Christophe Chabouté


Christophe Chabouté, is a French comics artist.

Biography

Chabouté was born on born 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 Tout Seul '', which is translated into English by Ivanka Hahnenberger, is considered his masterpiece.

Works

Albums

  1. Livre 1, 2003
  2. Livre 2, 2004
  3. Livre 3, 2005
Un peu de bois et d'acier was adapted into a silent black and white 45-minutes short film directed by Antonin Le Guay in 2014. It was partly funded through the crowfunding 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