Nicolas de Crécy (born 29 September 1966) is a French artist, cartoonist, and comic book writer. He was a co-author of ''Léon la Came'', a work that won the
Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album in 1998.
Career
Crécy was born in
Lyon
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 t ...
, France, and graduated from the Angoulême School of Art in 1987. His first work was a comics adaptation of the
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
novel
Bug-Jargal
''Bug-Jargal'' is a novel by the French writer Victor Hugo. First published in 1826, it is a reworked version of an earlier short story of the same name published in the Hugo brothers' magazine ''Le Conservateur littéraire'' in 1820. The novel fol ...
, published in 1989 in collaboration with
Sylvain Chomet,
whom he had met in Angoulême.
He worked at the
Walt Disney Animation France
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studio in
Montreuil for two years, and illustrated the comic book ''Foligatto'' (1991), which was based on a script by Alexios Tjoyas. Crécy collaborated again with Chomet for the ''Léon la Came'' trilogy, which received the
Angoulême Prize for Best Album and further established Crécy's reputation for unusual characters and sombre colouring choices.
[ His later works include ''Monsieur Fruit'' (1995–96), a humorous black-and-white series; ''Période Glaciaire'' (2007), which was commissioned by the Louvre museum; and ''Salvatore'' (2011), which was nominated for an ]Eisner Award
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.[
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Awards
* 1991: Prize for the Lion, Belgian Center for Comics (for ''Foligatto'')
* 1996: Grand Prix at the festival of Sierre, Switzerland
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* 1998: Prize for Best Album, Angoulême International Comics Festival (for the second volume of ''Léon la Came'')
References
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French comics writers
Artists from Lyon
1966 births
Living people