Serge Le Tendre (born 1 December 1946) is a French comics writer known from his collaborations with

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and TaDuc. He wrote a number of series together with Rodolphe.

Biography

Serge Le Tendre was born in 1946 in

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, near Paris, in France. When he was 16, he started working as an assistant-accountant but two years later he started following the comics lessons at the university, delivered by artists and scholars like

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, and

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. Fellow students included Régis Loisel and

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. By 1974, he was writing short comics stories for artists like

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and Dominique Hé, which appeared in and other magazines. In 1975 he created with Loisel, which first appeared in ; it was restarted in in 1982 and appeared in album format from the next year onwards. In 1984 he co-created the first two albums of for

Bibliography

The years given are for the album publications, not for magazine prepublications. All works in French unless otherwise noted. *''Chinaman'' (1997-2007), 9 parts, with TaDuc (published in English by Europe Comics) * (1993), 1 part, with Rodolphe and

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* (1987), 1 part, with

* (1985-1989), 3 parts, with Christian Rossi * (1996-2002), 2 parts, with Christian Rossi * (2012-2015), 4 parts, with

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*''White Claw'' (2013-2015), 3 parts, with TaDuc * (2000-), 3 parts, with Servain * (2015), 1 part, with Guillaume Sorel * (1985), 2 parts with

and

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* (1993-1995), 4 parts, with Dieter and Jean-Denis Pendanx * (2004-2012), 5 parts, with Franck Biancarelli *''Mission Vietnam'' (2003), 1 part, with Patrick Jusseaume and Jean-Charles Kraehn *''Mister George'' (2003), 2 parts, with Rodolphe and

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* (1992), 1 part, with

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* (2011-2012), 2 parts, with Laurent Gnoni * (1991-1994), 4 parts, with Pascale Rey (originally in Spanish) *''The Bleiberg Project'' (2017-), 3 parts, with Frédéric Peynet *'' The Quest for the Time Bird'' (1983-2017), 9 parts, with

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and Vincent Mallié * (1987-1997), 7 parts, with Rodolphe and Jean-Luc Serrano * (1985), 1 part, with Fabien Lacaf *''Terminus 1'' (2016), 2 parts, with Jean-Michel Ponzio * (2001), 2 parts, with Christian Rossi * (2014-2015), 2 parts, with Frédéric Peynet * (1987-1996), 5 parts, with Emiliano Simeoni and TaDuc

Awards

*1985: won the Award of the Public at the for *1986: won the Lucien award at the Angoulême festival for *1986: Prix Yellow-Kid for best foreign artist *1999:

Angoulême International Comics Festival Prix Jeunesse 9–12 ans The Prix Jeunesse 9–12 ans is awarded to comics authors at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. It rewards the best album for a 9 to 12 years old targeted public. The award started in 1981 as the "Alfred enfant", without the distinction ...

for *2002: nominated for the

Angoulême 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 *2002: Prix Bob Morane for *2004: nominated for the

Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize Awarded by the Audience This Prize Awarded by the Audience - Cultura is awarded to comics authors at the Angoulême International Comics Festival since 1989. The prize was known as ''Alph-Art du public'' from 1989-2003, the ''Prix du public'' from 2004-2006, in 2008 and ...

for

Notes

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