Frank Giroud
Frank Giroud (born May 3, 1956 in Toulouse - † July 13, 2018 ) was a French comic book scenarist.
life and work
Frank Giroud won a writing competition when he was 10, but his parents insisted on vocational training. He studied history at the École nationale des chartes , taught for a while and worked as a tour guide, among other things. In the late 1970s he began to write again and from 1982 Louis la Guigne (dt. Louis Lerouge, with the illustrator Jean-Paul Dethorey) his first comic series. In the German-speaking world, he is best known for the series Quintett (each of the five volumes with a different artist), The Triumph of St. Waldemar with Brada and Ten Commandments , published by comicplus + . For this ten-volume series, too, he worked with a different illustrator for each volume. It is about the (fictional) "Ten Commandments of Islam" that the Prophet Mohammed wrote on the shoulder bone of a camel. The story is told backwards; it begins in Glasgow in 2001 and ends in Medina in 622 . It was continued with Ten Commandments: The Legacy (five volumes with Joseph Béhé ). In 2013, Finix Comics also published a special volume on the Ten Commandments in German , entitled The Eleventh Commandment .
The many illustrators Giroud worked with include Ab'Aigre , Rubén Pellejero , Magda Seron , and Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, among others .
Awards
In 1999 he and Lax were awarded the Grand Prix de la critique at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême for the first volume of Azrayen .
In 2002 he received the Max and Moritz Prize as “best international scenarioist” in Erlangen .
Web links
- Giroud Frank. Glénat (French).
- Frank Giroud. In: Lambiek . July 15, 2018(English).
- Search for person: Frank Giroud. Overview of albums published in German in the German Comic Guide
Individual evidence
- ^ BD: l'auteur Frank Giroud (Le Décalogue) est mort à 62 ans. In: Le Progrès. July 14, 2018, accessed on July 15, 2018 (French).
- ↑ a b Frank Giroud. In: Lambiek . July 15, 2018, accessed July 15, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Giroud Frank. (No longer available online.) Glénat , archived from the original on July 15, 2018 ; accessed on July 15, 2018 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ François Righi: Grands Prix de la Critique 1999. Association des critiques et des journalistes de bande dessinée (ACBD), December 12, 2006, accessed on July 15, 2018 (French).
- ↑ Max-und-Moritz-Preis 2002. Association of comics (ICOM), February 3, 2012, accessed on July 15, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Giroud, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French comic book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toulouse |
| DATE OF DEATH | 13th July 2018 |