'Les Paysages de la Nuit', 1994.
Seven years after finishing graphic school at Nantes, Alex Barbier started working on his first comics for Charlie Mensuel. He set out to make a historic series. He is known mostly for this melancholic style as well as for his gay erotic drawings, in which loneliness features largely. His watercolor drawings are colorful and gloomy at the same time, while his comics also are marked by a strict division between images and texts.
'Comme Un Poulet Sans Tête', 1994.
After 'Lycaons' (1979) and 'Le Dieu du 12' (1982), published by Square, Barbier created 'Lettre au Maire de V.' in Hara-Kiri. However, this story remained unfinished due to the disappearance of the Hara-Kiri magazine. In the 1990s Delcourt published some albums of his work, like 'Les Paysages de la Nuit' and 'Comme un Poulet sans Tête'.
Alex Barbier was a strong graphic influence on Thierry Van Hasselt.
'Les Paysages de la Nuit', 1994.