Emmanuel Le Page

Emmanuel Lepage was born in 1966 in Saint-Brieuc. At the age of 13, he met the artist Jean-Claude Fournier who had a huge impact on his life. Spirou’s cartoonist teached him drawing’s basics and gave him a lot of advices. In 1983, he drew his first published drawing for the newspaper Ouest France, then with the Rennes’s libraries’s help he published, at the author’s expense, his first comic book entitled La Fin du monde aura-t-elle lieu?. From 1984, he has made a plenty of illustrations for reviews and magazines in Brittany.

After a lot of comic books, he began in 2003 what is still considered as his masterpiece: the diptych Muchacho in the Aire Libre collection. He signed an outstandingly sensitive and committed oeuvre. The press was unanimous and it has been awarded by many prizes.

Lepage’s thin and powerful line, his refined drawing and his wonderful watercolour art made him one of the most talented creator of the French comic book. His works has been translated in numerous European countries as well as in the United-States.

He has made, with his girlfriend the writer Sophie Michel, a diptych entitled Oh les filles! which has been published in 2008 by Futuropolis.