BEST of Heavy Metal Magazine 1977 To 1979 Caza Bilal Druillet Moebius Claveloux Science Fiction Art
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2022
- BEST of Heavy Metal Magazine 1977 To 1979. Featuring science fiction, horror, and fantasy art by Caza, Bilal, Druillet, Moebius, Claveloux, and more. U.S. Science Fiction Art magazine based upon the original French publication METAL HURLANT.
Although this book could have easily been 200 pages, the Heavy Metal staff do a very good job representing some of the prime artists of the period but popular Metal Hurlant and Heavy Metal magazine artists like Bode, Gal, and Alexis are strangely absent from this volume.
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Another good one, Mike. You've inspired me to dig out my old Heavy Metal mags and go through them. When I commented on one of your streams that Heavy Metal is "hard to collect", I exaggerated a bit, but it's harder to list publications with a lot of volume numbers than it is to list just ongoing issue numbers. I did it with Eerie Pubs, but I won't tackle that for HM. Also, the heavy paper HM is printed on makes the weight add up quickly. I only have around 20 issues of HM and I'll probably just enjoy a sampling of issues instead of trying to complete the run which would be a daunting task. I already have too many mags to easily store anyway, so I'll avoid the completist rabbit-hole of HM. Still fun to have decent sampling, though.
I agree with you on the completist thing 100 percent. There's no way I'd collect all issues of Heavy Metal and I really think that 1977 to 1984 or so was the high point anyway with some occasionally good issues after that. I have about 20 or so issues as well but another 20 Metal Hurlant and another dozen Metal Hurlant in Spanish and another 12 or so TOTEM, the original spanish language Metal Hurlant. I'll continue to get issues here and there and some special issues or books they put out.
@@horrormike With this immense advantage of being French (i mean french at THIS time, in the city where Metal hurlant was begenning) , crazy lover of comics and begenning to go out of the (sympathetic) gettho of Asterix, Tintin etc, I devoured Valerian and collected Creepy, Eery, Vampirella in French. However, it took me long to notice that something was rustling and beginning to extend its long and sumptuous sooty and blackish wings, scraping the stones of its cellar in the darkness of becoming. Finally I had my first Métal Hurlant in my clutches, an incredible Mezière cover where a sort of soldier was trudging through the jungle, gun in hand. I had just become an associated humanoid and I was not yet aware of it...
And since then I have wandered the quais and their bookstores, the comic book shops, from the most majestic to those buried at improbable angles - starting of course with the incipit of all pilgrimages: the passage through the Rue des petites écuries.The Adress of Metal Hurlant. That's where I met someone who trully looked a lot like Dionnet himself, with glasses and a great deal of energy who convinced the absolute nobody who know almost nothing - ME ! -that I must buy at once Exterminator 17 and Arzach with other mags from my list (Metal Hurlant numbers). I had hardly any money and it showed, so he had the immense kindness to give me a price not only for Le Bandard fou which had just been added to the group of books and magazines but for the whole thing. Even after so many years of distance, I prefer to keep silent about the inconceivable loss that he made and which most probably came from my 12 years so passionate, so admiring, so open to this new realm... For the rest, I left with the number 1 of Métal which was not yet sold out, the 4, the 5, the 6 and so on until the 10 which represented a helmeted amazon with a clearly warlike appearance, symbol of what would still stand in my way until the day I can proclaim "All of them! I HAVE ALL OF THEM". That is to say from 1 to 133. From the first one purchased (Mezière cover!) it was easy. Those that were difficult to dig were the 3rd, the 14 th (or was it the15??) and others that I will keep quiet, you never know. As for the 2, it was not difficult to find but horribly expensive and I am one of those who find that there is no sport in having your prey by paying the maximum: 60 francs for this 2! when I think that I got the 3, although much rarer, for 15 francs...
Well, I didn't intend to write that much.
Just to say that for France, the great era of Metal Hurlant magazine goes from 1 to 133. After, it's not a good comics anymore. And to be frank, except forARN that begin in n°56, all is finish at n°50, with the radiant, vibrant face of Dionnet on the full cover which, symbolically, is the best tombstone that could be offered to the newspaper .But here, I'm really playing the ultra shitty boring purists. Because...
You will still find plenty of great stuff in quite a few issues which will follow the 50th. Obviously seeing Hugo Pratt appear in the middle of Metal, and not the adventurous Prat of Corto but the die-hard of the meetings in the forests can disorient the fan. But after all, the true metal fan loves to be. jostled. And then shit. There are fabulous drawings, stories like you won't find anywhere else so... What do the people want? If a number comes along that no longer suits you or the next one does the same to you, then you will know that it is time to stop. Until then, I think you still have quite a few shots to take safety free without dangers ^^
Spettacolo 🤪
Benissimo!
