Jean-Claude Mézières

Jean -Claude Mézières ( born September 23, 1938 in Paris) is a French artist and cartoonist. Popular Mézières was his comic series Valerian & Veronique, for which he was honored with the 1984 Comic Price Grand Prix de la Ville d' Angoulême (alpha - type ).

Biography

During the Second World War, he first met on the neighbor boy and his future partner Pierre Christin in an air raid shelter. Mézières visited in 1953, the Institute des Arts Appliqués, where he met Jean Giraud. Mézières and Giraud were close friends until his death. During his studies, he was responsible for various French comic magazines, including Coeur Vaillant and Spirou. After his service in the French military, he became a professional artist and participated in contract work, but in 1965 he moved to the U.S., at a time to work there in Montana and Arizona long as a cowboy. Unable zusammenzubekommen on its own the money for the journey back to France, Mézières got in touch with his old friend Christin, who taught at that time in Utah. The first collaboration of the duo Mézières / Christian, Le Rhum du Punch, 1966 was published in Pilote magazine and took care of the ticket home.

The following year Mézières and Christin created together the science fiction series Valerian & Veronique also for Pilote. More than 20 episodes have been previously published by this successful ongoing story.

For the film The Fifth Element, he developed together with Jean Giraud design.