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Undertaker

Series · 8 books

By Xavier Dorison, Ralph Meyer, Caroline Delabie

Numa pequena vila do Texas arruinada e destruída pela Guerra da Sucessão, Sister Oz, guru da chamada Liga da Virtude, convenceu a população de que conseguiriam recuperar a sua boa fortuna aos olhos do divino se fizessem justiça pelas próprias mãos… e impedissem Eleonor Winthorp de fazer um aborto. Para isso, todo os meios são justificados: humilhação, intimidação, chantagem e, porque não, matar Randolph Prairie, o médico que se oferece para praticar a operação? Mas Jonas Crow, o Undertaker, ergue-se para proteger aquele que é, apesar de tudo, o seu rival amoroso a fim de permitir a Eleonor que escolha o seu próprio destino. Nesta aldeia perdida, que oscila entre a liberdade e o fanatismo, cada um deve escolher o seu lado, mesmo que isso signifique perder a vida. Ninguém sairá ileso do mundo segundo Oz. “O MUNDO SEGUNDO OZ”, o oitavo tomo da série, encerra o quarto ciclo de Undertaker considerada como uma das melhores séries de western da BD europeia.

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Born in Paris in 1971, Ralph Meyer was very young when he first started to cultivate his taste for drawing and stories. When the time came to think about what to do with his life, it seemed natural to choose comic books. As an insatiable young reader, he enjoyed the slapstick humor of Gaston and the adventures of Blake and Mortimer just as much as the existential problems of tight-clad superheroes populating the Strange comics monthly. His discovery of the work of Giraud (aka Moebius) during his adolescence would later have a considerable influence on his own work. At 20, he left Paris and moved to Belgium to take illustration classes at the Saint-Luc Institute in Liège. When he finished his three-year course, he began approaching publishers with various different projects, but to no avail. In 1996, he decided to present his work to writer Philippe Tome. Tome offered Meyer a particularly sinister plot to work with. A year later, they released the first volume of the Berceuse Assassine trilogy (1997 Dargaud, 2016 Europe Comics, Lethal Lullaby). In the meantime, he founded with a few other authors the "Parfois j'ai dur” workshop. This was where he produced Des Lendemains sans nuages (Le Lombard; Clear Blue Tomorrows, Cinebook) which he co-illustrated with Bruno Gazzotti, with Fabien Vehlmann writing the script. Next up, still with Vehlmann, he started the sci-fi series IAN (Dargaud; Cinebook in English) which narrates the adventures of a being of artificial intelligence, complete with human skin and nerves. In 2008, he and Xavier Dorison released the first volume of the XIII Mystery collection (Dargaud, Cinebook in English), for which he was awarded the Brussels 'St. Michel' prize for illustration. The year 2010 saw quite the graphic turnaround for Meyer, with Page Noire, a one-shot scripted by Denis Lapière and Frank Giroud. In 2012, he and Xavier Dorison teamed up once again for the Nordic landscapes of the Asgard diptych (Dargaud), soon followed by a third collaboration on the on-going series Undertaker, which continues to enjoy unprecedented success (Dargaud 2015, Europe Comics 2016). Ralph Meyer lives in Liège with his family and his cat 'Microbe.'

Xavier Dorison

Author · 25 books

Xavier Dorison est né en 1972 à Paris et passe trois années en école de commerce, où il organise le festival BD des Grandes Écoles, puis travaille chez Barclays Corp. Dès 1997, il écrit le premier tome du Troisième Testament, série co-scénarisé et dessiné par Alex Alice qui remporte un succès immédiat. Il publie ensuite deux séries aux Humanoïdes Associés : Prophet avec Matthieu Lauffray et Sanctuaire avec Christophe Bec. Il co-scénarise, avec Fabien Nury, le film Brigades du Tigre, qui sera également adapté en bande dessinée aux éditions Glénat avec Jean-Yves Delitte au dessin. Il co-scénarise, toujours avec Fabien Nury, le western fantastique W.E.S.T. mis en image par Christian Rossi. Et lance début 2007 une fresque pirate : Long John Silver. En 2008, il crée la série Les Sentinelles et participe au projet XIII Mystery, en scénarisant l'album sur La Mangouste. En 2008 également, il écrit Le Syndrome d'Abel pour son comparse Marazano, de retour au dessin. En septembre 2010, il s’associe à nouveau avec Alex Alice et commence la publication de l’antésuite du Troisième Testament, intitulée Julius, toujours chez Glénat. En mars 2012, paraît chez Dargaud le premier tome d’Asgard, série dans l’univers des vikings, dessinée par Ralph Meyer. En 2013 paraîtra chez Glénat une série coécrite avec son frère Guillaume Dorison.