Pierre-Henry Gomont

Gomont was born in January 1978. He studied at business school and prepared a doctoral thesis in sociology, though he did not defend it. As an artist, he is self-taught. He has cited Gipi's Notes for a War Story, Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes, Mike Mignola, and Charles Burns among his influences.

Gomont worked in several fields, including sociology, before becoming a comics creator. His work includes original albums, collaborations with writers, and adaptations of literary works. Gomont debuted as a comics creator in the 2010 anthology 13m28. He published his first comic album, Kirkenes, with Jonathan Châtel in 2011. The same year, he published Catalyse. In 2014, he illustrated the crime comic Rouge Karma, written by Eddy Simon. He received wider attention with Pereira prétend, his adaptation of Antonio Tabucchi's novel Pereira Maintains, which received the Grand prix RTL de la bande dessinée in 2016. He received the same award in 2018 for Malaterre. His later work includes the historical album La Fuite du cerveau and the three-volume Slava series, set in Russia in the 1990s. For Pereira prétend, Gomont won the 2017 Prix Château de Cheverny de la bande dessinée historique at the Festival Les Rendez-vous de l'histoire in Blois. In 2018, Gomont published Malaterre, which was inspired by his own youth and took eight years to complete. In 2020, he published La Fuite du cerveau, inspired by the theft of Albert Einstein's brain by pathologist Thomas Stoltz Harvey. In 2026, he illustrated Nicolas Mathieu's daily Eurosport column Sur la ligne during the French Open.

• Year — Title — Role — Publisher — Notes • 2011 — Kirkenes — Artist; written by Jonathan Châtel — Les Enfants rouges — First full album • 2011 — Catalyse — Writer and artist — Manolosanctis • 2012 — Crématorium — Artist; written by Éric Borg — KSTЯ (defunct Casterman imprint) • 2014 — Rouge Karma — Artist; written by Eddy Simon — Éditions Sarbacane — Winner, 2015 Prix SNCF du polar, comics category • 2015 — Les Nuits de Saturne — Writer and artist — Sarbacane — Adapted from the novel by Marcus Malte • 2016 — Pereira prétend — Writer and artist — Sarbacane — Adapted from Antonio Tabucchi's novel, won 2016 Grand prix RTL de la bande dessinée • 2018 — Malaterre — Writer and artist — Éditions Dargaud — Winner, 2018 Grand prix RTL de la bande dessinée • 2019 — La Fuite du cerveau — Writer and artist — Dargaud — English translation published as The Brain Drain • 2022–2024 — Slava — Writer and artist — Dargaud — Trilogy: Après la chute, Les Nouveaux Russes, and Un enfer pour un autre; published in English in the United States as Soviet Land