Christophe Chabouté (born 8 February 1967) is a French comics artist.
Biography
Chabouté was born on February 8, 1967; he is of Alsatian heritage. Chabouté attended Fine Arts courses in Angoulême and Strasbourg. The publishing house Vents d'Ouest published his first pieces in 1993 in Les Récits, a collective album about Arthur Rimbaud. But Chabouté became best known in 1998 by publishing Sorcières by Éditions du Téméraire (awarded at the Illzach Festival) and Quelques jours d'été by Editions Paquet (Alph'Art Coup de Coeur Festival Angoulême). He has also illustrated novels for young people. His work Alone (French: Tout seul), which is translated into English by Ivanka Hahnenberger, is considered his masterpiece.
Works
Albums
Sorcières, Le Téméraire, 1998 (rééd. Vents d'Ouest, 2001)
Quelques jours d'été, éditions Paquet, 1998 (rééd. 1999 & 2004)
To Build a Fire (Construire un feu), collection Equinoxe, Vents d'Ouest, 2007 – After the 1907 short story by Jack London – Prix Cognac du Meilleur Album "One Shot" 2008
Alone (Tout seul), Vents d'Ouest, 2008 – (Sélection officielle du Festival d'Angoulême 2009)
La chute du corbeau, écrit par Jean-Charles Bernardini, Mango Jeunesse, coll Le cercle magique, 2003
Adaptations
The Park Bench was adapted into a silent black and white 45-minutes film directed by Antonin Le Guay (Sandgate Productions) in 2014. It was partly funded through the crowdfunding platform Kiss Kiss Bank Bank from 2 to 27 June 2014. The funding ended on 134%.
The French music group L'Étrange K and the association Scènes occupation signed in April 2016 an adaptation of the same Chabouté comic strip in "BD-concert" (diffusion of the comic book accompanied by live music).
