Jean-François Miniac

Jean-François Miniac , born with Paris XIVe district, is an author of Cartoon.

He passes his childhood to Caen then obtains a license of Visual arts with Rennes. Raise painters Jack Mutel and Auguste Denis-Brunaud, it then is formed with animation in the school of the Gobelins directed by demanding the Pierre Ayma (1941-1998), on the councils of the draftsman Cromwell before launching out in the advertizing illustration, which it does, all as a practitioner the Cartoon.

He sends a file to Mourad Boudjellal, which was then creating the editions Sun. He collaborates then with Scotch Arleston for Saga of wire of Thulé (1993). He draws then El suore at Fleurus, on a scenario of Ricardo Alvarez, title which exceeds the 30.000 sold specimens, as well in Spanish version as in Italian.

He meets Jean-Luc Cornette and remains with Brussels. He enters to the magazine Hello data base (Tintin), draws the second tome cheese of the series Sam Griffith (for André Taymans and Bob de Groot), then publishes the investigations of Hercule Poirot in the collection Agatha Christie with the Editions Claude Lefrancq, in a spirit close to that of the cartoons of Jacobs, following in that the wish of Rosalind Hicks, the girl of Agatha Christie and his agents. Two volumes of the adaptations of Agatha Christie in data base leave, the crime of the East-Express train (1995) and Mort on the Nile (1996). The scenaristic adaptation is signed by François Rivière. Mort on the Nile receives the price of the public to the festival of Creil and its two titles translated into ten languages know an important business success (140.000 ex for the two albums, in December 2006.)

The Lefrancq editions have commercial problems and Henri Filippini, editor with the editions Glénat, proposes in Miniac and Rivière to create detective series, it will be Outsiders - three volumes, left into 1998,1999,2000, each one realized in four months to make it possible François Rivière to concentrate on her biography of Frederic Dard.

Refusing from now on work of order in a realistic style which does not correspond to him any more, it takes the pseudonym of Solidor to answer at the request of republication of the Agatha Christie with the editions Emmanuel Proust in 2002 and 2003. In the same way, in 2003, it draws one of the episodes of volume 3 of the " Tales of Korrigan" at Sun (17.000 e.g. in January 2007).

Since, while drawing for Xavier Mows, scenario writer of Lucky Luke, Miniac devotes itself to the scenario of gags and the romantic writing, being integrated in a social and humorous data base. ( Christophe , 2005, Winds of West, Zoë sows the discord , with Emmanuel Delente and Claire Christmas). In October 2006, " the Arch of Zoe, volume 1" is second at the price of best album data base decreed by Net surfers 16-25 years.

In 2006, the Prix Sunflower inter alia is decreed to him with the International festival of the cartoon of Angouleme, as Co-draftsman of Amiante, chronicle of a social crime , a socially committed collective album published in September 2005 with the editions Seventh shock .

In January 2007, appears the album the round the world tour in 80 bubbles , at " Coinceurs of bulles" , collective album with the pupils of its weekly courses of data base with Rennes and Noyal on Unpleasant (35). In June, appears the Guide Emile Borne of Brittany , prefaced by Tri Yann and Co-realized with Thierry Laudrain at Duo like three apples. In July, the editor of reference of Agatha Christie, To grip Hakes the U.K., publishes in English his two adaptations data base, (Murder one the Orient Express train and Death one the Nile), creating the collection Agatha Christie comic strip, thus inaugurating the first series of graphic novels of this important Anglo-Saxon editor, an edition at Harper Australia Hakes being envisaged next in October, a diffusion in the USA during 2008. These adaptations are well accommodated by the large press, the International Herald Tribune like The Guardian, also diffused in Germany, Denmark, Ireland, Japan… In the same way, an edition portuguaise of Died on the Nile left in 2007 in a local editor. A second volume of the Arch of Zoe, Zoe and the world lost , is appeared in 2007. In August, it signs a criminal chronicle in the form of thirty news, to appear in September 2008 at Of Borated, like the history of Rennes told with the children with Christian Briec and Bruno Genton for the text and Edmond Herve for the foreword, to appear in December 2007 with the Editions Apogee. Since this year, it scénarise the animalist series Diskiantin' drawn by Pauline Casters for an agricultural hedomadaire.

The illustration of Gribouillis the frog on text of Annie Prévost is in hand, series youth of which the first three volumes must appear at the summer 2008. In addition, Miniac scénarisé two albums of socio-professional humor, one drawn by Pauline Casters, the other by Fred Coicault, data bases which will appear during 2008.

Miniac incarnates a character of the album the ninth butterfly (2000) of Serge Dutfoy, as well as a judge in the fifth season of Jean-Yves Paillet and Patrick Chauvelot (2007).

Since 2007, the cartopole of Baud réfèrencie some of its drawings.

External bond

: Miniac genealogy.

: blog Emile guide Limits.

Sources

Egypt in the cartoon, catalogs museums of Angers, 1998.
Annuaire of draftsmen data base of Brittany , 2000-2001, published by the cultural Conseil of Brittany (Rennes).
encyclopedic Dictionary of the innate band as of , Henri Filippini, at Opera mundi, 2000.
Larousse of the cartoon , Patrick Gaumer, at Larousse, 2004.
of Rennes the , monthly magazine, April 2006.
Re-examined French of genealogy , n° 164, article on the romantic work of Miniac, June-July 2006.
Saint-Malo magazine , July 2006.
Rennes woman , monthly magazine, May 2007.
International Herald Platform of August 22nd, 2007, article of Tared Mulholland.
The Guardian of August 23rd, 2007, article of Ned Beauman.
BBC news of August 22nd, 2007, by Megan Lane.
professional Directory of the cartoon and the illustration , AD tatum, Paris, 2008.

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