The Studio Graton, or Studio Jean Graton is a drawing studio that helped French cartoonist
Jean Graton
Jean Graton (10 August 1923 – 21 January 2021) was a French comic book author and cartoonist. Graton created the famous character Michel Vaillant and the eponymous series in 1957.
Biography
Graton was born in Nantes, France, in 1923. He m ...
draw various comics series, among them the famous series
Michel Vaillant
''Michel Vaillant'' is a French car racing comics series created in 1957 by French cartoonist Jean Graton and published originally by Le Lombard. Later, Graton published the albums by himself when he founded Graton éditeur in 1982. Michel Vaill ...
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History
In 1962, Jean Graton hires an assistant, the young Christian Denayer, to help him with the drawing of the sets and cars and the colorization of the Michel Vaillant plates. After eight years of collaboration, Denayer left to work for Tibet and what was already the embryo of the Graton Studio was expanded to include Daniel Bouchez and Christian Lippens.
The studio was created by Jean Graton in the mid 1980s, contributing to several albums. It was made up of various drawers. In the 1990, a new generation of artists came, and the studio was in charge of all the drawings when Jean Graton withdrawn in 2003. It is now led by Philippe Graton, the son of Jean Graton, who has designed the scenarios of the series since the 1994.
Publications
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Michel Vaillant
''Michel Vaillant'' is a French car racing comics series created in 1957 by French cartoonist Jean Graton and published originally by Le Lombard. Later, Graton published the albums by himself when he founded Graton éditeur in 1982. Michel Vaill ...
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*''Les dossiers Michel vaillant''
List of current artists
*Christian Papazoglakis
*Nedzad Kamenica
*Robert Paquet
References
External links
Official website
Artist-run centres
Graton
Michel Vaillant
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