Valerian & Laureline Creator Pierre Christin Dies

French newspaper Le Monde reported that author Pierre Christin (Valerian & Laureline) died on October 3 in Paris. He was 86.

Christin was born at Saint-Mandé on July 27, 1938. His passions had been piano jazz and literature. He worked as a journalist, novelist, and professor. Christin created would would change into the college of journalism at Bordeaux University. He additionally traveled to the U.S. as a visiting lecturer in 1965, and grew to change into a teacher of French as a lot as the moment literature at Salt Lake Metropolis University in Utah.

Christin debuted the science fiction graphic new series Valerian & Laureline in Pilote magazine in 1967 with artist Jean-Claude Mézières (The Fifth Component impart assemble). The series ended in 2010. The series inspired the 2007 French/Japanese anime coproduction Time Jam: Valerian & Laureline (pictured honest). Anime studio Satelight coproduced the tv series with French animation studio Dargaud-Marina and distributor EuropaCorp. All 40 episodes are streaming in English on Crunchyroll. Sentai Filmworks released the series on home video. The graphic novels additionally inspired the Valerian and the Metropolis of a Thousand Planets movie in 2017.

Thanks to Delphine Maurette from ANN’s French team for assistance with this text.

Sources: Le Monde, ICv2 (Milton Griepp)