BIBLIOGRAPHY
A complete list of books released to date.
Rare Items
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Published in 1986, this album regroups 3 parts: La Nuit de L'Etoile, The Night of the Star, my first graphic novel with Moebius, first seen in Metal-Hurlant in '83; La Mission de Yogan, Yogan's Mission, a short story like a folktale, and an illustrated account about Tahiti, produced during our Polynesian days.
This book was only distributed for a short time because the AEDENA publishing house closed down the very year it started. So it is difficult to find...but not impossible.
Collectors might even care to take a
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Megadorma is a box-set folio in 17 x 23 cm format, published as a limited print, numbered and signed.
It includes a dozen illustrations done in "direct color," showing a calendar
of imaginary holidays and celebrations from planet Megadorma.
You can check out a few samples of it in
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Curio Items
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Very few know about it, but Zone 7 Boulevard , my very first book, for Neptune
Publishers whose specialty is erotic comics, was a particularly hot one!
Released in 1981, this was produced according to the golden rule of this
company: no more than 2 pages in a row without a raunchy scene.
As you can imagine, it's not necesarily a good sampling of my work, but I had to have
its place in this bibliography.
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La ferme des animaux, Animal Farm, surprised many a reader when it came out, understandably so. It
was a commission from a publisher who wanted to adapt Orwell's masterpiece to
a graphic novel for the eastern countries. We accepted the job inasmuch as
it was a chance to work in-studio with a whole team.
Jean Giraud produced a quick storyboard based on the animated video the
publisher gave us, and an artist layed out the pencil drafts in keeping with
the animation's style. I was dealing with inking in, a lettering person did
the "bubbles" and a coloring person completed the assembly line. The book
was done in less than 2 months.
What we didn't know was that the publisher also intended to release the book
in France, with the names Giraud and Bati in big on the cover.
Obviously, when opening the book, one could quickly see it looked neither like L'Incal,
nor like Cristal Majeur.
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The Great Classics
The ALTOR Series
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Les immortels de Shinkaras,The Immortals of Shinkara, begins a few years later. Altor has grown up and has decided to travel and study to be in service to the Confederation. His first mission takes him to a world where vegetation is predominant, which is normal for an elf.
On this book, Jean Giraud signs Moebius, on the publisher's advice, who
deemed accurately that the adventures of Altor are more in the vein of
"L'Incal" than that of "Blueberry." This time, my scriptwriter let me take
the reins on the story, so to speak, stepping in every now and again to bring
new ideas - which always enriched the tale. His counsel on the graphics were
also of great value.
Also available in
Portugues
 Edicoes Asa
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Les Seigneurs-Force,
The Force-Lords, is the last book in the series as
well as the first i completed alone. It had been a while that I had wanted
to try that out, and I had in mind some strong characters that could become
extraordinary heros.
I greatly enjoyed directing these Force-Lords, princes of invisible worlds, masters of the Force-Energy, keepers of the keys to a world one suspects without ever really fully knowing.
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SYLFELINE Series
Les 5 mondes de Sylfeline, The 5 worlds of Sylfeline, was my first shot at script-writing for another
artist, Bruno Bellamy. We had wanted to work together, and I was trying to
create a story by letting myself be inspired by his graphic world, somewhere
between pin-ups and teddy-bears. It's an adventure without "bad guys" - not
the simplest of things to pull off - where the story is driven by the unknown
to discover, rather than by the evil to overcome.
There are also several layers and levels of possible reading, very different
one to the other. You can read in it a simple adventure with a nice heroine,
or a reflection on how truth can seem relative according to one another's
education and culture, and even an approach to the impenetrable ways of
divine intentions.
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Sylfeline was really a one-shot attempt, without any
planned sequels. But now, the publisher is requesting a second volume. The
challenge was a tough one; I didn't want Sylfeline to fall into a classic
story-structure, but a new quest had to be found. It's actually her peculiar
status somewhere between gods and humans that makes her unique. This time,
she'll need all The Powers of Tchoubou,
Les pouvoirs de Tchoubou, to fulfill
the divine mission she was tasked with.
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The New Wave
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Les écoles d'Arsamia, The Schools of Arsamia, the first of two volumes of Primordial Chronicles.
The book was just released, and I devoted a whole page to it - it's new and deserving after all.
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The pictures included in this page are all © Bati, Giraud, Bellamy, Dargaud & Soleil, and reproduced here with kind authorization of Marc Bati. They're here for the pleasure of your eyes. Please be kind enough not to take them for a commercial purpose nor misappropriate them in any way.
USA :Comcat Comics
Germany :Alpha Comics Verlag 
Nederland :Arboris
Danemark :Bogfabrikken
Italy :Comic Art