11 Facts About Enki Bilal

Enki Bilal was born on Enes Bilal; born 7 October 1951 and is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director.

Enki Bilal has no sense of belonging to any ethnic group and religion, nor is he obsessed with soil and roots.

Enki Bilal said in one interview: "I feel Bosnian by my father's origin, a Serb by my place of birth and a Croat by my relationship with a certain one to my childhood friends, not to mention my other Czech half, who I am inherited from mother".

Enki Bilal produced work for Goscinny's Franco-Belgian comics magazine Pilote in the 1970s, publishing his first story, Le Bol Maudit, in 1972.

In 1975, Enki Bilal began working with script writer Pierre Christin on a series of dark and surreal tales, resulting in the body of work titled Legendes d'Aujourd'hui.

In 1983, Enki Bilal was asked by film director Alain Resnais to collaborate on his film La vie est un roman, for which Enki Bilal provided painted images that were incorporated in the "medieval" episodes of the film.

Enki Bilal is best known for the Nikopol trilogy, which took more than a decade to complete.

In 2012, Enki Bilal was featured in a solo exhibition at The Louvre.

The exhibition was organized by Fabrice Douar, and featured a series of paintings of "Ghosts", done atop photographs that Enki Bilal took of the Louvre's collection.

From its start through the 1980s Enki Bilal was a frequent guest in American Heavy Metal magazine.

Many famous Enki Bilal comics made their English debut in this period of the magazine.