Yves Swolfs

Yves Swolfs (born April 25, 1955 in Brussels ) is a Belgian comic book author and illustrator. He created, among other things, the western series Durango and the vampire epic The Prince of the Night .

Swolfs studied journalism and took the comics course at the Institut Saint-Luc , which he graduated with a diploma. In 1980 the first volume of his series about the Wild West hero Durango was published by Les Archers , which he also drew himself up to the 13th volume in 1998. In 1988 Glénat started his work Dampierre , which takes place at the time of the French Revolution and was drawn by him up to the third volume. One of his fully written and drawn work is the vampire epic Le prince de la Nuit (Eng. The Prince of the Night ), a completed series published by Glénat between 1994 and 2001.

Yves Swolf is also the author of the dystopian science fiction series Vlad ; the Black Hills western series, which began in 2000 ; the fantasy series Légende (from 2003); as well as other works.

Works (selection, status 2018)

Durango (from 1980) so far 17 volumes with various publishers, in German from 1984, drawings from volume 14 by Thierry Girod
Dampierre (from 1988) so far 10 volumes by Glénat, not published in German, drawings by Pierre Legein , among others

The Prince of the Night (1994-2001) Original title Le prince de la Nuit , in German from 1995

Vlad (2000–2006) drawings by Griffo , in German from 2000

Black Hills (1999–2003) Original title Black Hills 1890 , the draftsman Marc-Renier was also an author from 2005, German from 2000

James Healer (2002–2004) Drawings by Giulio de Vita

Legende (from 2003) published by Soleil Productions , in German from 2004

Lonesome (from 2018) is published by Spltter Verlag

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personal data
SURNAME	Swolfs, Yves
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian comic book author and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	April 25, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Brussels