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 and other magazines. In 1975 he created with Loisel, which first appeared in ; it was restarted in in 1982 and appeared in album format from the next year onwards. In 1984 he co-created the first two albums of for Pierre Makyo.

Bibliography

The years given are for the album publications, not for magazine prepublications. All works in French unless otherwise noted.

• Chinaman (1997–2007), 9 parts, with TaDuc (published in English by Europe Comics)
• (1993), 1 part, with Rodolphe and Antonio Parras
• (1987), 1 part, with Christian Rossi
• (1985–1989), 3 parts, with Christian Rossi
• (1996–2002), 2 parts, with Christian Rossi
• (2012–2015), 4 parts, with Jérôme Lereculey
• White Claw (2013–2015), 3 parts, with TaDuc
• (2000-), 3 parts, with Servain
• (2015), 1 part, with Guillaume Sorel
• (1985), 2 parts with Pierre Makyo and Alain Dodier
• (1993–1995), 4 parts, with Dieter and Jean-Denis Pendanx
• (2004–2012), 5 parts, with Franck Biancarelli
• Mission Vietnam (2003), 1 part, with Patrick Jusseaume and Jean-Charles Kraehn
• Mister George (2003), 2 parts, with Rodolphe and Hugues Labiano
• (1992), 1 part, with Jean-Paul Dethorey
• (2011–2012), 2 parts, with Laurent Gnoni
• (1991–1994), 4 parts, with Pascale Rey (originally in Spanish)
• The Bleiberg Project (2017-), 3 parts, with Frédéric Peynet
• The Quest for the Time Bird (1983–2017), 9 parts, with Régis Loisel, Mohamed Aouamri and Vincent Mallié
• (1987–1997), 7 parts, with Rodolphe and Jean-Luc Serrano
• (1985), 1 part, with Fabien Lacaf
• Terminus 1 (2016), 2 parts, with Jean-Michel Ponzio
• (2001), 2 parts, with Christian Rossi
• (2014–2015), 2 parts, with Frédéric Peynet
• (1987–1996), 5 parts, with Emiliano Simeoni and TaDuc

Awards

• 1985: won the Award of the Public at the for
• 1986: won the Lucien award at the Angoulême festival for
• 1986: Prix Yellow-Kid for best foreign artist
• 1999: Angoulême International Comics Festival Prix Jeunesse 9–12 ans for
• 2002: nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album for
• 2002: Prix Bob Morane for
• 2004: nominated for the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize Awarded by the Audience for

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