Le travail d’Henri Lievens (1920 – 2000) est bien connu par tous les lecteurs fébriles amateurs d’histoires fantastiques puisqu’il a principalement travaillé pour les éditions Marabout pour lesquelles il a illustré une tonne d’ouvrages fantastiques ou SF et reprenant la suite de Joubert pour les couvertures de Bob Morane.
Je trouve son travail très…belge. Un fantastique basé sur l’ambiance, poisseux, étrange et quelque peu surréaliste. Des créatures molles et visqueuses. On a vraiment envie de lire les livres dont il illustre les couvertures.
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Surprenant que tu n’aies pas déjà fait de billet sur lui, il fait partie de ceux dont j’achèterais le livre pour sa couv, du moins pour les fantastiques Marabout.
Pour les Bob Morane aussi les couvs de Joubert étaient attractives mais le contenu pas toujours à la hauteur.
Concernant la couv des ”crapauds de la mort” c’est Joubert qui en est l’auteur d’origine, là les personnages et quelques détails ont été modifiés reste à savoir si c’est Lievens qui est intervenu ;
mais on ne peut pas dire que ce Bob soit bien campé.
La couv de Joubert signée >
J’ai lu en effet lu qu’il avait repris des couvertures de Joubert pour changer la tête de Morane qui devait prendre celle de Claude Titre qui l’a interprété. Les couvertures ont des similitudes mais sont assez différentes pour que je la laisse.
Et j’ai tellement de retard dans mes billets qu’il n’est pas étonnant qu’il manque de ”grands classiques”.
Les promesses des titres épousent celles des couvertures !..
Je connaissais cet admirable illustrateur, dont l’influence semble avoir été forte (ne serait ce que chez les auteurs de bd comme Vance),seulement à travers Jean Ray pour ”La cité de l’indicible peur”…
(Je suis dans une période très livre de poche…)
Rita Scalabrini, découverte hier(c’est de la littérature acadienne)par exemple.
Lievens a réalisé les couvertures des BD Morane dessinées par Attanasio. J’ignore si Vance s’en est inspiré.
Un artiste unique, bien qu’ayant horreur de la littérature horreur/fantastique je me suis laissé aller dans ma jeunesse à acheter des *marabout* rien que pour la couverture !
On ne peut pas TOUT détester en fantastique, quand même. Si ?
Non, bien sur, j’exagère un peu mais malheureusement (pour moi) de nos jours ‘fantastique’ ne veut plus dire que ‘horreur’ ou ‘angoisse’, ce n’est pas toujours évident dans le texte par contre c’est éclatant dans les illustrations – mais je sais que c’est généralement très apprécié. (vu le succès de Stephen King par exemple)
Ce n’est pas nouveau, Stephen King :-) Et dans la collection Marabout, c’était beaucoup de textes classiques.
Le fantastique s’immisce partout…chez Dickens (”les grandes espérances ”,”histoires de fantômes ”…et même ces ”contes de Noël ”)il traverse le récit…
Le genre (littérature dite western, dite roman policier etc)est toujours une classification contestable…
Lievens eut pu donner dans l’affiche cinéma !..
C’est vrai qu’il aurait pu faire dans la Hammer ou le gallio.