An interview by Paul RHOADS and Damien DHONDT
Published in Slash #17 0ctober 1998.
(Translated from the
French by Patrick Dusoulier 8th August 2002)
Postface to
Maske: Thaery by Jacques Goimard
(1981)
(Translated from the
French by Patrick Dusoulier, Sept. 2002)
A
short story : "Seven
Exits from Bocz"
"The
Best of Jack Vance" Pocket
Books - 1976
Jack's
Houseboat
A Thesis
by Jerome Fenn Dutel
(Translated from the
French by Patrick Dusoulier)
Vance Interview in Locus, Nov 1984
Lyonesse
in E-Books
Aliens! Has Chubais Come To Make Jack Vance a Reality?
(Article in Pravda features Jack Vance)
The nightmare that Russians are experiencing now and will
experience in the future emerged in the fevered imagination of American
writers http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/89/356/9773_chubais.html
"...The author of the fiction was the American Jack Vance, who is
considered the most talented master of writing social utopias in the United
States. Several generations of American boys were brought up on his books. These
boys later became generals, diplomats and American advisers of the first Russian
president, Boris Yeltsin."

French
Comics editor Delcourt undertook to make an
adaptation of Tschaï novels in comics,
two volumes by book.The artist is Li-An and
the well known script writer Jean-David
Morvan. The sixth volume has been published in
September 2004. The preparation of the seventh has
already begun.
"For a long time now, I have considered Jack as the world's
greatest novelist. I discovered him in my youth, between two family moves,
and his characters seemed to talk directly to me. Like them, I find myself
once more in an unknown country, a foreigner to its people and customs. Their
solitude found echoes in my shyness, their thirst for action in my voracious
hunger for drawing. Ever since I started drawing comics, Tschai turned out to
be a faithful and steadfast road companion. I couldn't imagine drawing
anything else than dark and efficient heroes, vivid cities bustling with
life, or attractive yet untouchable damsels. And today, with the help of
the scriptwriter Jean-David Morgan, I can actually live my childhood
dreams..." Li-An
Moebius:
"....I
immensely
enjoy Jack
Vance's
novels, which
are not too
far away from
being westerns
in space.
They
often take the
reader through
vast, majestic
landscapes,
even deserts,
inhabited by
isolated,
human
settlements,
which have
developed
along
idiosyncratic
lines, very
much like
western
societies."
I found on the web this painting
illustrating a Rip Van Winkle book, don't you
recognize the pipe smoker ?

A
last one and we go, that's all folks !
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