Alcante

Alcante
Born Didier Swysen
21 November 1970 (1970-11-21) (age 41)
Belgium
Nationality Belgian
Area(s) Writer
Notable works Pandora Box

Alcante, pen name of Didier Swysen (Belgium, 21 November 1970), is a Belgian comics writer, best known for his series Pandora Box.

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Biography

Alcante has studied economic sciences and worked in academic research, when he won a comics writing contest of publisher Dupuis in 1995. The winning story was published in Spirou magazine. It took another seven years before he regularly began to publish short stories there. Pandora Box is his first series. He is the younger brother of comics creator Bernard Swysen.

Bibliography

An album in the series XIII Mystery focusing on Colonel Amos, with artwork by François Boucq, is planned for 2010.[2]

Other new work includes Re-Mind with Andrea Mutti, Clair-Obscur with Fanny Montgermont, and La Conjuration de Cluny with Luca Malisan.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Bernard, Jean-Philippe (12 November 2009). ""Rani" dans les griffes du maître" (in French). Switzerland: Le Matin.ch. http://www.lematin.ch/loisirs/culture/rani-griffes-maitre-190603. Retrieved 4 March 2010. 
  2. ^ "XIII, la voie des spin-off : Alcante et François Boucq exploreront le passé du Colonel Amos" (in French). Actua BD. 20 June 2008. http://www.actuabd.com/+XIII-la-voie-des-spin-off-Alcante-et-Francois-Boucq-exploreront-le-passe-du-Colonel-Amos+. Retrieved 4 March 2010. 
  3. ^ Anspach, Nicolas (4 January 2010). "Alcante (Rani, Jason Brice) : "Je n’ai pas hésité une seule seconde à adapter en BD une histoire de Jean Van Hamme"" (in French). ActuaBD. http://www.actuabd.com/Alcante-Rani-Jason-Brice-Je-n-ai. Retrieved 4 March 2010. 

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