David Beauchard

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David Beauchard (born February 9, 1959), who uses the pen name David B., is a French comic book artist and writer, and one of the founders of L'Association.

After studying advertising at the Duperré School of Applied Arts in Paris, Beauchard began working in comics in 1985 (Pas de samba pour capitaine Tonnerre), and wrote and illustrated stories in numerous magazines, including Okapi, À suivre, Tintin Reporter, and Chic. His distinctive black-and-white style was influenced by Georges Pichard and Jacques Tardi, among others.

In 1990, he co-founded the independent publisher L'Association, which became a major force in French small-press comics. His comics appeared in the L'Association anthology magazine Lapin and in numerous small-format books. Much of his work in the '90s was dream art, collected in le Cheval blême and les Incidents de la nuit.

From 1996 to 2003, he created the acclaimed six-volume autobiographical epic l'Ascension du Haut Mal (published in English as Epileptic, the first of his long works to be translated into English), which is considered nowadays to be among the masterpieces of recent Franco-Belgian comics, as its multiple nominations at the Angoulême International Comics Festival shows : In 2002, the volume 4 got the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Scenario and in 1998 and in 2004, volume 2 and 6 were nominated for the Prize for Best Comic Book.

Since 1997, he has also worked for publishers other than L'Association, and has collaborated with other authors such as Joann Sfar, Christophe Blain, and Emmanuel Guibert.

In 2005 Beauchard was awarded the Ignatz for Outstanding Artist.

[edit] Bibliography

• le Timbre maudit (Bayard Presse, 1986)
• les Leçons du nourrisson savant (Le Seuil, 1990)
  1. les Leçons du nourrisson savant (1990)
  2. le Nourrisson savant et ses parents (1990)
• le Cheval blême (L'Association, 1992)
• le Cercueil de course (L'Association, 1993)
• le Livre somnambule (Automne 67, 1994)
• le Messie discret in le Retour de Dieu (Autrement, 1994)
• le Nain jaune (Cornélius, 1993-1994)
  1. Tome 1 (1993)
  2. Tome 2 (1993)
  3. Tome 3 (1994)
  4. Tome 4 (1994)
  5. Tome 5 (1994)
• la Bombe familiale (L'Association, 1997) ISBN 2-909020-78-9
• le Tengu carré (Dargaud, 1997) ISBN 2-205-04252-1
• les 4 Savants (Cornélius, 1996-1998)
  1. Tome 1 (1996)
  2. Tome 2 (1997)
  3. Tome 3 (1998)
• L'Association en Égypte (with Golo, Edmond Baudoin, Jean-Christophe Menu) (L'Association, 1998)
• Maman a des problèmes (with Anne Baraou) (L'Association, 1999)
• Hiram Lowatt et Placido (with Christophe Blain) (Dargaud, 2000)
  1. la Révolte de Hop-Frog (2000)
  2. les Ogres (2000)
• la Ville des mauvais rêves (with Joann Sfar) (Dargaud, 2000)
  1. Urani (2000) ISBN 2-205-04795-7
• le Capitaine écarlate (with Emmanuel Guibert) (Dupuis, 2000) ISBN 2-8001-2971-9
• la Lecture des ruines (Dupuis, 2001)
• les Incidents de la nuit (L'Association, 1999-2002)
  1. Tome 1 (1999)
  2. Tome 2 (2000)
  3. Tome 3 (2002)
• l'Ascension du Haut Mal (Epileptic) (L'Association, 1996-2003)
  1. Tome 1 (1996) ISBN 2-909020-73-8
  2. Tome 2 (1997) ISBN 2-909020-84-3
  3. Tome 3 (1998) ISBN 2-84414-004-1
  4. Tome 4 (1999) ISBN 2-84414-020-3
  5. Tome 5 (2000) ISBN 2-84414-047-5
  6. Tome 6 (2003) ISBN 2-84414-075-0
• les Chercheurs de trésors (Dargaud, 2003-2004)
  1. l'Ombre de Dieu (2003) ISBN 2-205-05363-9
  2. la Ville froide (2004) ISBN 2-205-05479-1
• Babel (Coconino Press, 2004)