Guy Delcourt (editor)

Guy Delcourt , born in 1958, is the founder of the editions Delcourt specialized in the Cartoon.

Biography

By creating in 1986 the editions to which it gives its name, Guy Delcourt, which is a fan of Cinéma and in particular of the realizers Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, seeks a means of sharing its passions and also wishes to found a company.

After a scientific baccalaureat in 1977, it leaves graduate the ESSEC in 1980. It starts a career of financial analyst then. Its first station, with Los Angeles, enables him to study the assessments of large companies… but especially to become specialized journalist as a cartoon and Cinéma grace, in particular, with an exclusive interview of Harrison Ford for the first Indiana Jones. Of return in France, it joined the team of the magazine Pilote, of which he becomes editor association in 1985 under the crook of Guy Vidal. The meeting with the medium of the data base is a love at first sight. It leaves the magazine in February 1986 and, at 28 years, decides to create its publisher with an initial contribution of: 150000 francs.

It takes along with him Thierry Cailleteau and Olivier Vatine which will publish the very first album of the publisher: Galères balneal . It is about a collection of stories published at the origin in Pilote.

In the search of talents and authors whom it is necessary to convince in spite of the young age of its company, it discovers at the School of the fine arts of Angouleme the people that it needs of which Alain Ayroles, Turf, Claire Wendling. He engages the near total of a promotion. To reinforce its bonds with the draftsmen, he proposes to them an artistic service of agency opening to them the doors of publicity, the cinema and the video. The " Manufacture Delcourt" was born.

As of its second title, it gains a success by publishing an adaptation as a cartoon of the songs of Renaud, which is sold with more: 100000 specimens. Unfortunately its diffuser, " Masters of Monde" , fact bankruptcy what deprives it of any benefit.

It creates its own company of diffusion then, " Winds of Diffusion" West;. It launches two series of young authors: Legends of the Forgotten Regions and Aquablue. A whole generation of readers, which swears only by Star Wars and the Lord of the rings, is recognized in these 2 fantastic epopees which are a new success for Delcourt. That will make it possible the editions to launch out in other projects to grow bigger gradually, and this in connection with the increasing trends in the market of these last years. Beginnings of the year 2000 indeed mark a boom of the sales and in particular of the Manga S which propose today the editor in his catalog via the label Akata.

In same time, Delcourt approached the editor Sun Productions with whom it creates the diffuser Delsol. To note that run of the rumors of fusion of the 2 editors but Guy Delcourt seems inclined to keep its independence. Delcourt also repurchased in 2005 the publisher Tonkam specialized in the manga. These media, among others of the editor who publishes several works of the anglophone cartoon, are in constant increase in the total Turnover (approximately 16%).

In November 2006, it obtains the rank of knight in the Order of Merit by the president of the Republic Jacques Chirac, on a proposal from the Minister for the Culture, Mister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres. Its publisher has just celebrated its 20 years in September to Bercy Village.

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