Aristophane

Aristophane
Born Firmin Aristophane Boulon
(1967-01-08)January 8, 1967
Guadeloupe
Died May 11, 2004(2004-05-11) (aged 37)
Area(s) Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
Notable works
 Les sœurs Zabîme

Firmin Aristophane Boulon (published as Aristophane, the French name of Aristophanes) was a Guadeloupe-born cartoonist. A graduate of the French schools École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and European School of Visual Arts, he began work "preoccupied with evil and frailty as viewed through the lives of demons and mythological creatures."[1]

His 1996 novel, Les sœurs Zabîme, is about children in Guadeloupe and considered a "small masterpiece."[1] It was his final completed work.

In school he had been told, "Everything was already explored in painting, everything was already done. The future lies in comics."[2]

Works

  • Parutions Dans le Lézard, le Cheval sans Tête, Lapin, Bananas ()
  • Logorrhée ()
  • Tu Rêves Lili (1993)
  • Faune, ou l'histoire d'un immorale (1995)
  • Un Grand Projet (1995)
  • Conte Démoniaque (1996)
  • Les sœurs Zabîme (1996)
  • The Zabîme Sisters (translated by Matt Madden (2010)

References

  1. 1 2 "Afterword by Matt Maddenn". The Zabîme Sisters. New York City: First Second. 2010. p. 85. ISBN 9781596436381.
  2. ↑ "Aristophane's Les soeurs Zabîme" by Domingos Isabelinho in The Crib Sheet; accessed Sept 20, 2012


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