Frédéric Boilet

Frdric Boilet is a French cartoonist and a manga artist. His debut in comic art was in 1983 with La Nuit des Arches. He created Le Rayon vert in 1987 followed by 36 15 Alexia in 1990 two albums where he experimented with a method of working that is still uniquely his today in which he resorts almost exclusively to photographs and video. His encounter with Benot Peeters in 1990 turned his work toward semiautobiographical stories tinged with humour : Love Hotel 1993 Tky est mon jardin 1997 and Demitour 1997. For some years Boilet lived in Japan where Tky est mon jardin meaning Tokyo is my garden was translated in 1998 and Demitour the following year. He started doing work for manga magazines in the late nineties and was a rare example of a western comics artist having some degree of success in the Japanese market. In 2001 on the occasion of the simultaneous publication in France and Japan of the critically acclaimed Yukikos Spinach he launched the Nouvelle Manga movement in Tokyo which sought to combine mature sophisticated daily life manga with the artistic style of traditional FrancoBelgian comics. Boilets final production work was Lapprenti Japonais. Boilet claims to have finished his editorial career with this work a book of unused drawings from the twelve years spanning from 1996 to 2008 all concerning the time he had spent in Japan. He now resides again in his native France. Source: Wikipedia