Bertrand Escaich
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- Les Rugbymen
- Studio Danse
- Le Jour où...
| Bertrand Escaich | |
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| Born | July 3, 1973 Saint-Girons, Ariège, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Area | Writer |
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| Awards | Prix des collégiens (Festival d'Angoulême), 2009 |
Bertrand Escaich (born 3 July 1973, in Saint-Girons, Ariège) is a French comics writer. Together with Caroline Roque, he forms the duo Béka.
Bertrand Escaich began making his first comics in primary school and became interested in the following authors: Hergé, Franquin, Goscinny and Peyo for humour, and Jean-Michel Charlier for adventure.
In 1998, while enrolled in a bachelor's degree in physical sciences at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, he sent a portfolio to a few publishers. Vents d'Ouest responded favourably, and his first pages were published in collective albums. In 2000, he met Alexandre Mermin (later known as Poupard, artist of Les Rugbymen) at the Le Livre sur la Place book fair, and they began collaborating. Their first album, Les Brumes du Miroboland, enabled them to join Bamboo Édition, founded by Olivier Sulpice.
Escaich met Caroline Roque in 2001, and they formed the duo Béka.[1] At Olivier Sulpice's request, they both took over scripts for several Bamboo series before creating successful series including Les Rugbymen (art by Poupard)[2][3] and Studio Danse (art by Crip),[4] followed by Le Jour où... (art by Marko).
Escaich won the Prix des collégiens at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2009 for the series Chinn (two volumes drawn by Frédéric Vervisch).[5]
At Dargaud, Escaich and Roque created the series Géo BD (art by Marko), then Filles Uniques (art by Camille Méhu). At Dupuis, he co-wrote with Roque the series Champignac and volume 65 of Les Tuniques Bleues.[6][7][8][9] With the same publisher, they created the series Cœur Collège (art by Maya), A-lan (art by Thomas Labourot), and L'École des petits monstres (art by Bob). In 2022, Escaich created the series Les Cœurs de Ferraille on his own, drawn by José Luis Munuera.