Blexbolex

Bernard Granger
Born 1966 (age 4950)
Douai, France
Nationality French
Area(s) Cartoonist, illustrator
Pseudonym(s) Blexbolex
Awards Best Book Design (Book Fair of Leipzig)

Blexbolex (born 1966[1]) is a French comics artist and illustrator. Born Bernard Granger in Douai, he studied screen printing (sérigraphie) at the School of Fine Arts (L’école européenne supérieure de l'image) in Angoulême. His first works were self-published, and later he contributed to Popo Color, Fusée, and Ferraille. His highly stylized, ligne claire illustration, inspired by the films of Jacques Tati and whodunits of the 1950s and 1960s, gradually gained an audience. In Germany, he directed an art studio at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee (School of Art and Design Berlin-Weissensee)[2] and he also worked regularly with a number of editors, including Thierry Magnier, Pipifax, United Dead Artists, Les Requins-Marteaux, and Cornélius. Blexbolex has contributed to the American publication The Ganzfeld.

In 2009, he received a prize for “Best Book Design of the World” for his L'Imagier des gens (2008) at the Book Fair of Leipzig.

Works

Children’s books

Graphic novels

Other

References

  1. http://lambiek.net/artists/b/blexbolex.htm
  2. La Gazette du comptoir : bulletin d'information du comptoir des indépendants, janvier-février 2009, n° 76.
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