Christophe Chabouté


Christophe Chabouté is a French comics artist.

Biography

Chabouté was born on February 8, 1967; he is of Alsatian heritage. Chabouté attended Fine Arts courses in Angoulême and Strasbourg. The publishing house Vents d'Ouest published his first pieces in 1993 in Les Récits, a collective album about Arthur Rimbaud. But Chabouté became best known in 1998 by publishing Sorcières by Éditions du Téméraire and Quelques jours d'été by Editions Paquet. He has also illustrated novels for young people. His work Alone, which is translated into English by Ivanka Hahnenberger, is considered his masterpiece.

Works

Albums

  • Sorcières, Le Téméraire, 1998
  • Quelques jours d'été, éditions Paquet, 1998
  • Zoé, collection Intégra, Vents d'Ouest, 1999
  • Pleine lune, collection Intégra, Vents d'Ouest, 2000
  • Un îlot de bonheur, Paquet, 2001
  • La bête, collection Intégra, Vents d'Ouest, 2002
  • Purgatoire, collection Equinoxe, Vents d'Ouest
  1. Livre 1, 2003
  2. Livre 2, 2004
  3. Livre 3, 2005
  • Henri Désiré Landru, collection Intégra, Vents d'Ouest, 2006
  • To Build a Fire , collection Equinoxe, Vents d'Ouest, 2007 – After the 1907 short story by Jack London – Prix Cognac du Meilleur Album "One Shot" 2008
  • Alone,'' Vents d'Ouest, 2008 –
  • Terre-Neuvas, collection Intégra, Vents d'Ouest, 2009
  • Fables Amères, De Tout Petits Riens, Vents d'Ouest, 2010
  • Princesses aussi vont au petit coin , Vents d'Ouest, 2011
  • The [Park Bench (comic book)|The Park Bench] , Vents d'Ouest, 2012
  • Moby Dick, Vents d'Ouest – After the 1851 novel by Herman Melville
  1. Livre Premier, 2014
  2. Livre Second, 2014
  • Fables amères, Détails futiles, Vents d'Ouest, 2019
  • Yellow Cab, Vents d'Ouest, 2021 – After the book by Benoît Cohen
  • Musée, Vents d'Ouest and Musée d'Orsay, 2023
  • Plus loin qu'ailleurs, Vents d'Ouest, 2025

    Illustrations

  • La chute du corbeau, écrit par Jean-Charles Bernardini, Mango Jeunesse, coll Le cercle magique, 2003

    Adaptations

The Park Bench was adapted into a silent black and white 45-minutes film directed by Antonin Le Guay in 2014. It was partly funded through the crowdfunding platform Kiss Kiss Bank Bank from 2 to 27 June 2014. The funding ended on 134%.
The French music group L'Étrange K and the association Scènes occupation signed in April 2016 an adaptation of the same Chabouté comic strip in "BD-concert".

Awards