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[[File:Druillet1.jpg|frame|An example of Druillet's art.]]
'''Philippe Druillet''' (born 1944), is a graphic artist of the French-Belgian school of comics.
An amateur illustrator since childhood, he grows up an avid cinephile and discovers the works of [[
In 1966, his first album, "The Mystery of the Abyss", is published. It introduces what will become his recurring hero, the space mercenary Lone Sloane. In 1969, he meets [[Moebius|Jean Giraud]] and starts publishing his works in the illustrated weekly ''Pilote''. His style becomes increasingly flamboyant and visually challenging; doing away with panels altogether, he fills the whole page with [[Scenery Porn|highly detailed and color-saturated drawings]].
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His recurring main character is Lone Sloane, a [[The Drifter|drifter]] [[Anti-Hero]] who wanders throughout space in a [[Grimdark]] far future full of decadent civilizations and [[Eldritch Abominations]]. As a catharsis for his wife's struggle with--and eventual death from--cancer, Druillet writes the one-shot ''Night'' in 1975. This album is characterized, even more than the rest of his oeuvre, by a tone of darkness, despair and nihilistic pessimism.
His next major work, published in 1980, is the ''Salammbo'' trilogy, a [[Space Opera]] [[Recycled in Space|adaptation]] of Gustave Flaubert's [[Salammbo
More examples of his art can be found on his [http://www.druillet.com/ website].
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