Undertaker

Undertaker Vol. 1 · Europe Comics
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Undertaker Jonas Crow is charged with transporting the coffin of an ex-miner become millionaire back to the mining vein that made his fortune. The funeral should have been a calm affair, but there's an unexpected turn of events: on the eve of his death, Joe Cusco swallowed all his gold, so as to carry it with him for all eternity. Unfortunately, the secret was leaked, provoking the fury of all the miners of Anoki City. They can't just leave such a fortune to be buried while they're sweating their souls away in the mining shafts! As Jonas says, "death never comes alone..."

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Born in Paris in 1971, Ralph Meyer was very young when he first started to cultivate his taste for drawing and stories. When the time came to think about what to do with his life, it seemed natural to choose comic books. As an insatiable young reader, he enjoyed the slapstick humor of "Gaston" and the adventures of "Blake and Mortimer" just as much as the existential problems of tight-clad superheroes populating the "Strange" comics monthly. His discovery of the work of Giraud (aka Moebius) during his adolescence would later have a considerable influence on his own work. At 20, he left Paris and moved to Belgium to take illustration classes at the Saint-Luc Institute in Liège. When he finished his three-year course, he began approaching publishers with various different projects, but to no avail. In 1996, he decided to present his work to writer Philippe Tome. Tome offered Meyer a particularly sinister plot to work with. A year later, they released the first volume of the "Berceuse Assassine" trilogy (1997 Dargaud, 2016 Europe Comics, "Lethal Lullaby"). In the meantime, he founded with a few other authors the "Parfois j'ai dur" workshop. This was where he produced "Des Lendemains sans nuages" (Le Lombard; "Clear Blue Tomorrows," Cinebook) which he co-illustrated with Bruno Gazzotti, with Fabien Vehlmann writing the script. Next up, still with Vehlmann, he started the sci-fi series "IAN" (Dargaud; Cinebook in English) which narrates the adventures of a being of artificial intelligence, complete with human skin and nerves. In 2008, he and Xavier Dorison released the first volume of the "XIII Mystery" collection (Dargaud, Cinebook in English), for which he was awarded the Brussels 'St. Michel' prize for illustration. 2010 saw quite the graphic turnaround for Meyer, with "Page Noire," a one-shot scripted by Denis Lapière and Frank Giroud. In 2012, he and Xavier Dorison teamed up once again for the Nordic landscapes of the "Asgard" diptych, soon followed by a third collaboration on the on-going series "Undertaker," which continues to enjoy unprecedented success (2016, Europe Comics). Ralph Meyer lives in Liège with his family and his cat Microbe.

En publiant « Le Troisième Testament », son premier scénario, Xavier Dorison connaît un succès immédiat. À 25 ans, fraîchement diplômé d'une école de commerce, il commence ainsi une prometteuse carrière de scénariste. De « Sanctuaire » à « Long John Silver », en passant par W.E.S.T qu'il coscénarise avec son complice Fabien Nury, Xavier Dorison s'impose bientôt comme l'un des créateurs de mondes les plus doués de sa génération. Une puissance narrative, doublée d'une exigence personnelle, qui le conduit à se documenter, à analyser et à appréhender les règles d'écriture afin de mieux s'en détacher. Car, comme il le dit, non sans malice : « Avant d'écrire du Kubrick il faut savoir écrire du Hollywood Night ». En 2006, il signe le scénario du long-métrage « Les Brigades du Tigre » et intervient depuis comme « script doctor » sur de nombreux films. « Asgard », « XIII Mystery », « Le Syndrome d'Abel, « H.S.E », « Undertaker »... Xavier Dorison nous prouve qu'il maîtrise à fond le tempo des meilleures séries télévisées américaines, tout en y apportant sa patte personnelle. Ajoutons-y un sens de la réplique qui fait mouche. En 2014, il fait son entrée au Lombard avec « Le Chant du cygne », un diptyque qu'il coscénarise avec Emmanuel Herzet, dessiné par Cédric Babouche et proposé dans la collection « Signé ». Cette-même année, l'éditeur lui suggère d'intégrer l'univers « Thorgal ». « L'Île des enfants perdus », le sixième tome de « Kriss de Valnor », co-écrit avec Mathieu Mariolle et illustré par Roman Surzhenko, paraît fin 2015. Entre-temps, Xavier Dorison s'est attelé à la suite de la série-mère. Le fier Viking revient ainsi dans « Le Feu écarlate », un 35ème album de « Thorgal » enluminé par Grzegorz Rosinski et publié fin 2016.

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