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
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.
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in 1998.
Career
Crécy was born in
Lyon
Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...
, 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, vicomte Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romanticism, Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.
His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchbac ...
novel ''
Bug-Jargal'', published in 1989 in collaboration with
Sylvain Chomet
Sylvain Chomet (; born 10 November 1963) is a French comic writer, animator and film director.
Early career
Born in Maisons-Laffitte, Seine-et-Oise (now Yvelines), near Paris, he studied art at high school until he graduated in 1982. Chomet m ...
,
whom he had met in Angoulême.
He worked at the
Walt Disney Animation France 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
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; 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
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Sierre is nicknamed City of the Sun () for its average of 300 days of sunshine a year.
It is t ...
, Switzerland
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* 1998: Prize for Best Album, Angoulême International Comics Festival
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(for the second volume of ''Léon la Came'')
References
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French comics writers
Artists from Lyon
1966 births
Living people