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Bruno Maïorana
Bruno Maïorana (born 23 December 1966) is a French cartoonist and illustrator who quit the comics industry in 2014, at the height of his popularity. Biography After high school Bruno Maïorana enrolled in the fine art school in Angoulême, where he met future collaborators Alain Ayroles and Thierry Leprévost, to major in comic art. However, Maïorana dropped-out before graduation to work as an illustrator at animation studio IDDH, where Ayroles, Jean-Luc Masbou and Leprévost would also work for a time. Maïorana's first graphic novel project, Garulfo, was based on Ayroles idea to turn a classic fairy tale on its head. Originally, Ayroles intended to illustrate the story himself, however, editors advised him to find someone to collaborate with as the draft boards he had presented to them did not meet approval. After Ayroles had approached Maïorana for his collaboration, Guy Delcourt (editor) agreed to publish the series which ran from 1995 to 2002. The series proved a comme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea; overseas territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Due to its several coastal territories, France has the largest exclusive economic zone in the world. France borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Andorra, and Spain in continental Europe, as well as the Netherlands, Suriname, and Brazil in the Americas via its overseas territories in French Guiana and Saint Martin. Its eighteen integral regions (five of which are overseas) span a combined area of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garulfo
''Garulfo'' is a six-volume fantasy graphic novel created by writer Alain Ayroles, cartoonist Bruno Maïorana and colorist Thierry Leprévost. ''Garulfo'' is a humorous modern fable inspired by traditional folklore, legends and fairy tales. It is set in an imaginary world that resembles Europe between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The lead character, Garulfo, is a frog who wants to become a man: a biped at the top of the food chain. With the help of a witch and a kiss from a maid he transforms into a Prince. However, Garulfo soon realizes that man has a tendency to prey on his own kind, and that life as a frog was not so bad after all. The themes of environmentalism and humanism run throughout, with philosophical perspectives on privilege, social justice, poverty, economics, love, and death in the subtext. Synopsis The story of Garulfo takes inspiration from traditional folklore and fairy tales to deliver a humorous, yet critical, vision of human society through the na� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Ayroles
Alain Ayroles is a French author, playwright, screenwriter and translator known best for his graphic novels '' Garulfo'', '' De cape et de crocs'' and ''Les Indes Fourbes''. Career Education and early career Alain Ayroles studied sequential art at the School of Fine Arts in Angoulême, France, where time spent as role-playing game gamemaster to fellow students Jean-Luc Masbou and Bruno Maïorana laid the foundations for future collaborations on a series of highly successful graphic novel projects. For these games he created ''Contes et Racontars'', a fantasy universe that combined swashbuckling adventure with traditional legends, in which one of the players plays a wolf and another a fox, and where the gamemaster plays a non-player character in the guise of a rabbit. This universe would become the inspiration for two series: fairy tale '' Garulfo'' and the epic '' De cape et de crocs''. Ayroles got his break when a small publishing house, recently created by the young Guy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and graphic components of the work as part of their practice. Cartoonists may work in a variety of formats, including booklets, comic strips, comic books, editorial cartoons, graphic novels, manuals, gag cartoons, storyboards, posters, shirts, books, advertisements, greeting cards, magazines, newspapers, webcomics, and video game packaging. Terminology Cartoonists may also be denoted by terms such as comics artist, comic book artist, graphic novel artist or graphic novelist. Ambiguity may arise because "comic book artist" may also refer to the person who only illustrates the comic, and "graphic novelist" may also refer to the person who only writes the script. History The English satirist and editorial cartoonist William H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illustrator
An illustrator is an artist who specializes in enhancing writing or elucidating concepts by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text or idea. The illustration may be intended to clarify complicated concepts or objects that are difficult to describe textually, which is the reason illustrations are often found in children's books. Illustration is the art of making images that work with something and add to it without needing direct attention and without distracting from what they illustrate. The other thing is the focus of the attention, and the illustration's role is to add personality and character without competing with that other thing. Illustrations have been used in advertisements, architectural rendering, greeting cards, posters, books, graphic novels, storyboards, business, technical communications, magazines, shirts, video games, tutorials, and newspapers. A cartoon illustration can add humor to stories or essays ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Luc Masbou Jean-Luc Masbou (born in Figeac on 14 March 1963) is a French cartoonist. Masbou studied at the École supérieure de l'image of Angoulême. He has published the series ''L'Ombre de l'échafaud'', for which he wrote the scenario, and the series ''De cape et de crocs'' as a cartoonist. Works * ''De cape et de crocs'' written by Alain Ayroles ** Tome 1 : ''Le secret du Janissaire'' ** Tome 2 : ''Pavillon noir !'' ** Tome 3 : ''L'archipel du danger'' ** Tome 4 : ''Le mystère de l'île étrange'' ** Tome 5 : ''Jean sans lune'' ** Tome 6 : ''Luna Incognita'' ** Tome 7 : ''Chasseurs de Chimères'' ** Tome 8 : ''Le Maître d'armes'' ** Tome 9 : ''Revers de fortune'' * ''L'Ombre de l'échafaud'' (scenario by Jean-Luc Masbou, cartoons by David Cerqueira and Sophie Barou) |
