Pierre Christin

Pierre Christin ( born July 27, 1938 in Saint- Mandé ) is a French author who is mainly active as Comicszenarist.

Biography

After his graduation at the Sorbonne in Paris Christin taught political science and became a professor of French literature at the University of Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. His first comic story, Le Rhum du Punch, illustrated by his childhood friend Jean -Claude Mézières, was published in 1966 in Pilote magazine. Christin returned the following year returned to France to join the faculty at the University of Bordeaux. This year he worked again with Mézières together on the science fiction series Valerian & Veronique for Pilote. The first episode was Les Mauvais Rêves (Eng. "Bad Dreams" ).

In addition to the stories about Valerian & Veronique, which are intended more for young readers, Christin created together with the signatories Enki Bilal and Jacques Tardi (only a comic ) the Légendes d' aujourd'hui (English Legends of the present), a number political thriller with some fantastic elements, including Partie de Chasse. For Annie Goetzinger he wrote La Diva et le war game (Eng. " The Diva "). The comic depicts a tribunal against a French opera singer, who is accused by the end of the Second World War, the collaboration with the Nazis. In addition, he worked with cartoonists such as François Boucq or Daniel Ceppi and also wrote screenplays and science fiction novels.

In 1996 he was awarded at the International Comic Salon Erlangen with the Max and Moritz Prize in the category Best International scenarist and 2010, the Special Prize for outstanding life's work.