Par mesure de silence

André Héléna. Fleuve Noir. 1965.

L'os et le chien

Jean Stuart. Spécial Police. Fleuve Noir. 1975.

Echec... et rapt

P. M. Perreaut. Spécial Police. Fleuve Noir. 1974.

La dalle aux maudits

Original painting by Michel Gourdon for "La dalle aux maudits" by G.J. Arnaud. Coll. Angoisse. Fleuve Noir. 1974.

Safari, sang et sexe

Serge Jacquemard. Fleuve Noir. Police. 1976.

Vallespi et les soucoupes volantes

André Lay. Fleuve Noir. Police. 1971.

Michel Gourdon - 1925-2011

A great artist and person, Michel Gourdon passed away. His art remains.

Alix Karol

Editions Fleuve Noir. 1977. Alix Karol (Patrice Dard). Cover by Gourdon.

Curée pour un caid défunt

Peter Randa. Fleuve Noir. 1968. Cover by Gourdon.

Tigris - Michel Gourdon

Collection Rex, Paris, ca. 1955.

Aventures et bagarres de "Johny Sopper"

Another great work by Michel Gourdon for Fleuve Noir. Paris, 1952.

Michel Gourdon - Postcard set

Young Aslan

Published by Les Editions du Simplon in 1954, here're 3 book covers drawn by Aslan. Note that the 1st one is signed under his real name, Gourdon. Few weeks later he left Gourdon to his brother Michel and began to sign as Aslan.

Michel Gourdon - (Yes, I know...)

Last but not least, (no, I'm joking, I'll always have stuff to post about Gourdon!), here are the covers for Frankenstein novels by Benoit Becker (pseudonym used by Guy Bechtel, Jean-Claude Carrière, Stéphan Jouravieff, José-André Lacour, granpa of José-Louis Bocquet, et Christiane Rochefort).

Michel Gourdon - Original paintings

Here are original paintings by Michel Gourdon, done for "Angoisse" book covers.

Maniac collection - Michel Gourdon

What we have here, sick boys and girls, is another great cover work by Deadlicious friend Michel Gourdon. Now going to his eighties, Michel draw these illustrations in 1988 for Patrick Siry and his Maniac collection. Only 8 titles were published.

Michel Gourdon - On the dark side of illustration

Michel Gourdon was born on November 20, 1925 in Bordeaux, South East of France. As student he attends the Art schools of Bordeaux from 1941 to 1945. One year later, in 46, he begins to work in Paris for cartoon industry.

In 1950, Armand De Caro creates the "Fleuve Noir", engages Michel Gourdon and entrusts almost all the collections to him to be illustrated, its preferred is Angoisse ( only the Anticipation series is by Brantonne, another draughtsman marking of this period ).

Michel Gourdon draws 3500 illustrations for the "Fleuve Noir" until 1978. His style of drawing and his technique with the gouache, will be driven out covers of this editor by photography. After Fleuve Noir, Gourdon continued to work for a lot of mags (included french TV mag. Télé 7 jours). While I was working as copy writer in ad agency (long time ago !) I asked him for some illustrations (I think it was for Yoplais). We became quite friends and kept in touch to this day. Hi Michel and cheers to Jeanine. Hoops, they don't use the internet.