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Lewis Trondheim
Laurent Chabosy (French: [ʃabɔzi]; born 11 December 1964), better known as Lewis Trondheim (French pronunciation: [lewis tʁɔ̃dɛm]), is a French cartoonist and one of the founders (in 1990) of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic La Mouche and Kaput & Zösky have been made into animated cartoons.
A figure in Franco-Belgian comics whose career began in the early 1990s, Trondheim is mostly known as the author of Les formidables aventures de Lapinot (translated to English as The Spiffy Adventures of McConey) and the co-creator of comic fantasy series Dungeon with Joann Sfar, as well as his autobiographical series Les petits riens (translated to English as Little Nothings).
As an artist, Trondheim is known for his "potato-shaped" characters and anthropomorphic animals, in a minimalistic style reminiscent of ligne claire. His works often feature witty dialogue and characters in surreal or darkly humorous situations, where comedy may intertwine with tragedy. Working with several genres such as fantasy, the supernatural, experimental, autobiographical, or children's stories, Trondheim has contributed to more than 150 books, both as an artist and a writer.
Lewis Trondheim was first known as the author of Les formidables aventures de Lapinot. He invented the character in the late 1980s as a way to learn cartooning. The result was an initial 500 page graphic novel, Lapinot et les carottes de Patagonie. All the while, he was publishing short stories for the satirical French magazine Psikopat.
After his book Slaloms was awarded what was then called the Alph'Art Coup de coeur (First comic book prize) in 1993, Trondheim was offered to bring his burgeoning series to a major publisher, Dargaud, while he continued churning out more personal books for L'Association and other independent French publishers such as Cornélius. From there onwards, Trondheim began to enjoy a steady rise in popularity.
The following years represented a period of increasing activity, as Trondheim began to work on many different projects. He first created La Mouche ("The Fly") for the Japanese market, and then redrew a French version from scratch, after which the character was adapted as an animated cartoon.
Trondheim's saw further success following Lapinot in Dungeon (in French, Donjon), a series created alongside Joann Sfar.
In 2004, after a long and intensive period during which he steadily released new books at a frantic pace, Lewis Trondheim announced he was more or less retiring from the world of comic strips, stating he did not want his passion to become a "job". He did draw and write a few stories within the following year, including a book reflecting on his decision to slow down, though the releases occurred at a much slower pace.[citation needed]
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Lewis Trondheim
Laurent Chabosy (French: [ʃabɔzi]; born 11 December 1964), better known as Lewis Trondheim (French pronunciation: [lewis tʁɔ̃dɛm]), is a French cartoonist and one of the founders (in 1990) of the independent publisher L'Association. Both his silent comic La Mouche and Kaput & Zösky have been made into animated cartoons.
A figure in Franco-Belgian comics whose career began in the early 1990s, Trondheim is mostly known as the author of Les formidables aventures de Lapinot (translated to English as The Spiffy Adventures of McConey) and the co-creator of comic fantasy series Dungeon with Joann Sfar, as well as his autobiographical series Les petits riens (translated to English as Little Nothings).
As an artist, Trondheim is known for his "potato-shaped" characters and anthropomorphic animals, in a minimalistic style reminiscent of ligne claire. His works often feature witty dialogue and characters in surreal or darkly humorous situations, where comedy may intertwine with tragedy. Working with several genres such as fantasy, the supernatural, experimental, autobiographical, or children's stories, Trondheim has contributed to more than 150 books, both as an artist and a writer.
Lewis Trondheim was first known as the author of Les formidables aventures de Lapinot. He invented the character in the late 1980s as a way to learn cartooning. The result was an initial 500 page graphic novel, Lapinot et les carottes de Patagonie. All the while, he was publishing short stories for the satirical French magazine Psikopat.
After his book Slaloms was awarded what was then called the Alph'Art Coup de coeur (First comic book prize) in 1993, Trondheim was offered to bring his burgeoning series to a major publisher, Dargaud, while he continued churning out more personal books for L'Association and other independent French publishers such as Cornélius. From there onwards, Trondheim began to enjoy a steady rise in popularity.
The following years represented a period of increasing activity, as Trondheim began to work on many different projects. He first created La Mouche ("The Fly") for the Japanese market, and then redrew a French version from scratch, after which the character was adapted as an animated cartoon.
Trondheim's saw further success following Lapinot in Dungeon (in French, Donjon), a series created alongside Joann Sfar.
In 2004, after a long and intensive period during which he steadily released new books at a frantic pace, Lewis Trondheim announced he was more or less retiring from the world of comic strips, stating he did not want his passion to become a "job". He did draw and write a few stories within the following year, including a book reflecting on his decision to slow down, though the releases occurred at a much slower pace.[citation needed]
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