S.K. Collection - Lot 10

S.K. Collection JACQUES TARDI Les Humanoïdes Associés Original plate no. 3 from the story Lune de miel published in Métal Hurlant n° 6, March 1976. Signed. India ink, colored inks and gouache on paper 31 × 39.5 cm (12.2 × 15.55 in.) Tardi's direct-color plates are rare. In 1976, Tardi was still finding his feet. On the strength of Adieu Brindavoine (1974), he found a "safe house" with Casterman, who recruited him for a new series, which, despite its parodic counterpoints, was in some ways a classic comic strip: Adèle Blanc-Sec. A series that came out precisely the year Tardi produced these pages for Métal Hurlant, in 1976. But Tardi was an experimenter: he'd tried his hand at scratch cards with Le Démon des glaces (1974). Soon, he'll be doing a sulfurous peplum with Polonius (1977) and a French crime thriller with Griffu (1978). What remained for him was to try his hand at SF. This is the case in this short story, as offbeat as it is saucy. Only Jean-Pierre Dionnet's "La Machine à rêver" could publish a story like this...