B.D. Ecrivains

Over a dozen issues from 1989 to 1992, Belgian publisher Lefrancq’s B.D. Ecrivains series brought literary classics to comics form, with artist and writer Al Severin adapting the science fiction of H. G. Wells into sequential art. This short-lived but ambitious project gave a European comics treatment to celebrated authors, offering a distinctive window into how 20th-century literature was reimagined for the bande dessinée audience.