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| 3 | Philippe Druillet (born 28 June 1944), is a graphic artist of the French-Belgian school of comics. |
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| 5 | An amateur illustrator since childhood, he grows up an avid cinephile and discovers the works of Creator/HPLovecraft as a teenager. Working as a photographer, he meets Jean Boullet who initiates him to artistic drawing, painting, and the aesthetics of insanity. |
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| 7 | In 1966, his first album, "The Mystery of the Abyss", is published. It introduces what will become his recurring hero, the space mercenary Lone Sloane. In 1969, he meets [[Creator/{{Moebius}} Jean Giraud]] and starts publishing his works in the illustrated weekly ''Pilote''. His style becomes increasingly flamboyant and visually challenging; doing away with panels altogether, he fills the whole page with [[SceneryPorn highly detailed and color-saturated drawings]]. |
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| 9 | In 1974, feeling constrained by the editorial guidelines at ''Pilote'', he leaves the magazine and, along with Giraud and Jean-Pierre Dionnet, he co-founds the alternative magazine ''Métal Hurlant'' (published in the US under the title ''Magazine/HeavyMetal'') and the publishing house Les Humanoides Associés. |
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| 11 | His recurring main character is Lone Sloane, a [[TheDrifter drifter]] AntiHero who wanders throughout space in a GrimDark far future full of decadent civilizations and {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. As a catharsis for his wife's struggle with--and eventual death from--cancer, Druillet writes the one-shot ''Night'' in 1975. This album is characterized, even more than the rest of his oeuvre, by a tone of darkness, despair and nihilistic pessimism. |
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