Patrice Killoffer, better known simply as Killoffer (born 16 June 1966), is a writer and artist of

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. He was co-founder of the independent comics publisher

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 1990, and has been a part of

Oubapo Oubapo (, short for french: Ouvroir de bande dessinée potentielle; roughly translated: ''"workshop of potential comic book art"'') is a comics movement which believes in the use of formal constraints to push the boundaries of the medium. OuBaPo i ...

since its creation in 1992.

Career

Patrice Killoffer studied at the School for Applied Arts Duperré in

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in the 1980s. His teachers included comics authors

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and

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, who influenced him in his early works. He created his first pages in 1981, during his studies. In 1987, he made the first issue of the magazine ''Pas un seul'' with Jean-Yves Duhoo. In the following years, he published in the magazines ''Globof'', ''Lynx'', and ''Labo'', which was published by

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. Since 1990, he publishes regularly in ''

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'', the magazine of publisher ''L'Association'', which later published three of his albums. More recently, he has published in the magazine '' Psikopat'' and he produces illustrations for the newspapers ''

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'' and ''

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'', and writes a column for '' La Vie''. In 2000, he was one of three artists responsible for the carnaval at Saint-Denis. Since 2006, he is the illustrator of the books of ''

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'', a classic French series of youth literature. Killoffer also created four stamps for the

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in 2006, making him the first foreign artist to design Swiss stamps. Some of his works have been translated into Dutch and German. ''676 Apparitions of Killoffer'' is his first work to be translated in English.Typocrat
Killoffer interview from December 2005

Influences

Apart from his teachers, Killoffer cites as his influences the Dutch artists Willem and

Joost Swarte Joost Swarte (born 24 December 1947 in Heemstede) is a Dutch cartoonist and graphic designer. He is best known for his ligne claire or ''clear line'' style of drawing, a term he coined. Comic series and characters by Swarte include ''Katoen en ...

. He also admires the work of

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. But despite these

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influences, he is considered as the most experimental author of L'Association.

Awards

* 2003: nominated for the Award for Best Comic Book at the

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, France * 2005: nominated for the Award for Best Artwork at the Angoulême International Comics Festival

Bibliography

* ''Killoffer en la matière'',

, 1992 * ''?'', Automne 67, 1994 * ''Billet SVP'', L'Association, 1995 * ''La Clef des champs'', L'Association, 1997 * ''La Bactérie'', Les 4 mers, 1998 * ''Viva Pâtàmâch !'' (art), with Jean-Louis Capron (text), Le Seuil, 2001 * ''Six cent soixante-seize apparitions de Killoffer'' ''(676 apparitions of Killoffer)'', L'Association, 2002, published in English in 2005 by Typocrat Press, published in Italien in 2017 by

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676 apparizioni di Killoffer
/ref> * '' Donjon Monsters'' part 9 : ''Les Profondeurs'' (art), with

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 ...

(text), Delcourt * ''Le Rock et si je ne m'abuse le roll'', L'Association, 2006 * ''Quand faut y aller'', L'Association, 2006 * ''Léon l'étron'',

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, 2007 * ''The Man Who Refused To Die'', with

Nicolas Ancion Nicolas Ancion is a Belgian writer born in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium, in 1971. His parents were professional puppeteers. Writer He writes fiction for adults, young adults and children and is the author of several theater plays and poetry collect ...

, Dis Voir, 2010

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