Jean-Pierre Autheman
Born17 December 1946
Arles, France
Died26 October 2020(2020-10-26) (aged 73)
Arles, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationComic Book Author

Jean-Pierre Autheman (17 December 1946 – 26 October 2020) was a French comic book author and teacher in art, computer graphics school.[1] He was also occasionally a novelist,[2] illustrator, and cartoonist.[3]

Biography

After studying arts and letters,[4] Autheman moved from Arles to Paris to try his luck as a designer. He made his debut in 1972 with the self-published comic strip Mémoires d'un Gardien de Phare. His friend, Georges Wolinski, who worked for Hara-Kiri,[5] helped him publish comics in Charlie Mensuel, L'Écho des savanes, and Pilote. At the end of the 1970s, he became involved in the Rencontres d'Arles.[6]

In 1979, Autheman created the characters Condor and Vic Valence, whose first title, Une nuit chez Tennessee won Best Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 1987.[7] He then began writing comics with more scarcity, with his last written comic coming in 2006, titled Zambada and illustrated by Éric Maltaite. He then became a professor of narrative image and screenplay design at the École des Nouvelles Images (formerly Supinfocom) in Avignon.

Jean-Pierre Autheman died in Arles on 26 October 2020, at the age of 73.[8] According to Guy Vidal, Autheman was a "great screenwriter".[9] Pierre Desproges complimented his warm character.[10]

Publications

Newspaper Comic Strips

  1. L'Otage (1982-1983)
  2. Alerte en Afrique (1984)
  3. L'Empire du Pacifique (1986–1987)
  4. Le Testament de Marius Casanova (1989)
  1. Une nuit chez Tennessee (1985–1986)
  2. La Passagère silencieuse (1987)

Comic Strip Albums

  1. Escale à Nacaro (1979)
  2. L'Otage (1984)
  3. Alerte en Afrique (1985)
  4. L'Empire du Pacifique (1987)
  5. Le Testament de Marius Casanova (1990)
  6. Opérette marseillaise (1993)
  7. Le Rendez-vous de Yu-Moon (1998)
  1. Une nuit chez Tennessee (1986)
  2. La Passagère silencieuse (1987)
  3. La Lune des fous (1989)
  1. Les Vagues de la mer (2001)
  2. La Maison de l'ange (2002)
  3. Menace sur Zambada (2003)
  4. Double jeu (2006)

Co-Authorship

Novels

Recipe Book

Awards

Biography

  1. ^ "Jean-Pierre Autheman est mort". Arles Info (in French). 27 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Rédaction : Mélanie Vallat Cristianini, Françoise Maurette, Jean-Pierre Autheman, Frédérique Bourguet" (PDF). Arles Info (in French). March 2007.
  3. ^ "Jean-Pierre Autheman". Arles Info (in French).
  4. ^ "Jean-Pierre Autheman". Encyclopédie Larousse (in French).
  5. ^ "Les attaches profondes de Wolinski avec Arles". La Provence (in French). 8 January 2015.
  6. ^ "Quel est votre meilleur souvenir des Rencontres ?" (PDF). Arles Info (in French). June 2009.
  7. ^ Sallaud (Infographie), Mattéo (25 January 2019). "BD : au festival d'Angoulême, le prix du meilleur album prend du poids chaque année". Sud Ouest (in French).
  8. ^ "Mort de l'auteur de BD Jean-Pierre Autheman". BePolar.fr (in French). 2 November 2020.
  9. ^ "Poisson Pilote aux éditions Dargaud" (PDF). Lecture Jeune (in French). July 2000. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2018.
  10. ^ "Interview : entretien avec Eric Maltaite". auracan.com (in French). February 2002.
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