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Christophe Blain (born 10 August 1970) is a French comic book author.
Christophe Blain (born 10 August 1970) is a French comic book author.
Life and career
Blain was born inGennevilliers
Gennevilliers () is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, in the Hauts-de-Seine department of Île-de-France. It is located from the centre of Paris. In 2017, it had a population of 46,907.
History
On 9 April 1929, one-fifth of the ...
. He studied visual arts in Cherbourg
Cherbourg (; , , ), nrf, Chèrbourg, ) is a former commune and subprefecture located at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche. It was merged into the commune of Cherbourg-Octeville on 28 Feb ...
and began drawing comics during his military service, first published by Albin Michel Albin may refer to:
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in 1994. He subsequently worked as an illustrator for various magazines before returning to drawing comics, inspired by David B.
Pierre-François "David" Beauchard (; born 9 February 1959), also known by the pen name David B., is a French comic book artist and writer, and one of the founders of .
Biography
After studying advertising at the Duperré School of Applied Arts i ...
, Lewis Trondheim
Lewis Trondheim (born Laurent Chabosy, , on 11 December 1964), is a French cartoonist and one of the founders (in 1990) of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic ''La Mouche'' and Kaput and Zösky have been made into animat ...
and Joann Sfar
Joann Sfar (; born 28 August 1971) is a French comics artist, comic book creator, novelist, and film director.
Life and career
Sfar was born in Nice, the son of Lilou, a pop singer, who died when he was three, and André Sfar, a lawyer well know ...
. He created with David B. some stories that appeared in the magazine ''Lapin''.
He began collaborating with Trondheim and Sfar in 1999 for the ''Dungeon'' series album ''Dungeon: Early Years''. He began his most successful series to date, ''Isaac the Pirate'', in 2001. In the story, set in the 18th century, Isaac Sofer, a penniless painter, becomes a pirate when he accepts a commission involving a rather involuntary sea crossing to America. The subsequent series, ''Gus'', is a Western comic that humorously recounts episodes from the life of Gus, a mail robber. With its exaggerated drawings, the comic forms a link between the classics ''Lucky Luke
''Lucky Luke'' is a Western ''bande dessinée'' series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946. Morris wrote and drew the series single-handedly until 1955, after which he started collaborating with French writer René Goscinny. Their par ...
'' and ''Blueberry
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''.
His award-winning comic ''Quai d'Orsay'' (''Weapons of Mass Diplomacy'', in the English version) about the supposed daily routine at the French Foreign Ministry, was made into a film by Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier (25 April 1941 – 25 March 2021) was a French director, screenwriter, actor and producer.
Life and career
Tavernier was born in Lyon, France, the son of Geneviève (née Dumond) and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, s ...
in 2013.
In 2021 he drew the comic ''Le Monde sans fin'' (World Without End), about climate change, written by Jean-Marc Jancovici
Jean-Marc Jancovici (born 1962) is a French engineering consultant, energy and climate expert, professor, conference speaker, writer, and independent columnist. He is co-founder and associate at the Carbone 4 consultancy firm, and the founding p ...
.
Awards
In 2000, the book he drew, ''Les Ogres'' (written by David B.), was awarded the Prix international de la Ville de Genève pour la bande dessinée. In 2002, he received theAngoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album
The Prize for Best Album (''Prix du meilleur album''), also known as the ''Fauve d'Or'' ("Golden Wildcat"), is awarded to comics authors at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.
As is the customary practice in Wikipedia for listing awards ...
for ''Isaac the Pirate'' and again in 2013, together with Abel Lanzac, for the second volume of Quai d'Orsay: Chroniques diplomatiques. In 2009, ''Gus and his Gang'' was awarded the Harvey Award
The Harvey Awards are given for achievement in comic books. Named for writer-artist Harvey Kurtzman, the Harvey Awards were founded by Gary Groth in 1988, president of the publisher Fantagraphics, to be the successor to the Kirby Awards that were ...
for Best American Edition of Foreign Material.
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