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In 1974, feeling constrained by the editorial guidelines at ''Pilote'', he leaves the magazine and, along with Giraud and Jean-Pierre Dionnet, he co-founds the alternative magazine ''Métal Hurlant'' (published in the US under the title ''Heavy Metal'') and the publishing house Les Humanoides Associés.

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 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 (Literature)|eponymous novel]], in which Lone Sloane is incarnated as the Carthaginian warrior Matho. After the turn of the 1990s, he becomes less active as a graphic artist, but, along with [[Moebius]], remains a reference for an entire generation of illustrators.

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