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Bookplate signed by André Juillard: Feather in the Wind - Indian Ariane
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Ex-libris signed by André Juillard: Plume aux Vents - Ariane Indienne
Image from the series Plume aux Vents which follows the adventures of Ariane de Troïl in the Americas, including her life in an Indian tribe.
Technique: Offset
Support: Thick art paper and vellum
Dimensions: 16.5 x 25 cm
Plume aux vents
The series Plume aux vents consists of 4 volumes, starring Ariane de Troïl and directly following the 7 volumes of The 7 Lives of the Epervier, which is itself a prequel to Masquerouge. Other series will follow, as a total of 55 albums make up the Epervier saga.
Written by Patrick Cothias and illustrated (for the majority of the albums) by André Juillard, the series has enjoyed (and still enjoys) great success. Its historical accuracy, the high quality of Juillard's artwork, and the development of the characters make it one of the reference series in the world of comics.
The series Plume aux vents follows the adventures of Ariane de Troïl, just after her duel with Chevalier Condor, fought under the mask of the Epervier, which she survived despite her injuries. (End of Volume 7 of The 7 Lives of the Epervier - The Mark of the Condor)
Leaving behind her newborn daughter (future Anne de Lenclos), whom she had with her lover Germain Grandpin, Ariane sets off for New France (present-day Quebec) in search of the man she believes to be her biological father: Gabriel de Troïl.
There, over 4 volumes, she will experience extraordinary adventures in the Americas of that time, where the Iroquois adapted to the harsh conditions of life, while the "newcomers" struggled to survive as their numbers increased with each ship arriving from Europe.
Falling under the spell of Beau-Ténébreux, she pursues the man the Indians call Thunderbird, her father, through the landscapes of the Canadian Great North.
She will finally return to the lands of the Troïl castle after a journey that has made her a different woman...
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JUILLARD André
André JUILLARD is a French writer and cartoonist. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and, in parallel, he took drawing classes, oriented comics, taught in Vincennes (between 1972 and 1973), by Druillet, Mézières and Giraud! He published his first drawing in 1974 in Formula 1.
During the 1970s, although he published many historical comics (mainly in Fleurus), they met with little success. It is in Pif Gadget that Hide (on Patrick Cothias scenarios) is published starting in 1980. After Pif’s change of formula, both authors take back their rights to the series and take it to Circus. To adapt to the more adult audience of the new publication, both authors modify their series and now call it The 7 Lives of the Hawk. The albums, published from 1983 onwards, met with immediate success.
Critical recognition increased with the release of Le Cahien Bleu. Screenwriter and cartoonist, he abandons the historical comic to place his story in the contemporary world and manages, by its very precise division, to bring an astonishing modernity to his story.
After the 7 volumes of the 7 Lives of the Hawk, he continues, always with Cothias the adventure with Feather to the Wind (which is a sequel to the Hawk) in 4 volumes. He then takes the masterpiece of Jacobs: Blake and Mortimer (alongside Yves Sente. The 7 albums they will produce will be a public success. He also works with Christin for the Lena series, before publishing one-shot such as Mezek (with Yann) or Double 7.
The classicism of Juillard’s drawing, mixed with a purification of the line that is asserted over the years, its vast compositions and full of details just as its infinitely cinematic close-ups impose it as one of the best draftsmen (and illustrators) of its generation.
He leaves us at the age of 76, on July 31, 2024.