- Fabrice Neaud
Fabrice Neaud (b.
December 17 ,1968 inLa Rochelle ) is a French comics artist. He got hisbaccalaureate in literature (option graphic arts) in 1986. He studied philosophy during two years. Then he entered an art school and studied there four years. In 1991 he quit the school. For four years he had been looking for a job, making a living on various works.He is a co-founder of the Ego comme X association. In 1994, the first number of the Ego comme X magazine was released. In it, Fabrice Neaud published his first works. It was the beginning of his Journal (which is a diary in comics), an ambitious autobiographical project. The first volume of the Journal was released in 1996. It got a prize Alph'art (best work by a young artist) in Angoulême in 1997.
Fabrice Neaud keeps on drawing his Journal. Three more volumes have been published between 1998 and 2002. He published also many short stories in Ego comme X, Bananas and other magazines. Some of his works have been translated into Italian and Spanish. A reviewer notes, "But Neaud isn’t a simple diarist: he’s also an artist concerned with various problems of our society, including homophobia and gay life in small towns". [ [http://www.prismcomics.org/display.php?id=1151 François Peneaud's Recommended Top Ten Comics for LGBT Readers] ] . His works have been the subject of academic papers. [ [http://etc.dal.ca/belphegor/vol4_no1/articles/04_01_Miller_trnsgr_en_cont.html "Transgressive Bodies in the work of Julie Doucet, Fabrice Neaud and Jean-Christophe Menu: Towards a Theory of the 'AutobioBD' " by Ann Miller & Murray Pratt, Belphégor, Vol 4 No 1] ] [cite book
last = Pratt
first = Murray
editor = Lucille Cairns
title = Gay and Lesbian cultures in France
year = 2002
publisher = Peter Lang
location = Bern
isbn = 978-3-906769-66-0
pages = pp. 257-74
chapter = The diary of Neaud's body: approaching the subject of Heterocentricity]References
External links
* [http://www.ego-comme-x.com/ Official Site]
* [http://perso.wanadoo.fr/soleille/fabriceneaud/eng/ Fan Site]
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