Illustration

Illustration Information
Year1979
DescriptionLa gerbe noire des contes de Jean Ray
DraftsmanAndreas
Context Information
Magazine Publication(A Suivre) (1979, number 21)
Magazine PublicationStripSchrift (1984, number 181)
Comments
from the article "Rork and the fantastic (1995)":
In March 1982 appear the last short stories of Rork in Tintin/Hello BD (fr); Kuifje (nl). In October of that same year the prepublication of Cromwell Stone starts in Le Journal Illustré (le plus grande du monde) of publisher Deligne (Michel).
Andreas: After Révélations posthumes I had prepared a new project for (A Suivre). It was a rather long story of 120 pages. They refused it at (A Suivre). I didn't continue it then. It was a somewhat fantastic story, something better suited for Tintin/Hello BD (fr); Kuifje (nl). So they were quite right for not wanting it. In the meanwhile I had left Tintin/Hello BD (fr); Kuifje (nl) and was suddenly out of work. Luckily my friend Antonio Cossu was in charge of a new series of black-and-white comics at Deligne (Michel). Then I said to him: "I want to do something for you." I knew Deligne, because he had published one of my stories from my time at Saint-Luc, four plates based on a story by Jean Ray. Deligne was interested in my offer and paid me - for that time - extremely well. He paid more than Tintin.
During the making of Cromwell Stone I moved to Brittany. I wrote it in Paris, I drew it in Bretagne.