Thanks for taking us along Mike I missed out on these but love when you go through your books 🤘🏽🤘🏽
I agree, Jacob. Mike is doing great work on the Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant coverage.
Thank you, Jacob, I've just gotten started! Some really cool Heavy Metal/Metal Hurlant stuff coming up soon.
@@michaeldodd6902 thank you sir!
Heavy metal had ground breaking art and material
yes they did, Philip, one of my favorite illustrated magazines of all time.
You're doing GOD'$ Work!!!✊🏽 My 🥷🏽!!!
Nice review of a classic mag collection!
An early fan from the very start, graduating from mags like Eerie and Creepy.
I'd buy HM and read every issue (featuring the art of Moebius and other European illustrators)
during my early 20's making a special trip into downtown Hollywood on a Saturday, or stopping by during my lunch break from the studios, just to pick up the latest issue from that well-known mega news stand just off Hollywood Boulevard, while that giant wall mural of Hollywood's most famous culture stars from past decades gazed down on me...
How ironic to pick up Heavy Metal in downtown Hollywood, just seems to fit!
Thanks for watching, Vidiot, I too lived in So Cal for years. In the 80's I'd go to Larry Edmunds and Cherokee book stores in Hollywood for all the Creepy, Eerie, Famous Monsters, movie posters etc. They had a ton of stuff.
@@horrormike Awe cool! Me and a friend would hit all the book stores on the blvd since the mid 70's since I was 14, after the Metro bus line first opened from the El Monte station into Downtown. Went there regularly, I'm sure we probably passed each other in the book stores, I was the big guy with long hair and a beard! 😂
@@vidiot9006 that's awesome, man, we may have crossed paths! Do you recall the L.A. Science Fiction and Fantasy Society run by Dr. Donald Reed or LASFS? I was a member of both, used to go to screenings and meetings late 70s early 80s
Hi Mike cool Best of Heavy Metal mag unfortunately i can't give you much feedback on Heavy Metal. Though i was aware of Heavy Metal i never followed it. I was searching ebay for that book on Dave Stevens that you showed on you're Friday show. You're right that book can be expensive. Happy New Year Mike.
Happy New Year, Michael Taylor! Keep tabs on the Dave Stevens book and you will eventually find a reasonably priced copy.
This new version of Métal Hurlant comes out every 3 months with the first issue being all new material and the following issue features classic stories and it continues being this way, issue #6 will be out soon.
Yes, Francisco, this is a great idea from Les Humanoides. 4 issues per year, 2 new and 2 classic. This is something that Heavy Metal in the U.S. should be doing and perhaps they will follow Metal Hurlant's idea. I would love to see an English or Spanish language version of the new Metal Hurlant, do you know if they are printing it in other languages?
@@horrormike I haven't heard or seen anything mentioning that it was being exported anywhere else yet. This new venture started has a crowfunding project and turned out being a big fiasco even tho reaching its goals released a very disappointing first issue. Gladly the the new editor in chief Jerry Frissen and with the assistance of Jean Pierre Dionnet brought back the old feel and vibe of the original magazine an keeping this old ships crew on time and schedule.
@@franciscoh.laranjo6978 this is very good news that Dionnet is on board with Frissen. For now I will just to have to get the French editions and translate them. Have you heard anything about the proposed film version of "The Incal?" I read that it is in pre-production but no date set for filming or release. This could be a big boost for both Metal Hurlant and Heavy Metal.
@@horrormike Yes I did don't get me wrong I would love for an Incal movie but I won't get my hopes too high because Waititi can be the perfect director for it but it could also all go wrong like his last few films. 🤞 btw I've just subbed an being enjoyed your videos and live streams. I got very lucky around a month and half I got my hands on a almost complete run of Dionnet run of MH in one shot. Those are getting real hard too get your hands on even here in Québec.
@@franciscoh.laranjo6978 Thanks for subscribing and thanks for the information on this, I really appreciate it. I buy some original 1970's issues of Metal Hurlant when I can because the art reproduction is better than the Heavy Metal magazine reproductions. That is great that you have the Dionnet run of MH. I wonder if Philippe Druillet is still going to conventions. It would be fantastic if Druillet, Dionnet, and Frisson attended some conventions to promote the new Metal Hurlant, I would definitely go to one of those.
Greetings , Master Ciudad de Mexico .
Saludos Ygor, Heavy Metal Maniac;)