- Frédéric Boilet
Frédéric Boilet (born
January 16 1960 , inÉpinal ,France ) is a Frenchcartoonist and amangaka .Biography
Frédéric Boilet's debut in comic art was in 1983 with "La Nuit des Archées".
He created "Le Rayon vert" in 1987, followed by "36 15 Alexia" in 1990, two albums where he experimented with a method of working, that is still uniquely his today, in which he resorts almost exclusively to photographs and video.
His encounter with
Benoît Peeters in 1990 turned his work toward semi-autobiographical stories tinged with humour : "Love Hotel" (1993), "Tôkyô est mon jardin" (1997) and "Demi-tour" (1997).Today, Frédéric Boilet lives in
Japan where "Tôkyô est mon jardin" was translated in 1998 and "Demi-tour" the following year. He started doing work formanga magazine s in the late nineties, and is a rare example of a westerncomics artist having some degree of success in the Japanese market.In 2001, on the occasion of the simultaneous publication in France and Japan of the critically-acclaimed "Yukiko's Spinach", he launched the Nouvelle Manga movement in Tokyo, which seeks to combine mature sophisticated daily life
manga with the artistic style of traditionalFranco-Belgian comics .His latest album "Mariko Parade", a collaboration with the manga artist
Kan Takahama , was published inFrance andJapan in 2003.Bibliography
In English
*"Yukiko's Spinach" (Fanfare /
Ponent Mon , 2003)
*"Mariko Parade" - withKan Takahama (Fanfare /Ponent Mon , 2004)In French
*"La Nuit des Archées" - with
Guy Deffeyes (Bayard Presse , 1983)
*"Les Veines de l'Occident" Vol.1, "la Fille des Ibères" - withRené Durand (Glénat, 1985)
*"Les Veines de l'Occident" Vol.2, "le Cheval-démon" - withRené Durand (Glénat, 1988)
*"Le Rayon vert" (Magic Strip , 1987)
*"36 15 Alexia" (Les Humanoïdes Associés , 1990 /Ego comme X , 2004)
*"Love Hotel" - withBenoît Peeters andJiro Taniguchi (Casterman , 1993 /Ego comme X , 2005)
*"Tôkyô est mon jardin" (Casterman , 1997, 2003)
*"Demi-tour" - withBenoît Peeters andEmmanuel Guibert (Dupuis , 1997)
*"L'Épinard de Yukiko" (Ego comme X , 2001)
*"Mariko Parade" - withKan Takahama (Casterman , 2003)
*"L'Apprenti Japonais" (Les Impressions Nouvelles , 2006)In Japanese
*「東京は僕の庭」("Tôkyô wa boku no niwa") - with
Benoît Peeters andJiro Taniguchi (Kôrinsha , 1998)
*「恋愛漫画ができるまで」("Ren'ai manga ga dekiru made") - withBenoît Peeters andEmmanuel Guibert (Bijutsu Shuppansha , 1999)
*「ゆき子のホウレン草」("Yukiko no hôrensô") (Ohta Shuppan , 2001)
*「まり子パラード」("Mariko Parade") - withKan Takahama (Ohta Shuppan , 2003)External links
* [http://www.boilet.net/ Official website]
** fr [http://www.boilet.net/fr/sommaire.html Boilet.Net in French]
* [http://www.popimage.com/content/viewnews.cgi?newsid1077089884,39827, YUKIKO'S SPINACH Reviewed at PopImage] - Reviewed, Plus Preview Pages
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