'Le Lama Blanc'.
Georges Bess lived in Sweden from 1970 to 1987. There, he fulfilled his first artistic jobs under his own name or under the pseudonyms Tideli and Nisseman. He cooperated with the Swedish Mad Magazine, and from 1977 to 1987, he drew stories with 'The Phantom'. He additionally drew comics for Swedish magazines like Dante, Pelefant, Mika and Anderssonskans Kalle.
The Phantom - 'The Ghost Cliff' (1978).
In the early 1980s, Bess traveled to Tibet and was very impressed with the country. Together with scriptwriter Alejandro Jodorowsky, he launched a comic series about Tibet, called 'Le Lama Blanc'. Between 1988 and 1996, six books of 'Le Lama Blanc' were published by Les Humanoïdes Associés with great success. In addition, Bess and Jodorowsky made 'Les Jumeaux Magiques' for Le Journal de Mickey.
'Mika'.
Bess and Jodorowky continued their collaboration at Les Humanoïdes with 'Juan Solo' (1995-1999). They also revived Jodorowsky's first series, 'Anibal 5', drawn by Manuel Moro back in 1966. Meanwhile, Bess published, with the same editor, the black and white book 'Escondida' (1998), and illustrated the second book in the series of the French erotic masterpiece 'Aphrodite' by Pierre Louys (1999). With Layla Bess, he created two albums of 'Leela et Krishna' at the publishing house Carabas in 2000. In 2005, he began 'Pema Ling', another series about Tibet, at Dupuis. His artwork is influenced by Moebius.
Comic art by Georges Bess.