Line #28 Creator/EnkiBilal


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3	Enes Bilalović - pen name Enki Bilal (born October 7, 1951) is a French-Yugoslavian comics writer and artist, best known for "The Carnival of Immortals", initially intended as a stand-alone album, but whose success would result in two sequels, "The Woman Trap" in 1986 and "Equator Cold" in 1993. The three albums form the Nikopol Trilogy.
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5	On his own, he also wrote and drew ''The Monster's Tetralogy'', the first book of which somehow anticipated 9/11 in 1998... which is the publication date. Keep in mind Enki Bilal often takes three years to finish one single album.
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7	While continuing to work primarily as a graphic artist and illustrator, Bilal has directed three movies, "Bunker Palace Hotel" in 1989 (a parable on the collapse of dictatorships), "Tykho Moon" in 1997, and ''Film/{{Immortal}}'' (based on the aforementioned "The Carnival of Immortals" and "The Woman Trap") in 2004.
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9	As a bit of trivia, it's been theorised that [[TheRival Viral]] from ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' was named after him - "Bilal" and "Viral" would be pronounced the same in Japanese, Viral pilots a mecha called the Enki, and his {{Leitmotif}} is called "Nikopol".
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11	Also, good luck finding somebody in his stories with long hair, most of his characters are either bald or with [[LeadYouCanRelateTo short]] [[BoyishShortHair hair]].
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13	!!Bilal's works contain examples of the following tropes:
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15	* AbstractScale: ''Equator Cold'' has a boxing match which is graded on a ten-point scale for elements such as footwork and violence. During the match the violence gets so high that the ''[[BrokeTheRatingScale scale-exceeding scale]]'' is applied! The healthiness of people is also graded on a ten-point scale, with a full ten representing some kind of abstract perfection of both mind and body and a harmonious connection between the two.
16	* BittersweetEnding
17	* BloodSport: A homicidal version of ice hockey in "The Carnival of Immortals".
18	* BodySnatcher: Horus in the "The Carnival of Immortals"... even a case of {{BodySurf}} until he finds Nikopol as a suitable host (which means one who can bear his possession without [[YourHeadAsplode his brains exploded]] after a few hours). Happens again in the sequel.
19	* CrapsackWorld
20	* {{Cyberpunk}} Most of his settings. Most obviously ''The Monster's Tetralogy''
21	* {{Defictionalization}}: In "Equator Cold", Bilal invented a sport called Chess Boxing. It now [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing exists]] in RealLife.
22	* DirtyCommies: "The Hunting Party" is about an informal get-together of high-ranking officials from [[UsefulNotes/WarsawPact various Soviet satellites]], and their bitter realization that the political system they have worked for all their lives is rotten to the core.
23	* FanDisservice: There's plenty of nudity, but very little of it is meant to be arousing.
24	* HumanPopsicle: Alcide Nikopol, the main character of "The Carnival of Immortals" and "Equator Cold", was an astronaut who spent 30 years in cryogenic sleep and comes back to Earth as a FishOutOfTemporalWater.
25	* PhysicalGod: "The Carnival of Immortals" depicts the gods of the Egyptian pantheon, and Horus in particular, as physical beings.
26	* ScheduleSlip: Averted. He takes his time to do it.
27	* UsedFuture: Bilal's more futuristic stories take place in a dilapidated setting.
28	* WellIntentionedExtremist: The characters of "The Black Order Brigade".
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