Title: East-West
Description: Prolific comic book author Pierre Christin, who penned the game-changing classic sci-fi series "Valerian and Laureline," switches to autobiography here to bring us the thoughtful, enlightening tale of two vastly different lands, the American West during the civil rights movement and the counter-culture phenomenon, and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War, as seen through the eyes of an inquisitive French artist and journalist with a love for travel, intellectual query, gypsies, and jazz. Christin and his faithful road companion and "Valerian" co-creator Jean-Claude Mézières drive across landscapes ranging from Utah to Bulgaria in a series of cars each more dilapidated than the next, encountering people and adventures of all kinds in a story that is part travel journal, part geo-political documentary, and part artistic coming-of-age.
Subjects: Comic books, strips, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists,Architects,Photographers, ART / Techniques / Drawing, African American women, Civil rights, Segregation in transportation, Social conditions, Noires américaines, Bandes dessinées, Droits, Ségrégation dans le transport, Conditions sociales, FICTION, General, Poor children, Countesses, Social life and customs, Translations into English, Enfants pauvres, Comtesses, Mœurs et coutumes, ART, Techniques, Drawing, Manners and customs, History, FICTION / General, Medical care, Public health
People: Pierre Christin