Alain Auderset

Alain Auderset

Alain Auderset being interviewed at Le Festival de la BD francophone in Québec City, QC, Canada, in 2010
Born Alain Auderset
October 27, 1968
Grenchen, Switzerland
Nationality Swiss
Area(s) Cartoonist, Writer, Penciller, Artist, Inker, Publisher, Letterer, Colourist
Notable works
 Willy Grunch
Marcel
ROBI

Alain Auderset is a Swiss Christian author of bandes dessinées (Franco-Belgian comics) and is best known for his comics albums Willy Grunch, Marcel, and ROBI.

Biography

Born on October 27, 1968 in Grenchen, Switzerland, Auderset was converted to Christianity after reading the French comic magazine Tournesol as a child.[1] Later, passionate for drawing, he studied graphic arts and began to draw comic strips. In 2001 he released his first book, Conventional Wisdom, which has been translated into six additional languages (German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Danish) since it was originally published in French.

His books ROBI (2005) and Willy Grunch (2008) have both won the International Prize for French Language Christian Comics at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.[2] Currently Auderset is self-publishing and claims he has sold approximately 110,000 copies of all his books.

Auderset is also a performance artist as well as a guitarist for the band Saahsal in which his wife Eliane is the lead singer. Since 2010 Auderset has been doing a stand-up comedy routine entitled "The Non-practicing Atheist," touring both in Europe and the Canadian province of Québec.[3][4] During his last Québec tour in 2013 he was interviewed during a service at a church in Drummondville, QC, which was broadcast live through their website.[5] He was also interviewed on CKZW radio in Montreal.

In 2012 Moondog Animation Studio in Charleston, South Carolina raised US$117,534.00 through a crowd funding campaign on Kickstarter to produce five pilot episodes of The life and trials of Willy Grunch, based on Auderset's stories and art. The five pilots were completed and released in early 2013, and further episodes are slated to begin production in late 2016 as part of an additional Kickstarter project.

Currently Auderset lives in Saint-Imier with his wife and their four children.

Bibliography

Prizes

References

  1. ↑ Story related inTournesol issue #373, 2011
  2. ↑ A Angoulême, Alain Auderset reçoit pour la deuxième fois le Prix international de la BD chrétienne francophone
  3. ↑ "Athée non pratiquant - Le one man show d'Alain Auderset"
  4. ↑ "Alain Auderset - Athée non pratiquant"
  5. ↑ Témoingnage d’Alain Auderset
  6. ↑ ICCC2 People's Choice Voting Awards: Professional Division
  7. ↑ 2008 CCI News Archives: Artist Auderset Always Active
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