Author Biography
Nicolas Labarre is a professor in American Studies at University Bordeaux Montaigne, France, where he teaches US political institutions, comics and video games. His research focuses mostly on comics, with a particular interest in issues of adaptations, genres and transnational circulations. In addition to several pieces of comics as scholarship, he is the author of Heavy Metal, l’autre Métal Hurlant (PUB, 2017), a transnational history of Heavy Metal magazine, of Understanding Genres in Comics (Palgrave, 2020) and of Moebius (University Press of Mississippi, 2025), a critical biography of Jean Giraud/Moebius.
