Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Murdered Cartoonist Illustrated French Dungeons & Dragons Game


The French RPG site Le Grog reported that murdered Charlie Hebdo cartoonist Tignous (Bernard Verlhac) was a veteran games illustrator. Among other credits including Laelith for Casus Belli magazine and MEGA for Strategy Games magazine, he appears to have been the illustrator for the mid-1980's TSR board game Le Sourire Du Dragon, based on the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon series. The link to the board game was made by me, and I do not read French, so any additions or corrections to this information would be welcome.


UPDATE (10:00 PM CST): It looks like the box cover was based on a promotional poster by the American artist Bill Sienkiewicz. See Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon Encyclopedia. Thus, Tignous did the board (and the cards, I assume, though they were presumably based on the original cartoon images).

3 comments:

  1. RPGGeek has these listings for him:
    http://rpggeek.com/rpgartist/48395/bernard-verlhac
    http://rpggeek.com/rpgartist/45602/tignous
    http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgameartist/45602/tignous

    Nothing listed is in English.

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  2. He also made illustrations for the game RĂªves de Dragons ("The Dream Ourobouros" in the English version)

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