Jean Charles Kraehn

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Jean-Charles Kraehn is a French writer and comic artist, one of the leading figures in Franco-Belgian comics, capable of exploring a wide range of worlds, from historical narratives to contemporary thrillers. After starting out as a self-taught artist, he enrolled at the École Estienne in Paris, where he studied graphic design and met, among others, Patrice Pellerin and illustrator Pierre Joubert, both of whom had a lasting influence on his approach to drawing. He became an illustrator in the early 1980s for the Scouts de France and Hachette, before publishing his first comic books in 1982 with ID Program. His career truly took off in 1986 with Les Aigles décapitées (The Decapitated Eagles), a medieval series he initially illustrated based on a script by Patrice Pellerin. He later continued the series on his own before handing the artwork over to Michel Pierret up until the thirteenth volume. In 1990, he established himself as a complete creator with Bout d’homme (Scrap of a Man), which he wrote and illustrated entirely himself. Complete biography.