Émile Bravo
Émile Bravo ( born September 18, 1964 in Paris ) is a French comic book artist, writer and illustrator. It is especially important to him to speak with his works including children and he believes it is wrong, if only comics for adults are considered to be level and challenging.
- 2.2.1 works of the series Boucle d'or et les sept ours nains (Eng. The Seven Dwarfs bears)
Biography
Bravo was born in 1964 as a child of Spanish exiles. His father had to flee from Franco and got to know the mother in France. As a child he was an avid reader of the French- Belgian comic canon of works by Goscinny, Hergé, Peyo and Morris, as a teenager by Hugo Pratt, above all its Corto Maltese. Later Yves Chaland, the screenwriter Yann and Franquin important role models.
Character defining appeared next to Hergé but above all cooperation with Joann Sfar and Christophe Blain on him. In 1992, he joined the studio Nawak where they both worked. Here he learned the L'Association artist Jean -Christophe Menu, Lewis Trondheim and David B. know. He had at the time already published his first two publish comic books: Fighters and Coast, the latter Atomium '58 appeared in the series after all, but not in German. They stayed in France and Belgium still largely unnoticed. In the studio Nawak he began his first extended series. The title character of the three-volume series, Aleksis Strogonov, playing on Michael Strogoff, the hero of The Courier of the Czar.
General estimates Bravo working together in a studio with friends. After the time in the studio Nawak he belongs to the Atelier des Vosges (Eng. "Atelier of the Vosges " ), date, together with about Nine Antico for Studio La Piscine ( " The swimming pool ").
In its beginnings as a draftsman, he earned his livelihood to a large extent by order Illustrations. He prefers it but to create their own universes in comics, this is now also economically interesting. But sometimes he is still working as an illustrator for French children 's and youth magazines and illustrator and author of children's books. With his first self- penned series, Une aventure de Jules épatante he won the Prix René Goscinny in 2002. The World spacefaring Jules is a child, according to this comic conscious young readers to be addressed. His series about the Seven Dwarf Bears mixed numerous legends and tales. According to Volker Hamann her absurd joke is a little with Shrek ( the movie 2001 ) are comparable, " but unlike the quiet and friendly. "
As a final breakthrough in his career My mother is in America and Buffalo Bill are met. The graphic novel for children earned numerous awards, including one in 2008 in Angoulême, and the German Youth Literature Award 2010 in the category of children's books. As a result, he was also a " special band" to Spirou and Fantasio transpose: Portrait of a hero as a young fool. The coloring of this work originate, as already in the second to fifth band of Jules, La Piscine colleague Delphine Chédru.
Works
As a comic artist
- With Jacques Sorg: Fighters, 1988
- With Jean Regnaud: Coast, 1990
Works of the series Aleksis Strogonov ( with Jean Regnaud )
Works of the series Une aventure de Jules épatante
- With Jean Regnaud: Ma maman est en Amerique, elle a rencontre Buffalo Bill, 2007
- German: My mother is in America and Buffalo Bill has taken translation: Kai Wilksen, Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2009 ISBN 978-3-551-77790-4
- Une aventure de Spirou et Fantasio: Le Journal d'un ingénu, 2008
- German: Spirou and Fantasio Special: Portrait of a hero as a young fool, translation: Martin Budde, Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2009 ISBN 978-3-551-77696-9
As an illustrator of children's books
- C'était la Guerre Mondiale, 2003