[5] He then moved to France, and began publishing comics in Métal hurlant, Circus, Heavy Metal,[7][2] as well as the educational magazines J'Ai Lu, Fiction, and Galaxie.
[4] Earlier in 1976, a critic from the same paper had negatively described his work in Circus, calling him "promising but long-winded" with an "annoying cosmic bucolicism", and that it was less funny than usual.
[11] He named Wallace Woody, Norman Rockwell, N. C. Wyeth, Inácio Justo, Jayme Cortez, Philippe Druillet, Caza, Richard Corben, and Winslow Homer as inspirations.
[10] McCulloch described Psychorock as "a work that couldn't exist in quite this way at any other time, certainly not in English-translated form in an ostensibly mainstream comics outlet", calling its illustrations both funny and eerie.
He noted its depiction of aliens, as well as "giant-breasted women and long-haired hippie dudes [...] lounging bare in floating space gardens.
[14][15] This comic focuses on a group of UFO believers who are taken away by a flying saucer before a great cataclysm destroys the earth.
[14] After the comic came out, the religious group the Order of the Solar Temple bought hundreds of copies and distributed it within the movement as recommended reading.
[15][17] Discussing it in the aftermath of the Solar Temple suicides, the Swiss magazine L'Illustré said it took on a "particular resonance" and was "fiercely premonitory" in light of the OTS's interest in it.
[14] Pacifique Sud is part of the Vic Voyage [fr] series, which focuses on the titular protagonist, a "super boatman".
According to Guillaume Molle, the story "gave a voice" to the Polynesian natives reflecting on the impact of Christian missionaries to their traditional religion practice, despite the sci-fi narrative.
[18][9] The book has Vic Voyage meet advanced spirits while accompanying rich tourists to Pacific Islands, whereupon he travels into an underwater temple and receives a prophecy for the Earth.
[9] The Journal de Nyon called it "an apotheosis of mind-blowing kitsch" with little depth instead of symbolism, comparing it to a bad American TV show.
[12][4] The book focuses on a group of adventurers, including Vic Voyage, who visit the Xingu Indigenous Park, encountering the problems they face such as land disputes and invasions.
[12] 24 heures's Thierry Mayer positively reviewed it, calling it a "veritable manifesto in the form of a hymn to the Amazonian Indians" and praising its illustrations and its providing of "food for thought" to the reader.
[17][5] He moved to Moʻorea in French Polynesia in 1982,[20][3] in what the Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo described as a "search of the hippie dream"; he stated he "got used to living barefoot.
[5] He said that while he liked moving to different places and discovering new cultures, he disliked the cold of Europe and the "gray and sad view" of life he perceived Europeans as having.