User:Auteur.christopher

Christopher (real name: Christopher Longé) was born in Middlesbrough (UK) in 1969. He grew up in southern France, Gréasque, near Aix-en-Provence. After graduation, he moved to Paris to study Applied Arts. He subsequently worked as a graphic designer / illustrator (Canal +, La Poste, Quick, Danone, Nova ...) before getting into comics.

In 1994 he created the character of David Watts, a pedestrian in a lunar dream of Paris alongside famous characters (Charles Darwin, Tolstoï, Kurt Cobain, Woody Allen, Oscar Wilde, Nefertiti…). To publicize his unfinished tales, he founded la comédie illustrée. Soon joined by Jean-Philippe Peyraud, Jean-Paul Jennequin, Philippe Marcel, Massonnet and Philippe De La Fuente, self-publishing became a collectivity of authors…

Alongside his work as an author/editor, he published in various fanzines (Scarce, Le Goinfre, Beurk, Stereoscomic…) and various micro publishers (Treize étrange, Petit à petit). Then he worked at the Atelier des Vosges, alongside Christophe Blain, Joann Sfar ...

In 1999, at the same time as he moved to Tours, Christopher began a new series : Les filles (Girls). Pyjama Party, the first volume was a great success. It tells the story of five girlfriends, students in Tours. This album marked a turning point in his career, since it was his first book in color and he began to be edited by major publishers. The Girls series was then pulished by the Editions Carabas after the first two titles (Pyjama party, Papier Peint) were sold out. He published  with the comédie illustrée Les Irrécupérables (The Irremediables),  which is a succession of gags about the world of role play written by Mehdi Sahmi for the magazine Casus Belli.

In Tours, he created the Atelier Pop with 6 other designers (Philippe Masson, Eric Derian, Ullcer, Sandrine Lemoult, Philippe Larbier and Antoine Aubin) and he supervised the collective editions Chacun son Tours and Tours à Tours'-.

In 2004, he left the Atelier Pop to start the Atelier Cachalot with his old friend Philippe De La Fuente. That year he published All I Need Is Love edited by Panini, stating his preference for the stories of everyday life.

In 2005, he signed the new Dupuis's collection Espresso for a series called Les colocataires (The roommates) with Sylvain Runberg.

In 2006, he wrote Love Song, a series in the collection Polyptyque Editions du Lombard. Series particularly noticed by the critics, because it shows a deeper side of the universe and black of the author. Love Song recounts the friendship between four rock fans amid songs of the sixties. The covers of his books evoke, in turn, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, The Kinks and The Who. Series that allow the author to tell his passion for music, his love for England and his fascination with human relationships.

His passion for music is also for collective work published by Delcourt (Yannick Noah, Bob Dylan,.. A vous Cognac Jay.).

He does not abandon the figure, which allows him to "breathe " between albums (Cosmopolitan, la Nouvelle république...). One can also see a mural of 12 meters within the Tours Tourist Office. In 2010, he set up the Atelier Bayadère with his partner Sandrine Godin and he published editions of the Boreas, "The Case of the Papin Sisters" from a screenplay by Julian Moca. He also teaches the art of scenario at the Brassart School in Tours and comes at the Faculty of Philosophy of Tours, EPAC (Switzerland), School of Visual Arts (New York). Actually, amongst all his works, we can talk about a graphic novel about the Beatles for Vent d'Ouest publisher and the creation of Yellow Kid, an international school of visuals and narratives arts in Blois.

Christopher, a prolific author, is a keen observer of his fellows, telling in a subtle and pleasing way the human comedy woes.