''Andreas'', pen name for Andreas Martens, born January 3, 1951, in Weißenfels (

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). Martens studied in Düsseldorf at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the St. Luc comics school in Belgium, assisting Eddy Paape on Udolfo, before relocating to France. He made his debut in the magazines (À suivre),

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and Heavy Metal. In 2001 he won de Prix Bonnet d’âne at the comic festival

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(France) for his entire oeuvre. This includes that he may draw the poster for the next festival. His genre series include Arq, Cromwell Stone, Cyrrus,

Rork {{short description, Graphic novel ''Rork'' is a series of eight graphic novels by German comic author Andreas. It is also the name of the protagonist of the series. The character Rork is a white-haired "wizard" from another dimension who solves s ...

and its spin-off, Capricorne, as well as a number of single works such as La Caverne du Souvenir (The Cave of Memory), Coutoo, Dérives (Adrift), Aztèques, and Révélations Posthumes (Posthumous Revelations).

Comic books by Andreas

Cromwell Stone

# Cromwell Stone (1986) # Le retour de Cromwell Stone (1994) # Le testament de Cromwell Stone (2004)

Cyrrus

# Cyrrus (1984) # Mil (1987)

Capricorne

:1. L'Objet (1996) :2. Electricité (1996) :3. Deliah (1997) :4. Le cube numérique (1998) :5. Le secret (1999) :6. Attaque (2001) :7. Le Dragon bleu (2002) :8. Tunnel (2003) :9. Le passage (2004) :10. Les Chinois (2005) :11. Patrick (2006) :12. --No Title-- (2007) :13. Rêve en cage (2008) :14. L'Operation (2009) :15. New York (2011) :16. Vu de près (2012) :17. Les Cavaliers (2013) :18. Zarkan (2014) :19. Terminus (2015) :20. Maître (2017)

Rork

:0. Les fantômes (2012) :1. Fragments (1984) :2. Passages (1983) :3. Le cimetière de cathédrales (1988) :4. Lumière d'étoile (1988) :5. Capricorne (1990) :6. Descente (1992) :7. Retour (1993) :8. Les oubliés (2002)

Arq

:1. Ailleurs (1997) :2. Mémoires 1 (1998) :3. Mémoires 2 (1999) :4. Racken (2000) :5. White Dust (2001) :6. Réveil (2002) :7. Dorro Zengu (2003) :8. Retrouvailles (2005) :9. Feu Croisé (2006) :10. Tehos (2007) :11. Maître noir (2008) :12. Mission (2009) :13. Détectives (2010) :14. Intrus (2011) :15. Lune (2012) :16. Rêves 1(2013) :17. Rêves 2 (2014) :18. Ici (2015)

Mobilis

(With

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) # Heurts (2000) () # Seconde Chance (2001) () # Manipulations minutieuses (2002) ()

Books about Andreas

# Yves Lacroix et Philippe Sohet (dir.), Andreas. Une Monographie, Mosquito, 1997 # Yves Lacroix et Philippe Sohet, L'Ambition narrative. Parcours dans l'œuvre d'Andreas, Éditions XYZ, 1999 ()

References

External links

Dossier of Andreas

1951 births German comics artists Living people People from Weißenfels German comics writers German male writers {{comics-creator-stub