Christian Rossi (comic artist)

Christian Rossi (born December 31, 1954 in Saint-Denis ) is a French comic artist .

After studying art at L'École Estienne in Paris , he made his debut with short stories in the youth magazine Formule 1 , then he drew for the magazine Circus , Gomma! and L´Écho des savanes and had their first album releases with Glénat with the series Frédéric Joubert . At the beginning of the 1980s, he created the western series Le Chariot de Thespis (German: Der Coverwagen des Thespis ) with the scenographer Philippe Bonifay and the three-volume comic novel Les Errances de Julius Antoine (German: The confusion of Julius Antoine ) with the copywriter Serge Le Tendre ).

Rossi took over the western series Jim Cutlass from Jean Giraud from volume 2 onwards in the early 1990s , but Giraud remained as a copywriter in the following volumes. At the same time Rossi produced the thriller Le Cycle des deux horizons (German: The cycle of two horizons ) for the copywriter Pierre Makyo . In the 2000s he drew the history comic Tirésias and the western series WEST

Albums

• The covered wagon of Thespis (4 albums, Adlib / Feest / Piredda, 1987-2010)
• The Confusion of Julius Antoine (3 albums, Carlsen, 1989–1990)
• Jim Cutlass (Vol. 2–7, Carlsen / Kult / Splitter, 1992–2017)
• The cycle of the two horizons (3 albums, Carlsen, 1992–1993)
• WEST (5 albums, Ehapa / Piredda, since 2005)
• Deadline (Splitter, 2014)
• The Heart of the Amazons (Splitter 2018)

Web links

• Christian Rossi at piredda-verlag.de
• Christian Rossi at comicguide.de
• Christian Rossi at lambiek.net