Jerry Cornelius

Jerry Cornelius is the chameleon-like anti-hero of several SF- pop-art - novels by British SF and fantasy author Michael Moorcock.

The androgynous dandy Cornelius can travel through countless parallel worlds of the " multiverse " where he witnessed some bizarre adventure.

The first Jerry Cornelius novel, The Final Programme (1968 ) was filmed in 1973 with Jon Finch in the leading role. Moorcock encouraged other authors ( such as his colleagues Norman Spinrad ), the figure free to use. Among other things, he published the free availability of the figure for other writers in the prestigious SF magazine New Worlds. In 1971, an anthology ("The Nature of the Catastrophe " ) with Jerry Cornelius stories by various authors. The French artist Moebius used the character in his experimental SF Comic Hermetic Garage of Jerry Cornelius ( OT Le garage Hermétique, 1979), the second band around Major Grubert. Also, the comic book writer Bryan Talbot used the figure of Jerry Cornelius and took him to the template for the title character of his 1987 comic series published The Adventures of Luther Arkwright.

In German The Jerry Cornelius chronicles following novels are published under the name: