Metal Hurlant

Utopia has been chased by sentient beings since the beginning of time. But what is it? Where is it? When? How? This installment of Humanoids’ celebrated genre anthology explores “heaven on earth” (and beyond), and the systems that have made it impossible, illusory, or brief, warping it into its darker dystopian mirror… Inside this 272-page tome: Interviews with filmmaker, documentarian, and “cult” expert Jodi Wille ( The Source Family, Welcome Space Brothers ), and utopian sci-fi master Kim Stanley Robinson ( The Mars Trilogy, Ministry for the Future ); a brief glimpse of French legend Tardi, and the complete Polonius , his rare, depraved 44-page work with writer Picaret; and 23 visions of utopias lost and found from the talented creators of comics past, present, and future.

Utopia has been chased by sentient beings since the beginning of time. But what is it? Where is it? When? How? This installment of Humanoids’ celebrated genre anthology explores “heaven on earth” (and beyond), and the systems that have made it impossible, illusory, or brief, warping it into its darker dystopian mirror… Inside this 272-page tome: Interviews with filmmaker, documentarian, and “cult” expert Jodi Wille ( The Source Family, Welcome Space Brothers ), and utopian sci-fi master Kim Stanley Robinson ( The Mars Trilogy, Ministry for the Future ); a brief glimpse of French legend Tardi, and the complete Polonius , his rare, depraved 44-page work with writer Picaret; and 23 visions of utopias lost and found from the talented creators of comics past, present, and future.

THE ORIGINAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY THAT ROCKED THE WORLD OF SCIENCE FICTION AND COMICS IS NOW BACK IN PRINT WITH A MONSTROUS THIRD ISSUE. Go ahead. Let out your inner monster. We’re all friends here. What makes a monster? Is it a strange and horrific physiology? A cruel and vicious disposition? A malevolent and otherworldly air? Perhaps the answers lie under your bed. In the deep, dark woods. Behind your eyes. Monsters lurk everywhere, and you will find them aplenty—from the deceptively adorable to the mind-breakingly incomprehensible, from the fantastical to the all-too-real—within this installment of Humanoids’ celebrated genre anthology, Metal Hurlant . Inside this 272-page monster of a tome: an interview with writer/director/producer Brian Yuzna ( Society, Bride of Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead 3 ), a study of Noël Carroll’s taxonomy of monsters , a brief walk through the enduring legacy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , and 25 tales of magnificent monstrosity from these terrifyingly talented comics creators: ALESSANDRO SAIU, BROUETTE HURLANTE, CECYLE BAY, CORBEYRAN, DERF BACKDERF, ELENE USDIN, ELIE HUAULT, ENKI BILAL, GWENDAL BRIEC, JEAN-CLAUDE MÉZIÈRES, JEAN-PIERRE DIONNET, JIM BISHOP, JORG DE VOS, JUREK MALOTTKE, KELECK, KOREN SHADMI, MARC CARO, MATTHEW ALLISON, MICHAEL HALMOS, MIRAN KIM, MŒBIUS, NEYEF, NICOLAS BÈGUE, NICOLE CLAVELOUX, RURIK SALLÉ, RYAN HESHKA, SALVADOR SANZ, STEPHANE LEVALLOIS, TIM ADAM, VINCENT BONAVOGLIA

