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