Enki Bilal

Enes Bilal (born 1951) is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director. Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, to a Slovak mother and a Bosniak father who had been Tito's tailor, he moved to Paris at the age of 9. At age 14, he met René Goscinny and with his encouragement applied his talent to comics. He produced work for Goscinny's comics magazine Pilote in the 1970s, publishing his first story in 1972. In 1975, Bilal began working with script writer Pierre Christin. Bilal is best known for the Nikopol trilogy (1980–1992). The books have been adapted into a movie Immortal (2004).