Andreas (of its true name Andreas Martens ) is a Scénariste and Dessinateur of Cartoon, born the January 3rd 1951 with Weißenfels, in Germany.

Biography

After having lived with Weißenfels where it was born, Andreas moves for Düsseldorf in 1965. In 1972, missing the date by the inscriptions of the Institute Saint-Luc with Brussels, it begins its artistic studies with the Academy of the Art schools of Düsseldorf. It will spend one year there.

It is thus 1973 qu ' Andreas free Germany to go in Belgium in order to study there, during three years, at the Saint-Luc Institute. He meets there Philippe Berthet, Antonio Cossu and Philippe Foerster with which he will work in workshop in 1977. As of the second year of study, it follows in parallel, the courses of Eddy Paape with the Academy of Saint-Gilles during two years. It is Jijé which chairs its Final Board Saint-Luc.

In 1978 it passes in France, initially for Paris then Saint-Brieuc (1982) and finally Rennes (1995).

It begins by taking part in the reviews (To be followed), the Newspaper of Tintin and Métal Howling.

In 1978 it creates the character of Rork for the review the Newspaper of Tintin. Its adventures will be taken again in albums in the collection Histoires and legends of the editions Lombard.

Its first album published is posthumous Révélations into 1980 with the Bédérama editions, with François Rivière as scenario writer. It is a collection of the four imaginary stories on the writers H.P. Lovecraft, Agatha Christie, Jules Verne, and Pierre Loti, published in the reviews (To be followed) and using the technique of the Carte to scrape.

In 2001, the Festival of Cartoon Quai of the Bubbles of Saint-Malo gave the price to him Dunce's cap .

In 2002, it takes part in the great adventure Donjon chapeautée by Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar by drawing an album of the series Monster in the collection Humor of laughing of the editions Delcourt.

Since 1997 it work mainly on its two plus long series: Capricorn (at least 20 volumes) for the editions of Lombard and Arq (envisaged in 18 volumes) for those of Delcourt.

Since 2001, Andreas delegates the color application of the series Capricorne to Isabelle Cochet. In 2006, the partnership is perennialized, Isabelle Cochet takes part in the drawing of the album Quintos .

Prolific author it published forty albums in 25 years. He can be made the facetious deconstructor of the account with suspense. Owner at bottom the graphic possibilities of his art, pushing narrative constructions and daring cuttings towards a complexity without concession ( Cyrrus-Millet , the red Triangle , X-20 ), Andreas builds a sincere, diverting, but single work sometimes.

He is follower at the same time of Lovecraft, of Edgar Poe and of the black series in the topics which he also approaches but says influenced graphically by Bernie Wrightson, Barry Windsor-Smith or even Alex Toth.

Publications

In album (drawing AND scenario)

*Cycle first
Albums 48 pages, format 23x32 hard-bound, colors (Andreas)
*Tome 1: Elsewhere (September 1997)
*Tome 2: Memories 1 (January 1999)
*Tome 3: Memories 2 (October 1999)
*Tome 4: Racken (October 2000)
*Tome 5: White Dust (May 2001)
*Tome 6: Alarm clock (March 2002)

*Cycle second
Albums 48 pages, format 25x29,8 hard-bound, direct colors (Andreas)

*Tome 7: Dorro Zengu (March 2003)
*Tome 8: Meeting again (January 2005)
*Tome 9: Crossfire (March 2006)
*Tome 10: Tehos (April 2007)
*Tome 11: Main Black (to be appeared in 2008)

to be appeared:

*Cycle third
Albums format 17,5x26,5 hard-bound, black and white
*Tomes 13 to 18.

  • Capricorn (editions Lombard, collection the Third Vagueness)
    Albums 48 pages, format 22,3x30,5 cartonnés.
    Les three first volumes was republished in the collection the Third Vagueness with a new cover in April 1999.

