Émile Bravo

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Émile Bravo drawing Spirou at a comics festival in Strasbourg in 2009

Émile Bravo (born 18 September 1964) is a French comics artist.

Biography[]

Émile Bravo was born in Paris in 1964 from Spanish parents (a Catalan father and a Valencian mother).[1] Having grown up with the famous Franco-Belgian comics like Astérix and The Adventures of Tintin, he wanted to become a comics creator. After his studies, he started working for the magazine Marie-France and as an illustrator, before publishing his first comic book in 1990. It was written by , with whom he would collaborate on multiple occasions over the next decades.[2]

In 1992, he became a member of the "Atelier Nawak" (later the ) and their publishing branch L'Association, working together with people like Joann Sfar, Lewis Trondheim, David B., and .[3] There he met and advised Marjane Satrapi.[4]

Bibliography[]

  • Ivoire
written by , Atomium, 1990; translated in Dutch
  • Aleksis Strogonov
3 albums, with Jean Regnaud, 1993-1998
  • Épatantes aventures de Jules
6 albums at Dargaud, from 2000 on, winner of the 2002 Angoulême International Comics Festival René Goscinny award for the second album La Réplique Inattendue, from 2001
  • The Seven Squat Bears
Three albums, originally published between 2004 and 2009. Translated in English as Goldlocks and the Seven Squat Bears, Orbit, 2010; The Hunger of the Seven Squat Bears, Orbit, 2011; and Beauty and the Squat Bears, Orbit, 2011. Nominated for the 2012 Eisner Awards in the category Best Publication for Early Readers (up to age 7)
  • Ma maman est en Amérique, elle a rencontré Buffalo Bill, Gallimard, 2007; translated as My Mommy Is in America and She Met Buffalo Bill, Ponet Mon, 2009
written by Jean Regnaud; named one of the five Angoulême International Comics Festival Essentials, and nominated for the 2007 Prix Saint-Michel for Youth Comics and the 2010 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for children's books; also translated in Spanish, German and Dutch
  • Spirou et Fantasio: Journal d'un ingénu, Dupuis, 2008
winner of the , , Prix Saint-Michel for best French-language comic, and the Award for the best comic of 2009 by the readers of Libération, and named one of the five Angoulême International Comics Festival Essentials; translated in Spanish, Dutch, Danish and Marols

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jimenez, Jesus (4 December 2011). "Émile Bravo: "Quería desmitificar a Spirou"" (in Spanish). RTVE. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
  2. ^ Le Saux, Laurence (4 May 2008). "Dans l'atelier d'Emile Bravo". (in French). Retrieved 31 August 2012.
  3. ^ Nebreda, Marcos (14 August 2010). "Émile Bravo, un defensor del carácter formativo del cómic infantil". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 August 2012.
  4. ^ Hajdu, David (2009). Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture. Da Capo Press. p. 352. ISBN 9780306818332.

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