Frederic Boilet

Frederic Boilet is an author of cartoons French born the January 16th 1960 with Épinal, living and working with the Japan.

Course

In 1978, it enters to the school of the Art schools of Nancy which it will leave in 1983. This same year, it publishes its first album, the Night of Archées (Bayard Presse), with Guy Deffeyes. It will publish then two albums of historical cartoon at Glénat ( Veins of the Occident , with Rene Durand).

In 1987 it leaves its first album as a scenario writer and a draftsman, it will be the green Ray (Magic Strip), very noticed by the critic but to which the public will have access with difficulty because the editor went bankrupt.

In 1990, it leaves 36 15 Alexia , an album which evokes in a very interesting way the subject of the meetings by minitel.

The same year, thanks to the Shoei company and to the National center of the Letters, which grant a purse to him, Frederic Boilet leaves to Japan. From this voyage will be born Love Hotel which tells the tragi-comic odyssey of French in Japan. Benoit Peeters coécrit the scenario, the album leaves in 1993.

The following year, stock exchange of the Kujôyama Villa of Kyōto (the villa Médicis Japanese woman…), which is a first for an author of cartoons, Boilet starts Tokyo is my garden , one following Love Hotel . Here the glance of the author, just like that of his hero, changed: less lost, it is put up with - relative - the bizarreries of Japan.

In 1995, it founds the Workshop of the Vosges (place from the Vosges in Paris), with his/her friends Christophe Blain, David B., Emile Bravo, Joann Sfar, Emmanuel Guibert and Tronchet. At that time the curious album Demi-tour will leave, coscenarized by Benoît Peeters.

In 1997, it goes back to Japan in the intention to be established there. Over there, it publishes a Japanese adaptation of Tokyo is my garden , as well as the works intended for only public Japanese like the account beautiful a manga of love or the series of illustrated texts Prisonnier of the Japanese women (kind of Lettres modern Persians). Pullings of these works are often extraordinary and Boilet obtains a great notoriety from it. Remotely, it will take part in the adventure of the review of criticism and theory of the cartoon Essential the.

Beside its career of author, Boilet will take readily the role of “cultural frontier runner”, pushing the authors and editors Japanese and French to cooperate on various projects. Pushing this logic with the end, he will be the initiator of the transcultural movement Nouvelle Manga, entitled directly referring to the New wave and currently directs a collection (“Sakka”) for Casterman.

A work moving

If one can find a feature common to the albums of Boilet, it is although they do not resemble each other. Of course, certain tics of drawing or narration are found, but each new project is an experiment for the author as for the reader. Since 36 15 Alexia , Boilet makes especially fictions starting from its own daily newspaper, which it rewrites, reinvents: it is its own material but its books do not constitute to in no case the shape of autobiography.

The graphics of Boilet has also evolved/moved him: first of all draftsman virtuoso, Boilet little by little took taste with the use of photographic stereotypes which it redraws in a manner very to him. Photography is used here for its subjective points of view and its optical deformations. It is a question here of causing an impression of subjective vision, of intimacy even of voyeurism, at the reader.

Albums published in France

the Night of Archées - scenario of Guy Deffeyes (Bayard Presses 1983)
Veins of the Occident T1, the Girl of Ibères - scenario of Rene Durand (Glénat 1985)
Veins of the Occident t2, the Horse-demon - scenario of Rene Durand (Glénat 1988)
the green Ray (Magic Strip 1987)
36 15 Alexia (Humanoïdes Associés 1990, rééd. Ego as X 2004)
Coils Hotel - in collaboration with Benoît Peeters (Casterman 1993, rééd. Ego as X 2005)
Tokyo is my garden - in collaboration with Benoît Peeters and Jirô Taniguchi (Casterman, 1997, rééd. 2003)
Half-turn - in collaboration with Benoit Peeters and Emmanuel Guibert (free Dupuis Surface 1997)
the Spinach of Yukiko (Ego like X 2001)
Mariko Parades - in collaboration with Kan Takahama (Casterman 2003)
the Japanese Apprentice , texts, drawings, photographs (the Impressions News 2006)
They (Ego like X 2007)

Albums published in Japan

“東京は僕の庭” ( Tokyo wa boku No niwa ) - in collaboration with Benoit Peeters and Jirô Taniguchi (Kôrinsha 1998)
“恋愛漫画ができるまで” ( Ren' have manga ga dekiru made ) - in collaboration with Benoît Peeters and Emmanuel Guibert (Bijutsu Shuppansha 1999)
“ゆき子のホウレン草” ( Yukiko No hôrensô ) (Ohta Shuppan 2001)
“まり子パラード” ( Mariko Parade ) - in collaboration with Kan Takahama (Ohta Shuppan 2003)

See too

External bonds

boilet.net - official site
Chronic of the albums and portrait of author on avoir-alire.com

Other sources

Labyrinth n°25 Revue which comprises an article on the author: “Boilet and the back of the data base: news manga or last misadventure of the japonism? ”

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