# Lone Sloane

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**Lone Sloane** is a [science fiction](/source/Science_fiction) comics character created in 1966 by the [French](/source/French_comics) cartoonist [Philippe Druillet](/source/Philippe_Druillet).

## Publication history

Lone Sloane first appeared in Druillet's own debut, *Mystère des Abîmes*, published in 1966. Other stories were published in the [Franco-Belgian comics](/source/Franco-Belgian_comics) magazine *[Pilote](/source/Pilote)* from February 1970 to April 1971. The series was subsequently revamped by the author for *[Metal Hurlant](/source/Metal_Hurlant)* magazine.

## Plot

Set 800 years after a catastrophic event called the "Great Fear", the stories feature Lone Sloane, who is caught by an entity called "He Who Seeks", after his space ship is destroyed. He is thrown into a different dimension, where he becomes a space rogue and freebooter with strange powers, and finds himself caught in an intergalactic struggle between space pirates, gigantic robots, dark gods, and other-dimensional entities. Very similar to [Silver Surfer](/source/Silver_Surfer) and [Galactus](/source/Galactus), or [Ulysses](/source/Odysseus) and the [Greek gods](/source/Greek_mythology), he is compelled to wander in a universe that is alien to him. It is also known for the quasi-[baroque](/source/Baroque) style of Druillet's artwork, which features [Lovecraftian](/source/H.P._Lovecraft) space nightmares mixed with [Escherian](/source/M.C._Escher) mathematically inspired worlds.

## Publications

- *Le Mystère des Abîmes* ("The Mystery of the Abyss", 1966)
- *Le Trone du Dieu Noir* ("The Throne of the Black God"; in *[Pilote](/source/Pilote)* magazine #538, 1970)
- *Les Iles du Vent Sauvage* ("The Isle of the Doom Wind"; in *Pilote* #553, 1970)
- *Rose* (in *Pilote* N°562, 1970)
- *Torquedara Varenkor: Le Pont sur les Etoiles* ("The Bridge over the Stars"; in *Pilote* #569, 1970)
- *O Sidarta* (in *Pilote* #578, 1970)
- *Terra* (in *Pilote* #598, 1971)
- *Delirius* (written by [Jacques Lob](/source/Jacques_Lob); in *Pilote* #651-666, 1972)
- *Gail* (in *[Metal Hurlant](/source/Metal_Hurlant)* magazine #18-27, 1975-1976)
- *Salammbo* (in *[Metal Hurlant](/source/Metal_Hurlant)* magazine #48-54, 1980)
- *Salammbo 2: Carthago* (1982)
- *Salammbo 3: Matho* (1986)
- *Chaos* (2000)
- *Delirius 2* (2012, script by Lob, Jacques and Legrand, Benjamin)

## Translations

The first eight stories were translated into English by [Jean-Marc Lofficier](/source/Jean-Marc_Lofficier) and [Randy Lofficier](/source/Randy_Lofficier). They were first serialized in black and white in [Dark Horse](/source/Dark_Horse_Comics)'s *[Cheval Noir](/source/Cheval_Noir_(comics))* comics anthology, then published as graphic novels by [NBM Publishing](/source/NBM_Publishing). The rest of the stories have been translated into English by the magazine [*Heavy Metal*](/source/Heavy_Metal_(magazine)), some of them serialized in the magazine (*Gail* in 1977 and 1978, *Salammbo* in 1980 and 1981) and *Chaos* published as an album.

## References

- [Loan Sloane](http://www.bedetheque.com/serie-660-BD-Lone-Sloane.html) at Bedetheque (in French)

## External links

- [Lone Sloane](http://www.lofficier.com/lonesloane.htm) on the Lofficiers' site
- [Lone Sloane](http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/lonesloane.html) at Cool French Comics

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