Nicolas Barral

Nicolas Barral is a French comic book artist, who works both in the realistic as well as the humorous drawing style. Many of his comics deal with detective stories, though with an ironic edge. Together with Pierre Veys he made several parody comics, among them the 'Sherlock Holmes' pastiche 'Baker Street' (1999-2008) and 'Les Aventures de Philip et Francis' (2005), which spoofs Edgar P. Jacobs' 'Blake and Mortimer'. Barral is additionally notable as the third artist to continue the 'Nestor Burma' comic series by Jacques Tardi, based on the detective novels of the same name by Léo Mallet.…Comiclopedia