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Michel Matly, born in 1952 in Dompierre-sur-Besbre, is a polytechnic engineer, researcher and essayist on comics.

Biography
Michel Matly is a engineer from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, 1975), statistician-economist (ENSAE, Paris, 1977), PHD in litterature (UCA, 2016) and associate researcher at the Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique (CELIS) ​​of the University of Clermont Auvergne (France) since 2012.

Once over his professional activity, he dedicated himself to the study of comics and in particular comics in Spanish language. He is the designer in 2016 and the co-coordinator of the Academic Platform on Comics in Spanish Language (PACE).

Michel Matly has written a theoretical work on comics, La fonction de la bande dessinée (PUBP, 2018), translated into Spanish under the title La funcion del comic (Tebeosfera, 2020).

He has written a book on the Spanish civil war (1936-39) published in Spain (El comic sobre la Guerra Civil, Cátedra, 2018) and in France (La guerre civile espagnole & la bande dessinée, PUBP, 2020).

Publications

 * La fonction de la bande dessinée, Clermont-Ferrand, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2018. Cover Paco Roca.
 * El cómic sobre la Guerra Civil, Madrid, Cátedra, 2018. Cover Andrés Rábago García (El Roto).
 * La función del cómic, Sevilla, Tebeosfera, 2020. Cover Jochen Gerner, prologue Éric Dacheux.
 * La guerre civile espagnole & la bande dessinée, Clermont-Ferrand, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2020. Cover Jordi Longarón i Llopart, prologue Viviane Alary.
 * Narrativa gráfica de la Guerra Civil - Perspectivas globales y particulares, León, Grafikalismos, 2020. Work co-edited with Viviane Alary, proceedings of an international conference held in November 2016 at the Centre International de la Bande dessinée et de l’Image (CIBDI, Angoulême, France). Cover M.