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[[File:Bilal.jpg|frame|Bilal by himself.]]
'''Enki Bilal''' is a graphic artist of the French-Belgian comic books school. Born in Yugoslavia in 1951 from a Bosnian father and a Slovakian mother, he moved to France in 1960. In 1971, he started out in the world of comics by drawing political cartoons for the illustrated weekly ''Pilote'' (whose editor-in-chief was [[Rene Goscinny]]). After a stint at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, in 1972 ''Pilote'' published his first story, "L'Appel des Etoiles" a.k.a. "Le Bol Maudit".
He met Pierre Christin (scenarist of ''[[Valerian]]'') at ''Pilote'', and from then on the two men would collaborate on several stories: "The Cruise of Lost Souls", "Ship of Stone", "The Town that didn't exist", "The Black Order Brigade", and most famously "The Hunting Party". This seminal album, written in 1980, analyzed the systemic sclerosis of the Soviet Bloc and prophesized its imminent collapse.
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As a bit of trivia, it's been theorised that [[The Rival|Viral]] from ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' was named after him - "Bilal" and "Viral" would be pronounced the same in Japanese, Viral pilots a mecha called the Enki, and his [[Leitmotif]] is called "Nikopol," while Bilal wrote the Nikopol Trilogy.
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* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: "The Carnival of Immortals" is set in a [[Dystopia|dystopian future]] Paris, but ''Immortal'' is set in a slightly less dystopian New York.
* [[Badass Grandpa]]: The heroes ''and'' the villains of "The Black Order Brigade".
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