Serge Le Tendre
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Serge Le Tendre (born 1 December 1946) is a French comics writer known from his collaborations with Régis Loisel, Pierre Makyo, and . He wrote a number of series together with .
Biography[]
Serge Le Tendre was born in 1946 in Vincennes, near Paris, in France. When he was 16, he started working as an assistant-accountant but two years later he started following the comics lessons at the university, delivered by artists and scholars like Jean-Claude Mézières, Jean Giraud, and . Fellow students included Régis Loisel and André Juillard. By 1974, he was writing short comics stories for artists like Annie Goetzinger and , which appeared in Pilote and other magazines. In 1975 he created La Quête de l'oiseau du temps with Loisel, which first appeared in Imagine; it was restarted in Charlie Mensuel in 1982 and appeared in album format from the next year onwards. In 1984 he co-created the first two albums of Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche for Pierre Makyo.[1]
Bibliography[]
The years given are for the album publications, not for magazine prepublications. All works in French unless otherwise noted.[1]
- Chinaman (1997-2007), 9 parts, with (published in English by Europe Comics)
- La Dernière lune (1993), 1 part, with and
- Edmond et Crustave (1987), 1 part, with
- Les Errances de Julius Antoine (1985-1989), 3 parts, with Christian Rossi
- La Gloire d'Héra (1996-2002), 2 parts, with Christian Rossi
- Golias (2012-2015), 4 parts, with
- White Claw (2013-2015), 3 parts, with TaDuc
- L'Histoire de Siloë (2000-), 3 parts, with Servain
- J'ai tué (2015), 1 part, with
- Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche (1985), 2 parts with Pierre Makyo and
- Labyrinthes (1993-1995), 4 parts, with Dieter and
- Le Livre des destins (2004-2012), 5 parts, with
- Mission Vietnam (2003), 1 part, with and
- Mister George (2003), 2 parts, with Rodolphe and
- L'Oiseau noir (1992), 1 part, with
- Le Paradis sur terre (2011-2012), 2 parts, with
- Por amor al arte (1991-1994), 4 parts, with (originally in Spanish)
- The Bleiberg Project (2017-), 3 parts, with
- The Quest for the Time Bird (1983-2017), 9 parts, with Régis Loisel, and
- Taï-Dor (1987-1997), 7 parts, with Rodolphe and
- Le Temps des châteaux (1985), 1 part, with
- Terminus 1 (2016), 2 parts, with Jean-Michel Ponzio
- Tirésias (2001), 2 parts, with Christian Rossi
- Vestiges de l'Aube (2014-2015), 2 parts, with Frédéric Peynet
- Les Voyages de Takuan (1987-1996), 5 parts, with and TaDuc
Awards[]
- 1985: won the Award of the Public at the Prix Saint-Michel for Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche
- 1986: won the Lucien award at the Angoulême festival for La Quête de l'oiseau du temps
- 1986: for best foreign artist
- 1999: Angoulême International Comics Festival Prix Jeunesse 9–12 ans for La Quête de l'oiseau du temps
- 2002: nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album for Tirésias
- 2002: for Tirésias
- 2004: nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize Awarded by the Audience for Mister George
Notes[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Serge Le Tendre". Bédétheque. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- 1946 births
- Living people
- French comics writers