The Delphs are an artificial species who depend entirely on an extremely rare substance, that not only allows them to live and reproduce, but also fuels their creative talents - for the Delphs are the most sought-after storytellers in the galaxy. They call upon Galaxity to find a new source of it, as their own is exhausted. The problem is, the only available deposit is on 21st century Earth, and the agents on station... are still going to high school!

I Tidsöppnaren, det sista ordinarie Linda och Valentin-albumet från 2010, återvände våra vänner till jorden och Galaxity, som de hjälpt till att rädda från det stora intet. Men det återfunna Galaxity visar sig vara en människofientlig teknokrati, en plats där de två agenterna genast vantrivs. Med hjälp av sin tidigare motståndare Xombul gör de i stället ett rumtidssprång till en epok som de har besökt flera gånger tidigare: vår egen. Samtidigt blir Linda och Valentin barn på nytt, och alla deras minnen och tidigare erfarenheter raderas. Berättelsen är därför inte slut, utan i stället står de pånyttfödda, redo att börja utforska världen och universum på nytt. Det är här på jorden i vår egen tid som det nya äventyret börjar, några år efter att vi senast mötte barnen Linda och Valentin och deras beskyddare farbror Albert. Vid 83 års ålder har Pierre Christin som tillsammans med Jean-Claude Mézières 1967 skapade Linda och Valentin skrivit en ny berättelse om de båda rumtidsagenterna, som ansluter till de tidigare äventyren. Eftersom vännen och kollegan Mézières tog farväl av jordelivet i januari 2022, har Christin denna gång allierat sig med Virginie Augustin, den första kvinnliga tecknare som gett sig ut i rumtidens kringelkrokar.

George Orwell’s most celebrated work, 1984, and the prescient vision it contains of a society governed by Big Brother, predates the constant monitoring of people and data we are familiar with today by over 70 years. But his life was every bit as fascinating and forward-looking as his books. Orwell studied at Eton, joined the police in Burma, fought in the Spanish Civil War, fiercely opposed Stalinism, and lived in London’s slums while working as a journalist. With illustrations by a team of artists including Juanjo Guarnido, Enki Bilal, Manu Larcenet, Blutch and André Juillard, Pierre Christin and Sébastien Verdier’s Orwell offers readers an intimate yet definitive portrait of our greatest political writer. “Christin, Verdier, et al. have pulled off a rare feat. They have taken one of the most straightforward writers in the English language and made his canon and life story more accessible.” – The Orwell Society

Legends of Today brings together the first three volumes that Enki Bilal has created in collaboration with the scriptwriter Pierre Christin: The Cruise of Forgotten (1975), The Stone Vessel (1976) and The City That Did Not Exist (1977). Antagonised by an enigmatic character with supernatural powers, which serves as a theme for the trilogy, the three stories delve into the lives of various traditional communities (a village of the Landes, a Breton fishing port, a small working-class town in the North) as they fight against the police, the army, and all those in power, whose action, at the time, was very controversial. An endearing panorama of the generous utopias of the time, nourished by modern fantasy and a certain humor that still preserves freshness today.

Vypusknik Itona, pisatel i ekstsentrik. Zhurnalist i otshelnik, opolchenets i buntovschik. Sozdatel novojaza i velichajshij providets. Pessimist v politike, no optimist po zhizni. Mozhno lish gadat, kakimi stali by ego raboty, ne nazovis on odnazhdy Dzhordzhem Oruellom. V forme graficheskogo romana Per Kristen i Sebastjan Verde issledujut politicheskie vzgljady i literaturnye pristrastija odnogo iz samykh jarkikh pisatelej proshlogo veka, avtora vsemirno izvestnykh knig "1984" i "Skotnyj dvor".Perevodchik: Borovikova Ljudmila IvanovnaKhudozhnik: Verde Sebastjan

