Philippe Adamov
Philippe Adamov ( June 27, 1956 - February 3, 2020 ) was a French comic artist .
Life
Adamov began his career as a science fiction illustrator and turned to comics from 1983.
He achieved his breakthrough with the series The Wind of the Gods , in which he, in collaboration with the copywriter Patrick Cothias, takes the reader to 13th century Japan. There the young samurai Tchen-Quin receives the order from his master to clear the borders of the empire from a gang of rebels. An odyssey begins that takes him to Mongolian-occupied China and includes, among other things, a meeting with Marco Polo . Thierry Gioux played a key role in the drawings from volume 5.
Adamov continued to work a lot with Cothias; The result was the series In the Shadow of the New Moon , in which they designed an absolutist but elegant end-time scenario, which, however, exceeds its climax in Volume 5 and then degenerates into a confused epic overloaded with mysticism and an overflowing cosmos of characters.
He later developed the project Die Rote Kaiserin , a mixture of sci-fi and court intrigue, together with copywriter Jean Dufaux .
Works
- The Wind of the Gods (together with the copywriter Patrick Cothias , 16 volumes 1983–2009, German vol. 1–11 at Splitter ; vol. 12–15 at Kult Editions; vol. 16 at Finix Comics )
- In the shadow of the new moon (together with Cothias, 10 volumes since 1988, German at Comicplus + , Hamburg)
- Dayak (together with Cothias, 3 volumes 1993-'97, German at Comicplus, Hamburg)
- The red empress (together with the copywriter Jean Dufaux , 4 volumes 2002–2008, German volumes 1–3 in Kult Editions; volume 4 in Finix Comics )
literature
- Marcel Feige (ed.): The small comic dictionary . Berlin 2005
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adamov, Philippe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French comic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1956 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd February 2020 |