Achdé

Achdé 2007 in Finland

Achdé 2012 at the Frankfurt Book Fair while signing an autograph card

Achdé [ aʃde ] (actually Hervé Darmenton [ ɛʁve daʁmɑtɔ ] * thirtieth July 1961 in Lyon ) is a French comic - artist . The nickname "Achdé" is derived from the French pronunciation of the initials of his name.

Achdé has been recording the albums in the Lucky Luke series since Morris's death .

Life

Achdé bought his first comic album when he was nine years old: "Lucky Luke contre Phil Defer". He has been active as a comic artist since the mid-1980s.

Since 1993 he has designed the CRS = Détresse series for Dargaud - a series of gags about the Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité , of which 13 albums were made by 2007. Raoul Cauvin has been writing the scenarios since the eighth album . In addition, the gag series Doc Véto (three volumes) about a veterinarian based on texts by Christian Godard was created for Dargaud .

In 1997 the publication " Uderzo : Drawn by his friends", a homage to the Asterix drawer, was published. Achdé wrote a two-page short story about this. In 1999 the Lucky Luke counterpart "Hommage à Morris" was released. Achdé was one of the cartoonists of this volume at the time and wrote the four-page story "Lucky Luke et Machine Gun Kid". Well-known characters such as Hank Bully, Waldo Badmington or the Daltons as well as the illustrator “Maurice Morris” and Bonny Dan, the cousin of Billy the Kid, are used.

After Morris' death in 2001, a follow-up artist for the Lucky Luke series was sought . He was found in Achdé. A few small things may appear new or modified, but most of them are part of the established tradition. He celebrated his successful Lucky Luke debut with “The French Chef”. Claude Guylouis wrote the text for this . In 2004 he released the first complete album: “Schikane in Quebec ” (in the French original: La Belle Province) , produced together with his friend, the scenarioist Laurent Gerra .

Achdé lives in south-west France with his wife and two sons.

Publications in German

• Lucky Luke - The French Chef (2003) - Book in landscape format (Ehapa Comic Collection) Drawings: Achdé, Text: Claude Guylouis , ISBN 3-7704-0124-7
• Lucky Luke Vol. 77 - Schikane in Quebec (2004) - A4 hardcover or softcover (Ehapa Comic Collection) Drawings: Achdé, text: Laurent Gerra , ISBN 978-3-7704-0288-5
• Lucky Luke Vol. 80 - The Daltons in the Sling (2007) - A4 hardcover or softcover (Ehapa Comic Collection) Drawings: Achdé, Text: Laurent Gerra , ISBN 978-3-7704-3118-2
• Lucky Luke Vol. 84 - The Man from Washington (2009) - A4 hardcover or softcover (Ehapa Comic Collection) Drawings: Achdé, Text: Laurent Gerra , ISBN 978-3-7704-3283-7
• Lucky Luke Vol. 88 - Lucky Luke versus Pinkerton (2011) - A4 hardcover or softcover (Ehapa Comic Collection) Drawings: Achdé, Text: Daniel Pennac , Tonino Benacquista , ISBN 978-3-7704-3407-7
• Lucky Luke Vol. 89 - Lucky Kid (2011) - A4 hardcover or softcover (Ehapa Comic Collection) Drawings and text: Achdé ISBN 978-3-7704-3820-4
• Lucky Luke Vol. 90 - On your own (2013) - A4 hardcover or softcover (Ehapa Comic Collection) Drawings: Achdé Text: Daniel Pennac , Tonino Benacquista ISBN 978-3-7704-3567-8
• Lucky Luke Vol. 91 Ein starker Lurf (2014) - A4 hardcover or softcover (Ehapa Comic Collection) drawings and text: Achdé, ISBN 978-3-7704-3765-8
• Lucky Luke vol. 92 A menu with blue beans (2014) A4 hardcover or softcover (Ehapa Comic Collection) Drawings: Achdé, Morris Text: Laurent Gerra, René Goscinny , Dom Domi , Claude Guylouis ISBN 978-3-7704-3838-9
• Lucky Luke Vol. 93 My Uncle, the Daltons (2015) A4 hardcover or softcover (Egmont Comic Collection) Drawings: Achdé Text: Jacques Pessis, Laurent Gerra ISBN 978-3-7704-3860-0
• Lucky Luke Vol. 94 Martha Pfahl (2016) A4 hardcover or softcover (Egmont Comic Collection) Drawings and text: Achdé ISBN 978-3-7704-3919-5
• Lucky Luke Vol. 95 The Promised Land (2017) A4 hardcover or softcover (Egmont Comic Collection) Drawings: Achdé Text: Jul ISBN 978-3-7704-3924-9
• Lucky Luke Vol. 96 Mitten ins Schwarze (2018) A4 hardcover or softcover (Egmont Comic Collection) Drawings and text: Achdé, ISBN 978-3-7704-3988-1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lambiek: Achdé
2. ↑ bedetheque: Achdé

Web links

• Literature by and about Achdé in the catalog of the German National Library
• www.incos-ev.de
• Achdés second Lucky Luke in Germany