THE ORIGINAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY THAT ROCKED THE WORLD OF SCIENCE FICTION AND COMICS IS NOW BACK IN PRINT WITH A MONSTROUS THIRD ISSUE. Go ahead. Let out your inner monster. We’re all friends here. What makes a monster? Is it a strange and horrific physiology? A cruel and vicious disposition? A malevolent and otherworldly air? Perhaps the answers lie under your bed. In the deep, dark woods. Behind your eyes. Monsters lurk everywhere, and you will find them aplenty—from the deceptively adorable to the mind-breakingly incomprehensible, from the fantastical to the all-too-real—within this installment of Humanoids’ celebrated genre anthology, Metal Hurlant . Inside this 272-page monster of a tome: an interview with writer/director/producer Brian Yuzna ( Society, Bride of Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead 3 ), a study of Noël Carroll’s taxonomy of monsters , a brief walk through the enduring legacy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein , and 25 tales of magnificent monstrosity from these terrifyingly talented comics creators: ALESSANDRO SAIU, BROUETTE HURLANTE, CECYLE BAY, CORBEYRAN, DERF BACKDERF, ELENE USDIN, ELIE HUAULT, ENKI BILAL, GWENDAL BRIEC, JEAN-CLAUDE MÉZIÈRES, JEAN-PIERRE DIONNET, JIM BISHOP, JORG DE VOS, JUREK MALOTTKE, KELECK, KOREN SHADMI, MARC CARO, MATTHEW ALLISON, MICHAEL HALMOS, MIRAN KIM, MŒBIUS, NEYEF, NICOLAS BÈGUE, NICOLE CLAVELOUX, RURIK SALLÉ, RYAN HESHKA, SALVADOR SANZ, STEPHANE LEVALLOIS, TIM ADAM, VINCENT BONAVOGLIA

The Original Graphic Anthology that rocked the world of science fiction and comics is reborn--probing deep into the past, examining the present, and blazing into the future! 50 years after the debut of Metal Hurlant in France, the iconic and genre-defining publication is finally coming to the English language, and in bigger and bolder form than ever before: as a quarterly anthology published by Humanoids. Each volume of Metal Hurlant will feature 272+ pages of a one-of-a-kind, otherworldly, literary experience, expertly curated from archival material from the original '70s and '80s run, along with top A-list and up-and-coming creators from around the globe. "AS A KID IT REALLY WAS AN ELECTROSHOCK. I DON'T KNOW IF MY BRAIN MELTED OR EXPLODED... BUT I'M STILL HAUNTED BY THE POWER OF CREATIVITY THAT WAS IN THOSE BOXES." --DENIS VILLENEUVE, speaking with NPR about his intro to sci-fi via boxes of Metal Hurlant First Issue features works from: ALIAS - MATTHEW ALLISON - DERF BACKDERF - YANN B?CU - FRED BLANCHARD - PIM BOSS - YURI CAMPOS - LENO CARVALHO - CAZA - NICOLE CLAVELOUX - JEAN-PIERRE DIONNET - PHILIPPE DRUILLET -MATT FRACTION - JEAN-CLAUDE GAL - ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY - AFIF KHALED KILLOFFER - SIMON LECLERC - MASHA MORAN - MOEBIUS - JEAN-MICHEL NICOLLET - KARLA PACHECO - FREDERIK PEETERS - PHILIPPE PICARET - NIKOLA PISAREV - HOMERO RIOS - SAGAR FRAN?OIS SCHUITEN - LUC SCHUITEN - PETER SNEJBERG - JAMES STOKOE - KEVIN SULLIVAN - JAKE THOMAS - EL?NE USDIN - JORG DE VOS - YANG WEILIN - EDITH ZHA

The Original Graphic Anthology that rocked the world of science fiction and comics is reborn--probing deep into the past, examining the present, and blazing into the future! 50 years after the debut of Metal Hurlant in France, the iconic and genre-defining publication is finally coming to the English language, and in bigger and bolder form than ever before: as a quarterly anthology published by Humanoids. Each volume of Metal Hurlant will feature 272+ pages of a one-of-a-kind, otherworldly, literary experience, expertly curated from archival material from the original '70s and '80s run, along with top A-list and up-and-coming creators from around the globe. "AS A KID IT REALLY WAS AN ELECTROSHOCK. I DON'T KNOW IF MY BRAIN MELTED OR EXPLODED... BUT I'M STILL HAUNTED BY THE POWER OF CREATIVITY THAT WAS IN THOSE BOXES." --DENIS VILLENEUVE, speaking with NPR about his intro to sci-fi via boxes of Metal Hurlant First Issue features works from: ALIAS - MATTHEW ALLISON - DERF BACKDERF - YANN B?CU - FRED BLANCHARD - PIM BOSS - YURI CAMPOS - LENO CARVALHO - CAZA - NICOLE CLAVELOUX - JEAN-PIERRE DIONNET - PHILIPPE DRUILLET -MATT FRACTION - JEAN-CLAUDE GAL - ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY - AFIF KHALED KILLOFFER - SIMON LECLERC - MASHA MORAN - MOEBIUS - JEAN-MICHEL NICOLLET - KARLA PACHECO - FREDERIK PEETERS - PHILIPPE PICARET - NIKOLA PISAREV - HOMERO RIOS - SAGAR FRAN?OIS SCHUITEN - LUC SCHUITEN - PETER SNEJBERG - JAMES STOKOE - KEVIN SULLIVAN - JAKE THOMAS - EL?NE USDIN - JORG DE VOS - YANG WEILIN - EDITH ZHA

