Journalist, pianist, writer, successful screenwriter of Valérian, the science fiction comic strip that inspired George Lucas’ Star Wars, Pierre Christin died this Thursday, at the age of 86.
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Published on 10/3/2024 at 5:22 p.m.
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Pierre Christin was born in Paris, while Hitler was annexing Austria. He will grow up torn between the hope of a better world and the terror of nuclear apocalypse. As a student, he became passionate about news stories, which he devoured like “poor man’s literature”. On the benches of Sciences Po, he sought his way between the Maoists and the disciples of the deviationist Marxist Louis Althusser. In the 1960s, he played in jazz clubs and started out as a small-time reporter in the press, before dropping everything to explore the Far West, where he discovered the life of a cowboy on ranches, megacities, blues and science fiction.
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