It came out at the right time when Star Wars and the rest of the sci-fi genre was in high demand, but it did things and went places that no one else dared, flaunting taboos like sex and drugs while still being funny and entertaining. Metal Hurlant was stream-of-consciousness, erotic, violent, grotesque, and above all gorgeous. Metal Hurlant was published by an organization fronted by artists Philippe Druillet and Jean Guraud (aka Moebius), writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet, and Bernard Farkas. It was published by the same company responsible for the National Lampoon and compiled primarily from the contents of the French magazine Metal Hurlant (“Howling Metal”), which had already been going for several years and had become a phenomenon in Europe. ![]() The original Heavy Metal magazine debuted in the US in the spring of 1977. ![]() Damn, man, that’s pretty frickin’ awesome!
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