Stephen Desberg

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Stephen Desberg
BornStephen Desberg
(1954-09-10) 10 September 1954 (age 66)
Brussels, Belgium
NationalityBelgian
Area(s)writer
Awardsfull list

Stephen Desberg (born 10 September 1954 in Brussels) is a Belgian writer of comics. In 2010, he was the 10th bestselling author of comics in France, with 412,000 copies of all his comics together sold that year.[1]

Biography[]

Stephen Desberg was born in Brussels in 1954 as the third child of an American lawyer from Cleveland and a French mother who taught him French at the Sorbonne after the Liberation of Paris. They settled in Brussels when Stephen's father became responsible for the distribution of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films in Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands.[2] After finishing college two years late, he studied law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, but didn't finish his studies.[2]

His youth was mainly dominated by American movies, but he also enjoyed the weekly Spirou magazine with series like Buck Danny or the works of Raymond Macherot. He only discovered the authors who published in the main competitor Tintin magazine much later. He became a regular at the comics shop of , who also republished classic comics and a fanzine. After Desberg published his first work here, Deligne introduced him to Maurice Tillieux, one of the major authors of Spirou at the time. At first, he offered some ideas and synopses to Tillieux for series like Jess Long and Tif et Tondu, but he eventually moved to full scenarios for Tif et Tondu, drawn by Will. He started working for a number of other Spirou authors, including , Pierre Seron, Raymond Macherot and (the son of Will).[2]

His first success came in 1980 with Billy the Cat, drawn by . He also created 421 with Eric Maltaite, in 1983 Arkel with , and in 1988 Jimmy Tousseul with . Despite all this, he was simultaneously but unsuccessfully trying to become a professional musician.[2]

By the late 1980s, he moved from the young adolescent comics more towards the adult comics and graphic novel market, with 2 comics with Will and a series with , the son of Bob De Moor, for Casterman, his first move away from publisher Dupuis. After some more short-lived series and collaborations, he started IR$ with . In 2000 starts Le Scorpion with Enrico Marini. Both series became a considerable success.[2] In the following decade, Desberg started a considerable number of new series with multiple artists and publishers, making him by 2010 one of the major writers of contemporary Franco-Belgian comics.

Bibliography[]

  • Tif et Tondu, 1978–1991, 14 albums, art by Will, Dupuis
  • Envahisseurs sur Janus, 1981, 1 album, art by ,
  • Les Centaures, 1982, 1 album, art by Pierre Seron, Dupuis
  • Mic mac Adam, 1982–2000, 6 albums, art by , Dupuis and
  • , 1983–1992, 11 albums, art by , Dupuis
  • Arkel, 1985–1993, 4 albums, art by , Dupuis
  • Gaspard de la nuit, 1987–1991, 4 albums, art by , Casterman
  • Le jardin des désirs, 1988, 1 album, art by Will, Dupuis
  • , 1989–2000, 12 albums, art by , Dupuis
  • La 27e Lettre, 1990, 1 album, art by Will, Dupuis
  • Billy the Cat, 1990–2003, 8 albums, art by , Dupuis
  • la vache, 1992–1999, 8 albums, art by Johan De Moor, Casterman
  • L'Appel de l'enfer, 1993, 1 album, art by Will, P&T Productions
  • Carmen Lamour, 1993, 1 album, art by Eric Maltaite, P&T Productions
  • Equator, 1994, 1 album, art by Dany, Dargaud
  • Jess Long, 1994, 1 album, art by , Dupuis
  • L'étoile du désert, 1996, 2 albums, art by Enrico Marini, Le Lombard
  • Le Sang Noir, 1996–1998, 4 albums, art by , Le Lombard
  • Le Crépuscule des Anges, 1998–1999, 2 albums, art by , Casterman
  • Le Cercle des Sentinelles, 1998–2000, 4 albums, art by , Casterman
  • IR$, 1999-..., 12 albums, art by Bernard Vrancken, Le Lombard
  • Le Scorpion, 2000-..., 9 albums, art by Enrico Marini, Dargaud
  • Lait entier, 2001–2002, 2 albums, art by Johan De Moor, Casterman
  • Tosca, 2001–2003, 3 albums, art by , Glénat
  • Les Immortels, 2001–2005, 5 albums, art by Henri Reculé, Glénat
  • Mayam, 2003–2007, 4 albums, art by , Dargaud
  • Le Dernier Livre de la Jungel, 2004–2007, 4 albums, art by Johan De Moor and Henri Reculé, Le Lombard
  • Rafales, 2005–2008, 4 albums, art by Francis Vallès, Le Lombard
  • , 2005-..., 6 albums, art by , Dargaud
  • , 2007-..., 4 albums, art by Henri Reculé, Le Lombard
  • Empire USA, 2008, 6 albums, collective work (with a.o. Enrico Marini, Henri Reculé, ), Dargaud
  • Sienna, 2008-..., 2 albums, art by ,
  • Ange & diablesses, 2009, 2 albums, art by Marc Hardy, Dupuis
  • IR$ - All Watcher, 2009-..., 6 albums, art by various artists, Le Lombard
  • Sherman, 2011, 6 albums, art by Griffo, Le Lombard

Awards[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Lutaud, Lena (27 January 2011). "Le palmarès des auteurs de bande dessinée". Le Figaro. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Pasamonik, Didier (15 December 2003). "Stephen Desberg: "Le style me touche moins que les idées"" (in French). ActuaBD. Retrieved 31 January 2011.

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