Original cover of Métal Hurlant no 58, published in December 1980 – an historic issue in which John Difool and Deepo, his concrete seagull, make their first appearance in “Night at the Red Ring”, the first chapter of L’Incal Noir (The Black Incal). This new hero with his long red hair, whom Jodorowsky and Moebius had plucked straight from their imagination, was to grace the pages of the magazine for the first ten issues of the following year. There were eleven chapters in all, with between six and eleven pages each depending on the month, the colouring for which was entrusted to a young illustrator who was just starting to make a name for himself in the magazine: Yves Chaland.John Difool was thus to join the eternal ranks of the Moebius pan-theon, along with the likes of Arzach and Major Fatal, and the first volume in the saga saw the light of day, encompassing in one fell swoop all the material that would go to make up the two albums issued in 1981 and 1982.In 2011, Les Humanoïdes associés re-used a close-up of this cover for the back cover of Moebius’s re-editions L’Incal Noir and L’Incal Lumière (Luminous Incal).