François Boucq
François Boucq (French: [buk]; born 28 November 1955 in Lille), is a French comic book artist. He is most famous for his satirical and surreal comics revolving around the main character Jérôme Moucherot.
François Boucq
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- Born
- 1955.
- Nationality
- France.
- Occupation
- comics artist, illustrator, graphic artist and caricaturist.
- Known for
- The Magician's Wife, Billy Budd, KGB and Bouncer (comic).
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François Boucq (French: [buk]; born 28 November 1955 in Lille), is a French comic book artist. He is most famous for his satirical and surreal comics revolving around the main character Jérôme Moucherot.
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François Boucq (born 1955) is a French caricaturist, comics artist and graphic artist, among other activities. The caricaturist was born in Lille. François Boucq worked for À Suivre, Fluide Glacial and Le Point, among others.
Languages used include French. The caricaturist received Grand prix de la ville d'Angoulême, Max und Moritz award and Prix Saint-Michel, among others.
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Career
Career
Boucq published cartoons in magazines like Le Point or L'Expansion at an early age. Soon, he also created comic albums, becoming famous with Les pionniers de l'aventure humaine. Many more have been published in the meantime, including La Femme du magicien (1986) Bouche du diable (1990) and Little Tulip (2014) with American novelist Jerome Charyn. Boucq created the successful series Face de Lune in cooperation with the artist Alexandro Jodorowsky. 1994 saw the publication of Les dents du recoin, the first album of a series of surreal comics that feature Jérôme Moucherot, a door-to-door insurance salesman with a fountain pen through his nose, who is dressed in a leopard fur suit; his bizarre adventures take place in a world where Smurfs are jungle-dwelling headhunters and sharks swim around in the blue wallpapers of bourgeois living rooms. Boucq later teamed up with Jodorowsky again, creating the graphic novel series Bouncer, set in a bleak Western scenario. In 1998, Boucq was awarded the Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême. In keeping with the festival's tradition, he was the president of the jury in the following year.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1955
François Boucq was born in 1955.
Awards
1985: Prix de la critique at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France 1986: Best French Comic at the Angoulême International Comics Festival 1992: nominated for Best German-language Comic/Comic-related Publication at the Max & Moritz Prizes, Germany 1996: nominated for Best Drawing at the Haxtur Awards, Spain 1998: Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême, France 1999: nominated for Best Short Comic Strip at the Haxtur Awards 2001: nominated for the Humour Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2002: nominated for the Canal BD Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2003: nominated for the Audience Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival La Plumilla de Plata (The silver inkpen) in Mexico. 2004: nominated for the Audience Award and the Series Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival nominated for Best international series at the Prix Saint-Michel, Belgium 2006: Award for Best Drawing at the Albert Uderzo Awards nominated for the Audience Award and the Series Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2008: nominated for Best Artwork at the Prix Saint-Michel 2010: nominated for Best French Language Comic at the Prix Saint-Michel 2012: Award for Best Artwork at the Prix Saint Michel
Selected bibliography
Les pionniers de l'aventure humaine (Pioneers Of The Human Adventure) La Femme du magicien (The Magician's Wife) with writer Jerome Charyn La pédagogie du trottoir Bouche du diable (Billy Budd, KGB) with writer Jerome Charyn Face de Lune with Alejandro Jodorowsky Un point c'est tout Les dents du recoin Little Tulip with writer Jerome Charyn Bouncer, with Alejandro Jodorowsky
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- 1.François BOUCQ : interview à Angoulême (1993)
- 2.De Weyer, Geert. 100 stripklassiekers die niet in je boekenkast mogen ontbreken. Atlas. 213. 2008. 978-90-450-0996-4.
- 3.Asterix Awards 2006 winners Last accessed September 30th, 2006
- 4.De genomineerden 2008.
- 5.Les nominés 2010.
- 6.Striptekenaar Jean-François Charles wint Grote Prijs Sint-Michiel. De Morgen. 7 September 2012.
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- Les pionniers de l'aventure humaine (Pioneers Of The Human Adventure)
- (The Magician's Wife) with writer Jerome Charyn
- La pédagogie du trottoir
- (Billy Budd, KGB) with writer Jerome Charyn
- Face de Lune with Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Un point c'est tout
- Les dents du recoin
- with writer Jerome Charyn
- Bouncer, with Alejandro Jodorowsky
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