Englænderen George Orwell (1903-1950) er en af det tyvende århundredes mest skelsættende forfattere. Hans tidlige forfatterskab kredsede om undertrykkelse af racerne og udstødelse af de lavere sociale klasser, men med hans mest kendte værker, dyrefablen “Kammerat Napoleon” (1945) og “1984” (1949), slog Orwell også ind på en vej, der rettede en stærk kritik mod periodens totalitære styrer.Men Orwell var mere end forfatter; Pierre Christin og Sébastien Verdier fortæller her den fascinerende historie om journalisten, excentrikeren, socialisten, romantikeren og den visionære eneboer.Med bidrag af André Juillard, Olivier Balez, Manu Larcenet, Blutch, Juanjo Guarnido og Enki Bilal.

Several new chapters of Valerian and Laureline's adventures - but are they flashbacks, or ... ? After the events of The Time Opener, Valerian and Laureline reverted to childhood, and are now living with Mr Albert on 21st century Earth. But in a universe where time travel is a reality, words like 'after' or even 'now' can be somewhat ... hazy, and elsewhere, in other times, our young but nonetheless adult agents are still working tirelessly to maintain a galactic peace threatened as always by greed and the thirst for power.

Jean-Claude Mézières och Pierre Christin tar oss ännu en gång med på en resa genom Linda och Valentins universum och berättar några hittills okända episoder från deras äventyr. Liksom i det föregående albumet, Minnen från framtiden, får vi återse en del välbekanta platser och figurer i korta berättelser som bjuder på både nostalgi och humor och denna gång också ett stänk vemod. Antagligen är detta upphovsmännens farväl till Linda och Valentin, men skulleså vara lämnar de ändå öppet för en fortsättning i någon möjlig framtid.

Mezieres and Christin have done something that almost no one had done before: after 43 years at the helm, they decided of their own accord to conclude the adventures of their heroes. The three titles in this volume (At the Edge of the Great Void, The Order of the Stones and The Time Opener) bring things full circle and establish the definitive end of the story.

With volumes 16 to 18 collected here, we find Valerian and Laureline suddenly rich beyond their wildest dreams, and this new situation brings the differences in their personalities in stark contrast: where Laureline remains true to herself and her love of life, Valerian finds himself idle and disoriented. Fortunately, when the former is kidnapped in Hostages of Ultralum, the son of Galaxity earns back his status as a hero and saviour. In the direct sequel, Orphan of the Stars, the united couple faces adversity and the hardships of parenthood (even temporary) together. Finally, In Uncertain Times brings them back on the trail of the vanished future Earth, paving the way for the last cycle and the saga's conclusion. With, as always, essays by Stan Barets, here on the alien cast of the series and the authors' various creations for the year 2000.

In this volume of the Collection you will find books 13 to 15, and our heroes' life has been irretrievably changed with the disappearance of future Earth and Galaxity. Lacking work, they become freelance spies in the 80s in On the Frontiers. Lacking money, they're reluctant arms dealers in The Living Weapons. Lacking options, they turn investigators slash bait on corrupt Rubanis in The Circles of Power.

Fourth volume of the collection: return to Earth, and some great upheavals in the characters' lives, are on the menu for the best titles of the series. This volume contains books 9 to 12 ? two unmissable two-parters that represent a turning point in the story of our agents, and which are widely considered by critics and readers alike to be the pinnacle of the series. Characterised by a return to 20th century Earth, these two stories are suffused with incredible melancholy and poetic charm, and force Valerian, the action man, to face his limitations. As the real date neared 1986, final year of our world according to the authors, Pierre Christin reconciled fiction and reality with consummate skill and daring, sweeping aside the status quo and sending his heroes down a completely new path. This book is introduced by several articles of the recently departed Stan Barets.

Even though Valerian and Laureline's adventures have come to an end, there are still many chapters that haven't been told yet. Simple episodes, post-scriptums to their main stories, moments of their lives seen through the eyes of their friends, their allies, or even their enemies. Here's a collection of vignettes that will cast a new light - sometimes funny, sometimes touching - on the saga of our heroes.