Emmanuel Larcenet

Since 2000, he mostly works with Dargaud.

The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is comic and illustration. Employment is recorded with Spirou, Fluide Glacial and Dargaud. Works named in the authority record are Blast and Le Combat ordinaire. Distinctions recorded are Prix Tournesol, Officer of Arts and Letters, prix Jacques-Lob and Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album.

Emmanuel Larcenet, also known as Manu Larcenet, was born in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He studied graphic art at the Sèvres lycée and then went on to art school. While spending time as a singer in a punk-rock band, he published his first drawings in comics and rock fanzines. In October 1994, he was published in the French magazine Fluide Glacial (issue #220) with L'Expert comptable de la jungle, a first story rapidly followed by other complete ones, and republished later in comic books, in the series Soyons fous, La Loi des séries and Bill Baroud. Meanwhile, Larcenet was also actively working for Les rêveurs de rune. For this magazine and label specialising in fantasy, he created games called Raoul, D'ac Raoul, and, in 1997, Dallas cowboy. From that year on, alone first and then with Gaudelette, he worked for Spirou magazine, publishing Pedro le Coati, among others. In 1998, still for Dupuis but with Jean-Michel Thiriet, he created La vie est courte. His other drawings were independently collected and published in 1996 and 1998 in 30 millions d'imbéciles and Ni dieu, ni maître, ni croquettes by Glénat. In 2000, he met Guy Vidal who would become responsible for the label Poisson Pilote at Dargaud. He became friends with him and started contributing to the Poisson Pilote label, drawing Les cosmonautes du futur based on a script by Lewis Trondheim, and later on Les Entremondes with his brother Patrice Larcenet. In June 2001, he left Paris for Lyon, keeping contact with Vidal. On a scenario by Jean-Yves Ferri, he participated in Le retour à la terre. Finally, he signed alone his next books: the Une aventure rocambolesque de..., Le combat ordinaire (this last one being granted an award by the Prize for Best Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival) and Nic Oumouk series. In 2024, Larcenet adapted The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, which is based on Cormac McCarthy's The Road and was published in English translation by Abrams ComicArts the same year.

• 2001: nominated for the Humour Award and the Best French Comic Book Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France • 2002: nominated for the Best Artwork Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival • 2003: nominated for the Audience Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival • 2004: Best Comic Book Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival • – nominated for the Audience Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival • 2006: nominated for Best Comic (French language) and Best Story at the Prix Saint-Michel, Belgium • 2010: French Comics Library Prize for Best Comic Book for the first volume of Blast.