*Cycle first (Colors: Andreas):
*Tome 1: the Object (January 1997)
*Tome 2: Electricity (September 1997)
*Tome 3: Deliah (April 1998)
*Tome 4: the numerical Cube (March 1999)
*Tome 5: the Secrecy (March 2000)

*Cycle second (Colors: Isabelle Cockerel):

*Tome 6: Attack (January 2001)
*Tome 7: the blue Dragon (April 2002)
*Tome 8: Tunnel (February 2003)
*Tome 9: the Passage followed the Fragment (album doubles 104 pages of which short history of 8 pages) (August 2004)

*Cycle third (Colors: Isabelle Cockerel):

*Tome 10: the Chinese (November 2005)
*Tome 11: Patrick (November 2006)
*Tome 12: (November 2007)

  • the Cave of the Memory (editions Lombard, collection Stories and legends, March 1985)
    Album hard-bound format 22,3x29,5, 56 colors pages: Andreas

*Tome 1: Cromwell Stone (editions Sharp-edged Michel, January 1984)
*Tome 2: the Return of Cromwell Stone (November 1994)
Exist also in Pulling of Head drawn format 30,5x40,5 to 950 specimen + serigraphy
*Tome 3: the Will of Cromwell Stone (September 2004)
*Exist out of box gathering the three album. * Cyrrus (November 1984)
* Millet (January 1987)
* Cyrrus-Millet (editions Delcourt, August 1993) (republication in integral, altered and increased by 4 boards)

  • Fantalia (editions Magic Strip, October 1986)
    Album 48 pages, format 24x24 hard-bound, colors: Andreas
    Exist also in Portfolio drawn format 38x38 with 550 specimens + 30 except trade

  • the Messenger (editions Editions Jonas, 1984)
    Portfolio of 10 serigraphies, drawn with 650 specimens, under case, direct colors: Andreas

  • Monster (edition Vonk (Holland), September 1985)
    Album offered flexible format 16x24, black pages and white and two-color printing: Andreas
    Réédition: Delcourt, January 1999. Offered to the purchase of 3 albums of Andreas at Delcourt

  • Raffington Vent - Detective (editions Lombard, collection Stories and legends, March 1989)
    Album 56 pages, format 22,3x29,5 hard-bound, black and white and color: Andreas

  • Rork (editions Lombard, first editions collection Stories and legends)
    Albums hard-bound format 22,3x29,5, color: Andreas

*Tome 0: (to be appeared in 2007)
*Tome 1: Fragments (January 1984, 46 pages) (colors: Anne Delobel)
Réédition increased of 7 illustrations black and white (April 1994)
*Tome 2: Passages , (October 1984, 46 pages) increased
Réédition of 6 boards of summarized in black and white and 1 illustration black and white (April 1992)
Exist in de luxe edition in collection 1/1 of the Editions Jonas, 1983 black format 30x40 and drawn white with 850 specimens + 20 except trade.
*Tome 3: the Cemetery of the cathedrals (January 1988, 46 pages) increased
Réédition of 6 boards colors (September 1992)
*Tome 4: Light of stars (October 1988, 46 pages) increased
Réédition of 6 boards colors (June 1994)
*Tome 5: Capricorn (December 1990, 46 pages) increased
Réédition of 5 illustrations black and white and 3 illustrations direct colors (1992)
*Tome 6: Descent (November 1992)
*Tome 7: Return (October 1993)

*Tome 8: De Vergetenen (edition Sherpa (Holland), 2002)
Album flexible 48 pages, colors direct and black and white format 24,3x32
Contient illustrations on the universe of Rork and two short stories published in the Newspaper of Tintin.

  • the red Triangle (editions Delcourt, October 1995)
    Album 48 pages, format with Italian the 28,5x23 hard-bound, colors: Andreas
    Exist in Pulling of Head published by Bookmaker, with in supplement a short history of 9 pages

In album (drawing OR scenario OR collective)

  • At the dawn of freedom (editions Dargaud, September 1989)
    Album collective 59 pages, hard-bound format 24x32
- History: the 8th prisoner (8 boards, scenario, drawing, direct colors: Andreas) - History without title: (8 boards black and white dumb women, scenario, drawing, Andreas)

  • Drifts (editions Delcourt, May 1991)
    Album 48 pages, hard-bound format 22,5x32, direct colors and colors: Andreas

Contains the stories:
- Tourist (scenario: Ferdinand Scholz),
- Cat (scenario: Gerard Goffaux),
- Extinction (scenario: Philippe Foerster),
- Twilight (scenario: Frederic Bézian),
- Traveller (scenario: Antonio Cossu),
- Puzzle (scenario: Yann) *Tome 3: the major chart (Level 103) (October 2002)

  • Between Cats (editions Delcourt, November 1989) (under the direction of Frank EP)
    Album collective hard-bound, color

- History: the nightmare (3 dumb boards, drawing, scenario, colors direct: Andreas) + two illustration color and black and white.

