Any of you geeks (I mean that in a good way 
, you are my peoples) familiar with this:
The French comic that may have influenced 'Star Wars'
Director George Lucas has cited many, many influences for his legendary Star Wars series, from Japanese director Akira Kurosawa to Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth. But a little-known influence may have come from the French comic book series, Valerian and Laureline illustrated by Jean-Claude Mézières.
(There is a radio interview that the article was based on included in the link.)
A scene from the French comic "Valerian and Laureline."
Credit:
Jean-Claude Mézières and Pierre Christin
Valerian and Laureline are two space-temporal agents AKA “time cops” who travel between different epochs and planets getting into capers. “You could almost consider it a cross between 'Star Wars' and 'Doctor Who,'” says John Wenz, who wrote about the correlations between Valerian and Laureline and Star Wars for Popular Mechanics.
Jean-Claude Mézières began illustrating the series in 1967, nearly a decade before the first Star Wars movie came out, but the visual parallels between the two series are striking.
There’s a scene where Valerians is encased in a hard resin in much the same pose that Han Solo takes during Empire Strikes Back when he’s encased by Lord Vader in carbonite.
, you are my peoples) familiar with this:The French comic that may have influenced 'Star Wars'
Director George Lucas has cited many, many influences for his legendary Star Wars series, from Japanese director Akira Kurosawa to Joseph Campbell’s Monomyth. But a little-known influence may have come from the French comic book series, Valerian and Laureline illustrated by Jean-Claude Mézières.
(There is a radio interview that the article was based on included in the link.)
A scene from the French comic "Valerian and Laureline."
Credit:
Jean-Claude Mézières and Pierre Christin
Valerian and Laureline are two space-temporal agents AKA “time cops” who travel between different epochs and planets getting into capers. “You could almost consider it a cross between 'Star Wars' and 'Doctor Who,'” says John Wenz, who wrote about the correlations between Valerian and Laureline and Star Wars for Popular Mechanics.
Jean-Claude Mézières began illustrating the series in 1967, nearly a decade before the first Star Wars movie came out, but the visual parallels between the two series are striking.
There’s a scene where Valerians is encased in a hard resin in much the same pose that Han Solo takes during Empire Strikes Back when he’s encased by Lord Vader in carbonite.
