Lone Sloane

Philippe Druillet’s Lone Sloane is a singular, visionary space opera that began in 2000 with Albin Michel, anchored entirely by the writer/artist’s own cosmic, psychedelic aesthetic. The series follows the lone, wandering protagonist through baroque, sprawling galaxies rendered in Druillet’s signature ornate, hallucinatory style. Though comprising just one issue, it stands as a potent distillation of Druillet’s decades-long mastery of the European science-fiction bande dessinée, a cult touchstone for its bombastic, painterly grandeur.