Maximilien Le Roy
French comics artist (born 1985)
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Maximilien Le Roy (born 29 November 1985) is a French comics creator. His comic books have often been biographies and inspired by travels. He has made several comics about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
| Maximilien Le Roy | |
|---|---|
Le Roy in 2016 | |
| Born | 29 November 1985 |
| Nationality | French |
| Area | Writer, Artist |
Notable works | Nietzsche, se créer liberté Thoreau: A Sublime Life Faire le mur |
Life and career
Maximilien Le Roy was born in France on 29 November 1985.[1] His comic book Hosni (2009) is about a homeless man in Lyon.[2] An interest in Friedrich Nietzsche led him to make Nietzsche, se créer liberté (2010), a biographical comic book about Nietzsche, based on a script by Michel Onfray.[3]
Le Roy visited Palestine in 2008 and 2009 and this became the inspiration for several comic books about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Gaza (2009), Faire le mur (2010) and Les chemins de traverse (2010).[3][4] He travelled in Vietnam after which he made Dans la nuit la liberté nous écoute (2011), which is about Albert Clavier, a French soldier who defected to the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War.[5]
In collaboration with A. Dan, Le Roy made Thoreau: A Sublime Life, a biographical comic book about the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, which was published in French in 2012 and in English translation in 2016.[6] Le Roy has made further biographical comics about people including Paul Gauguin, Louis Auguste Blanqui and Antonin Artaud.[7][8][9]
Selected publications
- Hosni, La Boîte à bulles, 2009.
- Gaza, un pavé dans la mer, editor, La Boîte à bulles, 2009.
- Les chemins de traverse, with Soulman, La Boîte à bulles, 2010.
- Faire le mur, Casterman, 2010.
- Nietzsche, se créer liberté, based on a script by Michel Onfray, Le Lombard, 2010
- Dans la nuit la liberté nous écoute, Le Lombard, 2011.
- Thoreau. La vie sublime, with A. Dan (Alexandre Daniel), Le Lombard, 2012.
- España la vida, with Eddy Vaccaro, Casterman, 2013.[10]
- Palestine, dans quel État ?, with Emmanuel Prost, La boîte à bulles, 2013.
- Gauguin, loin de la route, with Gaultier, Le Lombard, 2013.
- Ni dieu ni maître. Auguste Blanqui, l'enferme, with Renart, Casterman, 2014.