published on 2024-10-11 14:30 EDT by Alex Mateo
© Satelight/Dargaud-Marina/Europacorp
French paper Le Monde reported that author Pierre Christin (Valerian & & Laureline )passed away on October 3 in Paris. He was 86.
Christin was born at Saint-Mandé on July 27, 1938. His enthusiasms were piano jazz and literature. He worked as a reporter, author, and teacher. Christin produced would end up being the school of journalism at Bordeaux University. He likewise took a trip to the U.S. as a going to speaker in 1965, and ended up being an instructor of French modern literature at Salt Lake City University in Utah.
Christin debuted the sci-fi graphic unique series Valerian & & Laureline in Pilote publication in 1967 with artist Jean-Claude Mézières (The Fifth Element set style). The series ended in 2010. The series influenced the 2007 French/Japanese anime coproduction Time Jam: Valerian & & Laureline (visualized right). Anime studio Satelight coproduced the tv series with French animation studio Dargaud-Marina and supplier EuropaCorp. All 40 episodes are streaming in English on Crunchyroll. Sentai Filmworks launched the series on home video. The graphic books likewise motivated the Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets movie in 2017.
Thanks to Delphine Maurette from ANN's French group for support with this post.
Sources: Le Monde, ICv2 (Milton Griepp)
