Disappearance
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The comic book screenwriter, author with Mézières of “Valérian et Laureline”, and collaborator of Bilal or Tardi, died this Thursday, October 3, at the age of 86.
“Jean-Claude Mézières and Jean Giraud knew what they wanted to do. At the age of 13 or 14, they decided to become comic book artists. I had the ambition to pursue a creative profession but I didn’t yet know which one. I loved playing the piano but I felt that I was not at the level to make it my career. I loved writing, but I never dared to dream of making a living from writing. I had the idea of creating something, but this idea remained more or less conscious.” Message of hope for all the latecomers, all the lost people who don’t really know where they are going, or how. Pierre Christin, who over the decades came to play the iconic comic book writer, had no idea where he was going. To the point that at the age when others are having their adolescent crisis, this son of a hairdresser and a manicurist was wondering about the priesthood…
Pierre Christin died this Wednesday, at the age of 86. Two years after Jean-Claude Mézières, the discreet cowboy with whom he helped shape modern science fiction in the immense saga Valerian and Laureline. Two boys from Saint-Mandé who found themselves thousands of kilometers from home, in Utah. Unsure which artistic path to choose, Christin continued her studies at Sciences-Po and the Sorbonne.