Émile Bravo
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[]
- ^ Jimenez, Jesus (4 December 2011). "Émile Bravo: "Quería desmitificar a Spirou"" (in Spanish). RTVE. Retrieved 31 August 2012.
- ^ Le Saux, Laurence (4 May 2008). "Dans l'atelier d'Emile Bravo". (in French). Retrieved 31 August 2012.
- ^ Nebreda, Marcos (14 August 2010). "Émile Bravo, un defensor del carácter formativo del cómic infantil". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 August 2012.
- ^ Hajdu, David (2009). Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture. Da Capo Press. p. 352. ISBN 9780306818332.
External links[]
- internationales literaturfestival berlin biography from 2009
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- 1964 births
- Living people
- Artists from Paris
- French comics artists
- Spirou et Fantasio
- French people of Catalan descent