{"id":15452,"date":"2014-07-25T02:25:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T01:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=15452"},"modified":"2014-07-25T02:25:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T01:25:52","slug":"du-tac-au-tac-druillet-hogarth-and-buscema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2014\/07\/25\/du-tac-au-tac-druillet-hogarth-and-buscema\/","title":{"rendered":"Du Tac au Tac: Druillet, Hogarth and Buscema"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I thought I was done with Druillet for this week but no, there’s more. I hadn’t come across Du Tac au Tac<\/em> before, a French TV show from the early 70s in which three (sometimes four) different comic artists are given a total of 15 minutes to improvise a drawing on a single board. The list of contributors is a who’s who of comic talent from France, Belgium, America and elsewhere. French TV site Ina.fr<\/a> (which is pay-to-view) has 130 episodes in their archive, many of which have found their way onto YouTube. Druillet was a regular contributor, as was Moebius.<\/p>\n

I’ve singled out this episode from 1972<\/a> for the astonishing conjunction of Druillet with Burne Hogarth, two artists with a considerable influence on my own comics work. Without the example of Heavy Metal<\/em> magazine in general, and Druillet in particular, I might not have bothered trying to adapt Lovecraft’s stories into comics in the 1980s; at one point I was prepared to put together a book of stories-plus-illustrations along the lines of Berni Wrightson’s Frankenstein<\/em>. Burne Hogarth, meanwhile, casts a Tarzan-shaped shadow over the darker shadows of the Reverbstorm<\/em><\/a> series, his work being quoted throughout, especially in the appropriation of the bizarre and sinister Ononoes from the Tarzan<\/em> Sunday strips. The third artist present, John Buscema, is notable if only for representing the comics creation that I like the least: the over-muscled, flat-groined, stupidly-costumed, always-fighting, corporate superhero. As it is, Buscema doesn’t fare too well in this exchange, sketching a half-hearted Silver Surfer while Hogarth (who was left-handed; don’t think I knew that) draws a profile of Tarzan in pastels, and Druillet works furiously with markers to create a typical melange of bat-winged demon, alien glyph and screaming head. I’ve not watched any of the other episodes yet but for those interested there are two channels of the things here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Sorcerer: Druillet and Friedkin<\/a>
\n\u2022 \u00d4 Sidarta: a film about Philippe Druillet<\/a>
\n\u2022 Lovecraft: D\u00e9mons et Merveilles<\/a>
\n\u2022 Heavy Metal, October 1979: the Lovecraft special<\/a>
\n\u2022 Philippe Druillet album covers<\/a>
\n\u2022 Druillet\u2019s vampires<\/a>
\n\u2022 Salammb\u00f4 illustrated<\/a>
\n\u2022 Druillet meets Hodgson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought I was done with Druillet for this week but no, there’s more. I hadn’t come across Du Tac au Tac before, a French TV show from the early 70s in which three (sometimes four) different comic artists are given a total of 15 minutes to improvise a drawing on a single board. The … Continue reading “Du Tac au Tac: Druillet, Hogarth and Buscema”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,9,19],"tags":[1747,727,6287,863,728,3117,3616],"class_list":["post-15452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-television","tag-berni-wrightson","tag-burne-hogarth","tag-john-buscema","tag-philippe-druillet","tag-reverbstorm","tag-salammbo","tag-tarzan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-41e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}