Métal Hurlant
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- Métal hurlant is French for "Screaming Metal", and is the French title for the Discovery Channel show Monster Garage.
Image:Metal Hurlant 1.jpg Métal Hurlant is the name of a French magazine of science fiction and horror comics, created in December 1974 by cartoonists Jean Giraud (better known as Mœbius), Bernard Farkas and Philippe Druillet together with journalist-writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet. It was published in the United States under the title Heavy Metal.
This first magazine started with three monthly periodicity and 68 pages, only 18 of which were in color. It housed famous Moebius and Druillet characters such as Arzach, Gail or Lone Sloane, but later it housed also collaboration from foreign cartoonist like Richard Corben. Other artists who worked for Metal Hurlant include Alejandro Jodorowsky, Enki Bilal, Philippe Caza, Alain Voss, Berni Wrightson and many others.
It became bi-monthly with N°7 and monthly with N°9. Apart from comics, the magazine contained articles about science fiction books and movies, as well as music and videogames. Metal Hurlant, emphasizing complex graphics, cinematic imagery and surreal storylines, was highly influential throughout the world as one of the first mature expression of "adult" comic book making. It ceased publication in July 1987, while the US version never halted publications.
Metal Hurlant began publishing again in July 2002 by Humanoids Publishing, with a French, English, Spanish and Portuguese version, under the French name. It is now a "two-headed", transatlantic (France-USA) magazine, lead by Fabrice Giger in Los Angeles. It publishes original short stories, sometimes related to existing or to be published comic books. Its aim is to discover young creators and promote the products from the publisher.