Christophe Chabouté

The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is book illustration, visual arts and comic. Distinctions recorded are RTL Prize for comic book, Marine Bravo Zulu comics prize and Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for First Comic Book.

• Born — 8 February 1967 • Occupation — Comic book artist Christophe Chabouté (born 8 February 1967) is a French comics artist.

Chabouté was born on February 8, 1967; he is of Alsatian heritage. Chabouté attended Fine Arts courses in Angoulême and Strasbourg. The publishing house Vents d'Ouest published his first pieces in 1993 in Les Récits, a collective album about Arthur Rimbaud. But Chabouté became best known in 1998 by publishing Sorcières by Éditions du Téméraire (awarded at the Illzach Festival) and Quelques jours d'été by Editions Paquet (Alph'Art Coup de Coeur Festival Angoulême). He has also illustrated novels for young people. His work Alone (Tout seul), which is translated into English by Ivanka Hahnenberger, is considered his masterpiece.

• Sorcières, Le Téméraire, 1998 (rééd. Vents d'Ouest, 2001) • Quelques jours d'été, éditions Paquet, 1998 (rééd. 1999 & 2004) • Zoé, collection Intégra, Vents d'Ouest, 1999 • Pleine lune, collection Intégra, Vents d'Ouest, 2000 • Un îlot de bonheur, Paquet, 2001 • La bête, collection Intégra, Vents d'Ouest, 2002 • Purgatoire, collection Equinoxe, Vents d'Ouest • Livre 1, 2003 • Livre 2, 2004 • Livre 3, 2005 • Henri Désiré Landru, collection Intégra, Vents d'Ouest, 2006 • To Build a Fire (Construire un feu), collection Equinoxe, Vents d'Ouest, 2007 – After the 1907 short story by Jack London – Prix Cognac du Meilleur Album "One Shot" 2008 • Alone (Tout seul), Vents d'Ouest, 2008 – (Sélection officielle du Festival d'Angoulême 2009) • Terre-Neuvas, collection Intégra, Vents d'Ouest, 2009 • Fables Amères, De Tout Petits Riens, Vents d'Ouest, 2010 • Princesses aussi vont au petit coin (Les), Vents d'Ouest, 2011 • The Park Bench (Un peu de bois et d'acier), Vents d'Ouest, 2012 • Moby Dick, Vents d'Ouest – After the 1851 novel by Herman Melville • Livre Premier, 2014 • Livre Second, 2014 • Fables amères, Détails futiles, Vents d'Ouest, 2019 • Yellow Cab, Vents d'Ouest, 2021 – After the book by Benoît Cohen • Musée, Vents d'Ouest and Musée d'Orsay, 2023 • Plus loin qu'ailleurs, Vents d'Ouest, 2025

The Park Bench was adapted into a silent black and white 45-minutes film directed by Antonin Le Guay (Sandgate Productions) in 2014. It was partly funded through the crowdfunding platform Kiss Kiss Bank Bank from 2 to 27 June 2014. The funding ended on 134%. The French music group L'Étrange K and the association Scènes occupation signed in April 2016 an adaptation of the same Chabouté comic strip in "BD-concert" (diffusion of the comic book accompanied by live music).