Will - Lot 42

Will WILL TIF AND TONDU Sorti des abîmes (T.19), Dupuis 1972 Original plate no. 32, prepublished in Le Journal de Spirou n° 1759, December 30, 1971. Signed. India ink on paper 35.8 × 46 cm (14.09 × 18.11 in.) Superb panel in which our heroes fly over London in search of the monster that is terrorizing the capital. We're back to the motif of the invisible man, except that in this case the individual is a great ape with gigantic strength. All of Will's qualities are to be found in this plate: the set designer able to draw London from an unprecedented point of view - remember that there was no Internet or Google News at the time - the prop designer able to draw an airplane from all angles in a credible way, and then the "director" who gives this scene a plausible reality. Note Tillieux's nod to Jacobs: Limehouse Dock is where Blake and Mortimer were confronted by the Yellow Mark...