THE ORIGINAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY THAT ROCKED THE WORLD OF SCIENCE FICTION AND COMICS IS NOW BACK IN PRINT WITH A STELLAR SECOND ISSUE. In space there is no oxygen. No warmth. No life. No hope. Or is there? The premiere sci-fi comics anthology from Humanoids travels the vast reaches of the cosmos to answer the question, when we stare into space, what stares back? The greatest comic creators of yesterday and today have the stars as their destination as they deliver tales of extra-terrestrial encounters, alien landscapes, isolation, exploration, paranoia, survival, and hope in the unforgiving darkness of the ever-expanding universe. Inside, all packed into 272 pages of interstellar wonder: an interview with Star Trek franchise science advisor Dr. Erin Macdonald, an exploration into a German WWII device of destruction remade into an image of aspiration by NASA historian Lois Rosson, illustrations, and twenty-four undeniably out-of-this-world cosmic comics from: AFIF KHALED, AIM?E DE JONGH, ALIAS, AUR?LIE CROP, BENJAMIN FOGEL, BRANKO JELINEK, DAMIEN CUVILLIER, DARIA SCHMITT, ELGO, ELIE HUAULT, ENKI BILAL, FABIEN GROLLEAU, JEAN-CLAUDE M?ZI?RES, JEAN-PIERRE DIONNET, JERRY FRISSEN, JORG DE VOS, KARL JOHNSSON, LAURENT SIEFER, MARC CARO, MARK WAID, MATTHEW SHEEAN, MOEBIUS, NIKOLA PISAREV, PHILIPPE DRUILLET, RICHARD GU?RINEAU, SERGE CLERC, SWANN MERALLI, VIRGINIE AUGUSTIN, YANG WEILIN, ZAC DELOUPY, ZOEAMI

THE ORIGINAL GRAPHIC ANTHOLOGY THAT ROCKED THE WORLD OF SCIENCE FICTION AND COMICS IS NOW BACK IN PRINT WITH A STELLAR SECOND ISSUE. In space there is no oxygen. No warmth. No life. No hope. Or is there? The premiere sci-fi comics anthology from Humanoids travels the vast reaches of the cosmos to answer the question, when we stare into space, what stares back? The greatest comic creators of yesterday and today have the stars as their destination as they deliver tales of extra-terrestrial encounters, alien landscapes, isolation, exploration, paranoia, survival, and hope in the unforgiving darkness of the ever-expanding universe. Inside, all packed into 272 pages of interstellar wonder: an interview with Star Trek franchise science advisor Dr. Erin Macdonald, an exploration into a German WWII device of destruction remade into an image of aspiration by NASA historian Lois Rosson, illustrations, and twenty-four undeniably out-of-this-world cosmic comics from: AFIF KHALED, AIM?E DE JONGH, ALIAS, AUR?LIE CROP, BENJAMIN FOGEL, BRANKO JELINEK, DAMIEN CUVILLIER, DARIA SCHMITT, ELGO, ELIE HUAULT, ENKI BILAL, FABIEN GROLLEAU, JEAN-CLAUDE M?ZI?RES, JEAN-PIERRE DIONNET, JERRY FRISSEN, JORG DE VOS, KARL JOHNSSON, LAURENT SIEFER, MARC CARO, MARK WAID, MATTHEW SHEEAN, MOEBIUS, NIKOLA PISAREV, PHILIPPE DRUILLET, RICHARD GU?RINEAU, SERGE CLERC, SWANN MERALLI, VIRGINIE AUGUSTIN, YANG WEILIN, ZAC DELOUPY, ZOEAMI