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Jean-Claude Claeys
was born in Paris
in 1951, and launched
his career as an
illustrator in the
1970s with a story
about a private
eye.
His brilliant work
from that time onward
has continued to
reflect the visual
and thematic influence
of film noir, with
femmes fatale and
cynical heroes who
live in an amoral
world of sex, seduction
and murder.
Claeys creates his
stunningly photo-realist
art from snap-shots
of models, meticulously
drawing the reference
images in pencil
before inking them
to complete the
final black and
white story panels.
Like many French
artists in the field
of graphic novels,
Claeys has been
published in Metal
Hurlant Magazine,
to which he contributed
the series called
'Lüger et Paix'
Claeys has illustrated
movie posters and
the cover art for
many issues of Hitchcock
Magazine and crime
novels by Neo Publishing.
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