Frédéric Boilet

Frédéric Boilet ( born January 16, 1960 in Epinal, Vosges department in Lorraine ) is a French comic book writer and artist, who has long lived and worked in Japan.

Life and work

Boilet attended the Art Academy ( École nationale supérieure d'art ) in Nancy provided by 1978 until 1983. During the same year, his first comic book was published, La Nuit des Archées, which was written by Guy Deffeyes. There followed a historical story in two volumes, Les Veines de l' Occident, which was texted by René Durand.

In 1987, the first album he texted and has drawn, le rayon vert Boilet had the bad luck that the publisher made ​​shortly after the release of the critically acclaimed band broke. 2009, there appeared again.

36 15 Alexia, published in 1990, in an original way deals with the topic of rencontres par minitel.

1990 could Boilet, du Livre travel nationally with the support of Shoei and the Centre to Japan. This was created in collaboration with Benoît Peeters Love Hotel (1993 ) will tell the strange and comical adventures of a Frenchman in Japan. The book is completely bilingual, French and Japanese.

The following year he was from April to September scholarship from the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, a first for a comic book artist. Tōkyō est mon jardin arises, the continuation of Love Hotel. Boilet and his hero have settled down a bit and not go completely in the still considered bizarre experienced Japan lost.

In Paris he founded in 1995, L' Atelier des Vosges, together with the friends Christophe Blain, David B., Émile Bravo, Joann Sfar, Emmanuel Guibert and Tronchet. The strange band Demi -tour created.

Boilet 1997 returned back to Japan to stay with the aim of there and to establish itself as a comic book author. A Japanese edition of Tōkyō est mon jardin arose and works that are intended only for the Japanese market, Une belle d'amour manga and a series of illustrated books under the ironic title of Prisonnier Japonaises (modern Lettres persanes ). Boilet was known.

Boilet is now also a mediator by Japanese writers in France, by Jiro Taniguchi about. He initiated the multicultural experiment La Nouvelle Manga, of course, whose title alludes to the cinematic Nouvelle Vague. He was also from 2004 to 2008 a series of manga author, Sakka Casterman out and also the joint project Japon, which in Castermans Écritures series was published in 2005. The staff of the book were Moyoko Anno, Aurélia Aurita, Frédéric Boilet, Nicolas de Crécy, Etienne Davodeau, Little Fish, Emmanuel Guibert, Kazuichi Hanawa, Daisuke Igarashi, Taiyo Matsumoto, Fabrice Neaud, Benoît Peeters, David Prudhomme, François Schuiten, Joann Sfar and Kan Takahama.

Boilet has created a complex work of art, whose common denominator is only the non- definable personality Boilet yourself, even if, of course, repeat certain stylistic Built types and ticks, each new project is as it were a surprise for everyone involved. After 36 15 Alexia his stories always play in the present and use the Ümständen his life virtuously, they invent his life anew and are not realistic or autobiographical.

His drawing style has also changed, from the beginning, a virtuoso draftsman, he has step -by-step photographs and reinforced the special point of view of photography itself integrated into his work. The reader is. Due to the use of photographic clichés themselves to a kind of camera voyeur

Published in France Albums

• La Nuit des Archées - Text by Guy Deffeyes ( Bayard Press, 1983)
• Les Veines de l' Occident t1, la Fille of Iberes - Text by René Durand ( Glénat 1985)
• Les Veines de l' Occident t2, le Cheval- démon - Text by René Durand ( Glénat 1988)
• Le Rayon vert (Magic Strip in 1987 ); expanded new edition (Les Impressions Nouvelles 2009)
• 36 15 Alexia (Les Associés Humanoïdes 1990 edition at Ego comme X 2004)
• Love Hotel - Text by Benoît Peeters ( Casterman 1993 edition at Ego comme X 2005)
• Tōkyō est mon jardin - By Benoît Peeters and Jiro Taniguchi ( Casterman, 1997; reprint 2003)
• Demi -tour - By Benoît Peeters and Emmanuel Guibert ( Dupuis Aire libre 1997)
• L' Épinard de Yukiko ( Ego comme X 2001)
• Mariko Parade - With Kan Takahama ( Casterman 2003)
• L' Apprenti Japonais, texts, drawings, photos (Les Impressions Nouvelles 2006)
• Elles ( Ego comme X 2007)

Published in Japan

• Tōkyō wa boku no niwa (東京 は 僕 の 庭); Tōkyō est mon jardin. By Benoît Peeters and Jiro Taniguchi ( Kōrinsha 1998)
• Ren'ai manga ga dekiru made ​​(恋愛 漫画 が できる まで); Une belle manga d'amour. By Benoît Peeters and Emmanuel Guibert ( Bijutsu Shuppansha 1999)
• Yukiko no Horenso (ゆき子 の ホウレン草); L' Épinard de Yukiko ( Ohta Shuppan 2001)
• Mariko Parade (まり子 パラード). With Kan Takahama ( Ohta Shuppan, 2003 )