![]() I first became familiar with David B.’s work when I encountered “The Armed Garden” in Mome magazine in 2005 and was amazed by both the distinctiveness of the art and the quality of the narration. ![]() Since then, a number of his books have been translated into English, including Babel, Incidents in the Night, and Best of Enemies. This was his first book-length work to be translated into English (the first half appeared in 2002 from Fantagraphics, and the complete work was published as a single volume by Pantheon in 2005). David B.’s elegant, austere aesthetics have influenced that publisher’s distinctive trade dress and design sensibility to the present day, and he is also responsible for mentoring Marjane Satrapi in the development of L’Association’s most successful book, the international best-seller Persepolis.Īs an artist, he is best known for his acclaimed autobiographical comic Epileptic, published serially in France from 1996 to 2003, about his family’s struggle surrounding his brother’s epilepsy and David’s development as an artist. In 1990, with a group of six other artists, he co-founded L’Association, the most influential publisher of independent comics in France. ![]() ![]() is short for Beauchard) began working in comics and illustration around 1985. ![]()
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