Couverture de roman pour Jean-Marc Lofficier et Black Coat Press.

"Pirates! Mummies! Cannibals! Intelligent Apes! Samurais! Cossacks! And even Saturnians! Meet Saturnin Farandoul and his companions, the fearless Mandibul and the extravagant Tournesol , as they travel the Earth and beyond in a series of wild and picaresque adventures!

Of all the authors who followed in the footsteps of Jules Verne, the most important was Albert Robida (1848-1926), a writer-artist who also became the founding father of science fiction illustration.

Robida wrote and illustrated The Adventures of Saturnin Farandoul (1879), a mammoth, riotous and rollicking homage to Verne in which the indomitable Farandoul, raised by apes on a Pacific Island, teams up with Captain Nemo to conquer Australia, battles with Phileas Fogg in the American Civil War, meets Hector Servadac in orbit around Saturn, steals a white elephant from Michel Strogoff in Siberia and challenges Captain Hatteras at the North Pole...""

La riche biographie de l'auteur est sur Wikipedia et il existe aussi un passionnant site des "Amis de Robida" :

"Génie du dessin fantastique et de l'illustration, auteur, graveur, aquarelliste et peintre, doué d'un étonnant sens du futur, écologiste avant l'heure, affichiste, Albert Robida nous laisse une oeuvre exceptionnelle : 60 000 dessins, 200 livres illustrés..."