  • the Delcourt factory has ten years (editions Delcourt, March 1996)
    Album collective 72 pages, format 23x32 hard-bound, black and white

- History without title: (1 board black and white, scenario, drawing: Andreas) *Tome 17: spores of nowhere - Third history: Mission in 2012

  • Mobilis (editions Delcourt, collection Conquistador) (drawing and colors: Christian Durieux)
    Albums 48 pages, format 23x32 hard-bound

*Tome 1: Clashes (February 2000)
*Tome 2: Second Chance (May 2001)
*Tome 3: meticulous Handling (May 2002) - Contain two stories: winter 51 and be 60

  • Norte On (editions Ikusager (Spain), 1989)
    Album collective 80 pages, hard-bound format 24x30,5

- History: El Regreso (8 boards, colors direct: Andreas) Contains the stories:
- Biography of Robert-Howard Barlow (1918-1951) and his relations with H.P.Lovecraft
- Amnesia
- Visitation of Amiens (a new memory of Raymond Roussel)
- the wax woman of the museum Spitzner
- the crime of the mosque (Extracted the newspaper of Alfred J. Nobbe) - History: the time of the reflection (4 boards according to a text of Rachida)

  • Why I love the cartoon (editions Delcourt, September 2006)
    Album 120 pages, format 18x27 flexible, black and white

- History without title: (1 board black and white, scenario, drawing: Andreas) *Tome 1: the watch with the 7 rubies
Reedity with the editions Creation (Bédescope), 1986 colors: J. - P. Rose, increased history of 17 boards the black book of Lucifer

Except album (short Stories published in reviews and ever taken again in album)

  • Schizo (5 pages published in the review 9th dream n°1 in 1978)

  • Chlorophyl against the black rats (according to Raymond Macherot, 2 pages published in the Newspaper of Tintin n°316 in 1981)
  • Linings (scenario of François Rivière, 3 pages published in (TO BE FOLLOWED) Out of the ordinary John Lennon in 1981)
  • the monster… (1 illustration published in the Newspaper of Tintin n°313 in 1981)
  • the workman missing (scenario of Gerard Santi, 4 pages published in the review Viper n°1 in 1981)
  • the pirate (1 board published in Spirou magazine n°2236 in 1981)
  • forgotten the (9 boards published in the Super Tintin n°18 in 1982 with the character of Rork)
  • the mysterious and rocambolesques adventures from the agent spacial (1 board published in the Newspaper of Tintin n°559 in 1986)
  • Let us changeair (3 pages published in (TO BE FOLLOWED) Out of the ordinary Rythm bubbles in 1986)
  • the saver of the cretaceous (2 pages published in the Newspaper of Tintin n°619 in 1987 with the character of Rork)
  • X-20 (10 pages published in the review Consequences n°13/14 in 1990)
  • the letters (drawings Andreas and Cossu, scenario Michel Jamsin, 6 pages published in the review Brazil n°2 in 1994)
  • the War (2 pages and half published in the fanzine T.A.O n°3 in 1996)
  • the Bear (scenario Jean-Luc Cornet, 5 pages published in Red House N°5 in 2001)

Illustrations

  • Cover of Without top below of Jules Verne (editions Glénat, 1978)
  • Cover of Forcers of blockade of Jules Verne (editions Glénat, 1978)
  • Covers of the first 6 volumes of the Cycle of the Swords of Fritz Leiber (editions future Times):
* Swords and demons (1982)
* Swords and dead (1982)
* Swords and fogs (1982)
* Swords and wizard (1982)
* the kingdom of Lankhmar (1983)
* magic of the ices (1983)

On Andreas

  • Andreas - a Monograph (editions Mosquito, 1997) of Yves Lacroix and Philippe Sohet, with the participation of Gilles Ratier, Jacques Samson and Mat Schifferstein
    Exist in Pulling of Head

  • Narrative ambition - Course in work of Andreas (Editions XYZ, 1999) of Yves Lacroix and Philippe Sohet

External bonds

  • Dossier-andreas.net: very provided site, much of illustrations.
  • Fan-site dedicated to Andreas gathering untraceable the
  • the eye which thinks (not of update since 2002)
  • www.lofficier.com: site of the translator of English Rork

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