Léo Quievreux (born 1971) is a French author and illustrator of

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s, and founder of publisher Éditions Gotoproductions. His moniker as a musician is Pik.

Early life and education

Quievreux was born in

Mulhouse Mulhouse (; Alsatian language, Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning ''Mill (grinding), mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin Departments of France, department, in the Grand Est Regions of France, region, eastern France, close to the France–Switzerl ...

in the

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

region of France, in 1971. He studied

applied arts The applied arts are all the arts that apply design and decoration to everyday and essentially practical objects in order to make them aesthetically pleasing."Applied art" in ''The Oxford Dictionary of Art''. Online edition. Oxford Univers ...

in at

École Estienne L'école Estienne is the traditional name of the l'École supérieure des arts et industries graphiques (ESAIG) (Graduate School of Arts and Printing Industry). It is located at 18, Boulevard Auguste-Blanqui in the 13th arrondissement of Pari ...

and École Duperré in Paris, from 1990 to 1993.

Career

Quievreux was a key artist in the French alternative comic book scene of the 1990s, known as "la nouvelle bande dessinée", and founded and ran his own publication house, Gotoproduction, which he ran along with Jean Kristau and Anne-Fred Maurer from 1991 to 2000 or 2001, and which published over 60 books. Since 1997, his drawings have been regularly published by several well-known publishers of comic books:

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

publisher

Le Dernier Cri Le Dernier Cri is a Marseille based publishing house focused on publishing books, prints, silkscreens, posters and original art of visual artists that produce underground art. Pakito Bolino and Caroline Sury started the organisation in 1992. Bes ...

;

L'Association L'Association is a French publishing house located in Paris which publishes comic books. It was founded in May 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu, Lewis Trondheim, David B., Mattt Konture, Patrice Killoffer, Stanislas, and Mokeït. L'Association i ...

in Paris, and

Lyons Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of th ...

-based Arbitraire (since its establishment in 2005); and, since 2015, by Éditions Matière in Montreuil. His work has been published in many French as well as international publications, such as ''

Libération ''Libération'' (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far-left of France's ...

'', ''

Le Monde ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...

'', '' Enjeux les Échos'', '' La Revue Dessinée'', ''Crachoir'', ''Strapazin'' (Switzerland), ''Kus!'' (Latvia), ''Stripburger'' (Slovenia), ''Good Stuff'', ''Erogotoshitashi'', ''Today in English'', and many others. In March 2022, Quiévreux's story "Aquarium" was published in the third issue of revived iconic

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series ''Métal Hurlant''. he lives in Pau.

Music

In 1995 he formed a

musical duo A musical ensemble, also known as a music group or musical group, is a group of people who perform instrumental and/or vocal music, with the ensemble typically known by a distinct name. Some music ensembles consist solely of instrumentalists, ...

with the artist Mika Pusse, called Pikpus, and since then has undertaken various experimental music projects under the name Pik. He played with the group Dragibus from 1998 to 2003, touring Japan in 2000 and 2003.

Selected works

''Immersion''

Three volumes of the ''Immersion'' series had been published by June 2021, all in

black and white Black-and-white (B&W or B/W) images combine black and white in a continuous spectrum, producing a range of shades of grey. Media The history of various visual media began with black and white, and as technology improved, altered to color. ...

. *''Le programme immersion'' (Éditions Matière, September 2015) ( *''Immersion'' (Éditions Matière, November 2018) *''Spécimens '' (Éditions Matière, May 2021) ''The Immersion Program'' was published in English by Floating World Comics in 2019. The series is

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

, in which a frightening new technology that steals memories is used as a weapon by a sinister organisation called "The Agency". Quievreux said that the film ''

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy ''Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'' is a 1974 spy novel by British author John le Carré. It follows the endeavours of taciturn, aging spymaster George Smiley to uncover a Soviet mole in the British Secret Intelligence Service. The novel has receive ...

'' (''La Taupe'' in French) by

Tomas Alfredson Hans Christian Tomas Alfredson (born 1 April 1965) is a Swedish film director who is best known internationally for directing the 2008 vampire film '' Let the Right One In'' and 2011 espionage film '' Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy''. Alfredson has ...

inspired him to write a noir novel, along the lines of

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Other works

Quievreux has published over 20 works in many countries. Other works by him include: *''La Mue'' (with Tanguy Ferrand), 2007 *''La Prothèse HRZ'', 2008 *''Agents dormants'',

, 2008 *''Sphynx song'' (with J. M. Bertoyas), L'Association, 2012 *''Le Mystère HB. Une Histoire du 36 Quai des Orfèvres'' (with Alain Gillot, Pierre Dragon & Claude Cancès), 2012) *''Cocaine 14'', 2014 *''Climat, la guerre de l'ombre'', illustrations for a book by

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, MEP, 2014 *''Anyone 40'', 2016, "a series of experimental stories in comic book form" *''Ex Cop'', 2018 *''Fake'', 2020 (published by Bellezza Infinita in Spain)

Exhibitions

Quevreux's work has been shown in exhibitions all over Europe, including: *Librairie Un Regard Moderne, Paris, 2005 *Galerie Kurt Im Hirsch,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

, 2006 *Fumetto Festival,

Lucerne, Switzerland , neighboring_municipalities= Adligenswil, Ebikon, Emmen, Horw, Kriens, Malters, Meggen, Neuenkirch Lucerne ( , ; High Alemannic: ''Lozärn'') or Luzern ()Other languages: gsw, Lozärn, label=Lucerne German; it, Lucerna ; rm, Lucerna . is a ...

, 2007 *Le Bal des Ardents,

, 2009 *Festival Ligatura, Poznan, Poland, 2010 *Survival Kit Festival,

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

, Latvia, 2011 * Festival Monstre,

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...

, Switzerland, 2016 *Rencontres du 9ème Art,

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

, France, 2016 *Galerie Papiers Gras, Geneva, 2017/2018

References

External links

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