Jean-Yves Ferri

Jean-Yves Ferri at Lucca Comics & Games 2015

Jean-Yves Ferri (French: [fɛʁi]) (born 20 April, 1959^[1]) is a French writer, designer, and colourist of comics.^[2]

On 25 July 2011, he was chosen as the writer for the next installment of the Asterix series created by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.^[3] Uderzo personally mentored him and Didier Conrad, who was subsequently announced as the artist.^[4] The 36th Asterix volume, Asterix and the Missing Scroll, was released on October 22, 2015 and the 37th volume, Asterix and the Chariot Race, was released in October 2017.^[5]

Prizes

• Prix de l'Humour noir Grandville in 2005 (Revoir Corfou)
• Prix Jacques Lob in 2008
• Prix Virgin 2005 (Le Vaste Monde)

Publications

• Fables autonomes, Audie

1. Tome 1, 1996
2. Tome 2, 1998

• Aimé Lacapelle, Audie

1. Je veille aux grains, 2000
2. Tonnerre sur le sud-ouest, 2001
3. Poules rebelles, 2003
4. Bêtes à bon diou, 2007

• Le Retour à la terre, with Manu Larcenet

1. La Vraie Vie, 2002.
2. Les Projets, 2003.
3. Le Vaste Monde, 2005.
4. Le Déluge, 2006.
5. Les Révolutions, 2008.

• Revoir Corfou, le recueil des dessins hors-séries, collection Azote Liquide, Audie, 2004
• Correspondances, with Manu Larcenet, Les Rêveurs, coll. « M'as-tu vu », 2006.
• Le Sens de la vis, with Manu Larcenet, Les Rêveurs, coll. « M'as-tu vu »,

1. tome 1 : Le Sens de la vis (2007)
2. tome 2 : Tracer le cercle (2010)

• De Gaulle à la plage, Dargaud, coll. « Poisson Pilote », 2007. Couleur Patrice Larcenet.
• Asterix and the Missing Scroll - 2015
• Asterix and the Chariot Race - 2017

References