Merwan Chabane — Wikipedia

Merwan Chabane , born in 1978, is a director of animated films, designer and French comic book scriptwriter.

Merwan Chabane graduated from the National School of Decorative Arts. After a visit to the Gobelins school, he began his career in the video game world, but also by making storyboard for different series of entertainment.

In 2002, he wrote and directed his end -of -studies film, Biotope , animated short film. Supported by the CNC and Arte, this experience continues with the production of another animated short film, Evening clichés Selected for the 2009 gold cartoon price ^{[ first ]} .

In 2007, he was contacted to collaborate in the feature film of Lascars as a story-boarder ^{[Contested relevance]} . In 2009, he published comics False guard Au Éditions Vents d’Ouest, the reworked version of its first comic strip Scent .

Then he also published in 12 bis the first volume of the adventure saga Gold and blood that he draws on a staging by Fabien Bedouel, co -written by Maurin Defrance and Fabien Nury. He then begins the creation of albums, alone or in collaboration, as with Bastien Vivès for the series For the empire Colorized by Sandra Desmazières. Merwan also scripts Pistouvi For the designer Bertrand Gatignol ^{[ 2 ]} : 10 years after its publication in France, the American edition by Magnetic press From the book is also worth a selection for the price of the best inking ( Best Penciller/Inker ) at the Eisner Awards 2021 ^{[ 3 ]} .

More recently, Merwan comes out Celestial mechanics , post-apocalyptic bd particularly well received by criticism ^{[ 4 ] , [ 5 ] , [ 6 ] , [ 7 ] , [ 8 ] , [ 9 ] , [ ten ]} . The book published in the fall of 2019 is appointed for the selection of young adults selection in Angoulême 2020, as well as for the price Fnac – France Inter 2019 ^{[ 11 ]} and the prize for the best science fiction comic strip to the Utopiales of Nantes 2020 ^{[ twelfth ]} .

Portrait of Merwan signing his bang lithographic draw at the Idem Paris workshop (2019).

Since 2011, Merwan Chabane has been comic strip to students of additional non -diploma training (formerly FCIL) at the technological high school of Applied Arts Auguste Renoir in Paris. He was also welcomed in 2013 in residence in the Aulnay-sous-Bois libraries as part of the writers program in Seine-Saint-Denis, initiated by the department with the cities of Seine-Saint-Denis ^{[ 13 ]} .

• Biotope , 2004
• Evening clichés , 2007

• Scent , West Winds, (2004)
• False guard , West Winds, (2009)
• Gold and blood , 12bis / Glénat – Scenario: Fabien Nury and Maurin Defrance – Drawing: Merwan and Fabien Bedouel – Colors: Romain Trystram (volumes 1 & 2), Sandrine Bonini and Alice Bohl (volumes 3 & 4)

1. The Call of the List (2009)
2. Inch’allah (2010)
3. The Princes of the Djebel (2012)
4. Khalil (2014)

1. The honor (2010)
2. The women (2010)
3. The wealth (2011)
4. For the Empire – Integral – (September 2020)

• L’Ourso , 12 bis (2011) – Drawing: David Alapont – Script: Merwan – Colors: Sandrine Bonini
• Pistouvi , Dargaud, 2011 – DESSIN: BertRand Gatignol – Scenario: WEANG
• Jeanne , Dargaud, 2012 – Dessin: BertRand Gatignol – Scenario: Wean
• The beautiful age , Dargaud – Colors: Romain Trystram

1. Mess (2012)
2. Territory (2012)
3. Departures (two thousand and thirteen)

• Shadow , Glénat – Scenario: Loulou Dedola – Drawing and Color: Merwan

1. Gazi! (2016)
2. Ange is Lastit (2017)

• Clémence Evidence , Delcourt (2017) – Drawing and color: Merwan – Scenario: Sandrine Bonini
• Celestial mechanics ^{[ 14 ] , [ 15 ]} (Scenario, drawing and colors), Dargaud, coll. Visions of the future, September 2019 (ISBN  978-2-205-07818-3 )

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• Merwan (interviewed) and Paul Giner, ” Let’s sing in the rain (balls)! », Casemate , n ^O 129, October 2019 , p. 64-69 .

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