Cromwell

Cromwell was born in 1959 in Guer in Morbihan. Provocative at heart, he is the son of an officer of the Foreign Legion who forbids him to read and make comics. In high school, he stayed with the Jesuits and then joined the paratroopers where, thanks to a subtle sabotage of exams, he deviated from the path traced by his father. He then entered the Penninghen school and then the goblin school. During these years, he meets Eric Gratien who will become the scriptwriter of Anita Bomba and Riff Reb's with whom he will found the Asylum workshop alongside Arthur Qwak and Kisler. Together, they challenge the codes of the 9th Art and in a few years, they become the leaders of a new comics school. Cromwell distinguished himself there by skillfully mixing inhabited and innovative graphics with an often corrosive and subversive discourse (Le Bal de la Sueur, Minettos Desperados, Anita Bomba).

In 2010, he shakes up his own graphic codes and adapts James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans to the screenplay with Catmalou. The following year, he published Somewhere, an artbook by Akiléos Cromwell retracing thirty years of drawing. In 2013, he created the label Week-end on Mars with Éric Gratien and joined forces with Akiléos Editions to republish Anita Bomba's various albums and publish the new adventures of this mythical character. Fascinated by vast expanses and adventure stories, he is currently preparing the adaptation of a short story by Jack London, again in collaboration with Catmalou.

- 1986: Bloody Mary Award for The Ball of Sweat.

- 2005: Grand Prix of the festival Des Planches et des Vaches for the whole of his work.

- 2010: Best Comic Book Award at the Saint-Etienne Book Fair and Saint-Michel Best Drawing Award at the 9th Brussels Comics Festival for his graphic novel, Le Dernier des Mohicans, Soleil.

- 2011: Best Drawing Prize at the Festival of Chambéry for Le Dernier des Mohicans, Soleil.

Selected Bibliography :

Anita Bomba Comics #0, 1, 2 and 3, co-edition Weekend on March - Akiléos, 2014 - 2019

Diary of a pain in the ass, theft. 1, screenplay Éric Gratien, co-edition Week-end on Mars - Akiléos, 2016 - expanded edition of the first 3 volumes of Anita Bomba.

Cromwell, Somewhere, Akiléos edition, December 2011

Le Dernier des Mohicans, screenplay Catmalou, collection Noctambule, Soleil, 2010

Anita Bomba, Poussière d'ange, volume 5, screenplay Éric Gratien, Albin Michel, 2006

Tenu par les couilles, with Riff Reb's, Soleil, 2003

Anita Bomba, 4 volumes, screenplay Éric Gratien, Casterman, 1994 - 1997

Minettos Desperados, 3 volumes, screenplay Joe Ruffner, Glénat, 1989 - 1992

Aaargl!, with Riff Reb's, Glénat, 1987.

The Sweat Ball, with Riff Reb's, EDS, 1985