Pierre-Henry Gomont (born in 1978) is a French comics creator.
After doing various works, Gomont debuted as a comics creator in the 2010 anthology 13m28. His first full album as an artist was Kirkenes, which was written by Jonathan Châtel and published in 2011.
For the 2016 album Pereira prétend , an adaptation of Antonio Tabucchi's novel Pereira Maintains , Gomont received the Grand prix RTL de la bande dessinée . [1] He received the same award for Malaterre from 2018. His trilogy Slava, about a female painter in Russia in the 1990s, was published in 2022 to 2024. [2] [3] [4]
The Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême is a lifetime achievement award given annually during the Angoulême International Comics Festival to a comics author. Although not a monetary award, it is considered the most prestigious award in Franco-Belgian comics.
Juanjo Guarnido is a Spanish illustrator and the co-author of the comic book series Blacksad.
The Prix Saint-Michel is a series of comic awards presented by the city of Brussels, with a focus on Franco-Belgian comics. They were first awarded in 1971, and although often said to be the oldest European comics awards, they are actually the second oldest comics award in Europe still presented, behind the Adamson Awards. Their history is quite erratic though, with a long pause between 1986 and 2002.
Raoul Cauvin was a Belgian comics author and one of the most popular in the humorist field.
Pereira Maintains is a 1994 novel by the Italian writer Antonio Tabucchi. It is also known as Pereira Declares and Declares Pereira. Its story follows Pereira, a journalist for the culture column of a small Lisbon newspaper, as he struggles with his conscience and the restrictions of the dictatorial regime of Antonio Salazar. Antonio Tabucchi won the Premio Campiello, Viareggio Prize and Premio Scanno in 1994 for the novel. It was adapted into a film, also called Sostiene Pereira, in 1996. It was the basis for the French comic book Pereira prétend, made by Pierre-Henry Gomont and published in 2016.
The Angoulême International Comics Festival is the second largest comics festival in Europe after the Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the third biggest in the world after Lucca Comics & Games and the Comiket of Japan. It has occurred every year since 1974 in Angoulême, France, on the last week end of January.
Catel Muller, who publishes under the name Catel, is a French comic book artist and illustrator.
Hubert Boulard was a French comics writer and colorist usually credited mononymously as "Hubert".
Babelio is a French social cataloging website and a mobile app dedicated to literature. It is a social network for users to review books and generate personal library catalogs, which can be shared and commented on by other users.
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Pereira prétend is a 2016 French comic book by Pierre-Henry Gomont. Set in Lisbon in 1938, it is about the meeting between a conservative cultural journalist and a freelance journalist who favours left-wing authors. The book is based on the 1994 novel Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi.
The Sea Wolf is a comic book by the French writer and artist Riff Reb's. It is based on Jack London's novel The Sea-Wolf and was published by Soleil on 31 October 2012.
Aurélia Aurita is the pseudonym of the French bande dessinée album author, Hakchenda Khun. Her pseudonym is the scientific name of a species of jellyfish, Aurelia aurita.