During the Lyon BD Festival, macLYON is hosting an exhibition of work by British comic book artist Charlie Adlard.
The exhibition is entitled Charlie Adlard, The Walking Dead and Beyond... and presents more than a hundred pieces of original artwork and drawings by this renowned artist, best known as the penciller, since 2004, on the cult comic strip The Walking Dead. The macLYON exhibition Charlie Adlard, The Walking Dead and Beyond… plunges the visitor into the visual and sound universe of Charlie Adlard.
The artist
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Nom de l'artisteCharlie Adlard
Born in 1966 in Shrewsbury (United Kingdom). After studying at the Maidstone College of Art, he moved to London to work in the film industry. Back in Shrewsbury, he focused on drawing and, in 1992, signed his first contract with the weekly comic magazine 2000 AD. Projects began to pour in and his career was launched. In the United Kingdom, Charlie Adlard is known for his work on White Death with Robbie Morrison, and his drawings for 2000 AD, especially the series Judge Dredd, Armitage and Savage. In the United States, he is best known for his images for Mars Attacks!, The X-Files, Batman: Gotham Knights and The Walking Dead. The world of Marvel comics, Franco-Belgian bande dessinées, genre cinema and rock music have all influenced Charlie Adlard and he has made a huge mark on the comic book industry with his graphic style – an illusion of movement and texture in his drawings, and an interplay of thick and dark lines.
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The original pencil and ink artwork for The Walking Dead and the drawings for various past and future publishing projects make up the graphic component of the exhibition space; it is accompanied by sounds and the video of a performance by Charlie Adlard and composer Julien Limonne in Los Angeles. The Charlie Adlard projects presented in the show stand at the intersection of various genres–horror, science fiction, adventure and historical fiction.
What they all have in common is their exploration of the complexity of human psychology through interweaving stories of heroes and anti-heroes struggling with their destiny.
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The Walking Dead
Since 2003, Image Comics (Writer: Robert Kirkman)
Following a mysterious epidemic, the world has been invaded by the undead. A small group of people organised around Rick Grimes, a former police officer, struggle to survive. The series has been appearing since 2003 and now runs to 31 volumes.
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Vampire State Building
2019, éditions Soleil (Writers: Ange and Patrick Renault)
Up on the 86th floor of the Empire State Building before leaving to serve in Afghanistan, Terry and his friends are trapped by an army of vampires attacking the skyscraper.
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White Death
1998, Les Cartoonistes Dangereux (Writer: Robbie Morrison)
This album is about a little-known episode from the First World War. On the Italian front, the soldiers’ greatest fear was “White Death”, the avalanches provoked by gunfire. For this album, Charlie Adlard experimented with a combination of charcoal and white chalk on grey paper.
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