" I had only one worry and that was to stay alive."
Roland Topor is a French illustrator, designer, painter, writer, poet, director, songwriter, actor, and filmmaker. In 1962, with Fernando Arrabal and Alexandro Jodorowsky, he was one of the creators of the Panic movement, a sort of extension of Dadaism. His illustrations tinged with humor and surrealism appeared later in Liberation, Elle, The New York Times, and Die Zeit, but never to speak of current events or the spectacular. His drawings reveal the sordid and the absurd hidden behind the veil of the banal. At Roland Topor, the gravity of a situation does not preclude the lightness of the response. His transgression, his pen, and his style do not wave brutality like a banner or freedom like an absolute.