Serge Le Tendre

Serge Le Tendre (born 1 December 1946) is a French comics writer known from his collaborations with Régis Loisel, Pierre Makyo, Christian Rossi and TaDuc. He wrote a number of series together with Rodolphe.

Biography
Serge Le Tendre was born in 1946 in Vincennes, near Paris, in France. When he was 16, he started working as an assistant-accountant but two years later he started following the comics lessons at the university, delivered by artists and scholars like Jean-Claude Mézières, Jean Giraud, and Claude Moliterni. Fellow students included Régis Loisel and André Juillard. By 1974, he was writing short comics stories for artists like Annie Goetzinger and Dominique Hé, which appeared in Pilote and other magazines. In 1975 he created La Quête de l'oiseau du temps with Loisel, which first appeared in Imagine; it was restarted in Charlie Mensuel in 1982 and appeared in album format from the next year onwards. In 1984 he co-created the first two albums of Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche for Pierre Makyo.

Awards

 * 1985: won the Award of the Public at the Prix Saint-Michel for Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche
 * 1986: won the Lucien award at the Angoulême festival for La Quête de l'oiseau du temps
 * 1986: Prix Yellow-Kid for best foreign artist
 * 1999: Angoulême International Comics Festival Prix Jeunesse 9–12 ans for La Quête de l'oiseau du temps
 * 2002: nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album for Tirésias
 * 2002: Prix Bob Morane for Tirésias
 * 2004: nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize Awarded by the Audience for Mister George