Year: 1995
Publisher: Dargaud
ISBN: 2205044435
Content: 80 full colour pages
Year: 1998
Publisher: Dargaud
ISBN: 2205047515
Content: 80 full colour pages
Dargaud, French publisher of comics and comic related items honoured his long-term author of the immensely popular Valérian (et Laureline) scifi series with two volumes of covers, sketches and other related stuff by Jean-Claude Mézières.
His works are in fact so popular, that his visual creations served as blueprint for some movies as well, most notably Luc Besson´s The Fifth Element, starring the ever scifi-openminded Bruce Willis. And although many other artists and comic creators have before and since envisioned cityscapes with flying cars and trains, I think none of them set this imagery so profoundly in scene as Mézières. He was by the way mainly responsible for his hometown Lille winning the European Capital of Culture title by creating the famous star-way "Chemin des Ètoilers" with seven science fiction pillars on main street... :)
Both books are as of this writing still available from Amazon France for about 20 Euros.
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