Emmanuel Larcenet

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Emmanuel Larcenet (born on May 6, 1969 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a French comics writer and artist. He has been working with Fluide Glacial magazine since 1994 and with Spirou magazine since 1997.

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[edit] Biography

Emmanuel Larcenet, also known as Manu Larcenet, 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 runes". 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 series Poisson Pilote at Dargaud. He became friends with him and started contributing to the Poisson Pilote series, writing Les cosmonautes du futur with 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 Comic Book at the Angoulême International Comics Festival) and Nic Oumouk series.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Nic Oumouk (Dargaud, 2005-2007)
    • La France a peur de Nic Oumouk (2007)
    • Total Souk pour Nic Oumouk (2005)
  • Le combat ordinaire (Dargaud, 2003-2006)
    • Planter des clous (2008)
    • Ce qui est précieux (2006)
    • Les quantités négligeables (2004)
    • Le combat ordinaire (2003)
  • Une aventure rocambolesque de... (Dargaud, 2002-2004)
    • Vincent Van Gogh: La ligne de Front (2004)
    • Sigmund Freud: Le temps de chien (2002)
  • Les cosmonautes du futur (Dargaud, 2000-2004)
    • Résurrection (with Lewis Trondheim) (2004)
    • Le retour (with Lewis Trondheim) (2001)
    • Volume 1 (with Lewis Trondheim) (2000)
  • Le retour à la terre (Dargaud, 2002-2003)
    • Le déluge (with Jean-Yves Ferri) (2006)
    • Le vaste monde (with Jean-Yves Ferri) (2005)
    • Les projets (with Jean-Yves Ferri) (2003)
    • La vraie vie (with Jean-Yves Ferri) (2002)
  • Bill Baroud (Fluide Glacial, 1998-2002)
    • La jeunesse de Bill Baroud (2002)
    • La dernière valse (2000)
    • A la rescousse (1999)
    • Espion (1998)
  • Donjon parade (Delcourt, 2000-2002)
    • Technique Grogro (with Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim) (2007)
    • Des fleurs et des marmots (with Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim) (2004)
    • Le jour des crapauds (with Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim) (2002)
    • Le sage du ghetto (with Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim) (2001)
    • Un donjon de trop (with Joann Sfar and Lewis Trondheim) (2000)
  • Pedro le coati (Dupuis, 2001-2002)
    • Volume 2 (with Gaudelette) (2002)
    • Volume 1 (with Gaudelette) (2001)
  • Soyons fous (Fluide Glacial, 1996-2002)
    • Dans la dignité (2002)
    • Volume 1 (1996)
  • Les entremondes (Dargaud, 2000-2001)
    • Les eaux lourdes (with Patrice Larcenet) (2001)
    • Lazarr (with Patrice Larcenet) (2000)
  • La vie est courte (Dupuis, 1998-2000)
    • Rien ne va plus (with Jean-Michel Thiriet) (2000)
    • Jusqu'à présent (with Jean-Michel Thiriet) (1999)
    • Profitons-en (with Jean-Michel Thiriet) (1998)
  • La légende de Robin des bois (Dargaud, 2003)
  • L'artiste de la famille (Les rêveurs de runes, 2001)
  • Les superhéros injustement méconnus (Fluide Glacial, 2001)
  • On fera avec (Les rêveurs de runes, 2000)
  • A l'ouest de l'infini (drawings by Julien Solé) (Fluide Glacial, 1999)
  • Presque (Les rêveurs de runes, 1998)
  • Ni dieu ni maître ni croquettes (with Patrice Larcenet) (Glénat, 1998)
  • Dallas cowboy (Les rêveurs de runes, 1997)
  • La loi des séries (Fluide Glacial, 1997)
  • 30 millions d'imbéciles: Encyclopédie à poils et à vapeur (with Patrice Larcenet) (Glénat, 1996)

[edit] Awards

- nominated for the Audience Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival

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