Alain Auderset
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Alain Auderset in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
) is a Swiss Christian author of comic books. He lives in Saint-Imier
Saint-Imier
Saint-Imier is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura .Observatoire Astronomique de Mont-Soleil is located above the village....
, Switzerland
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with his wife, Eliane, and their four children, Séphora, Silas, Océane and Benjamin. He also takes part of the music band Saahsal where he is the guitarist and his wife is the singer.
When he was a child, Alain Auderset was collecting papers for recycling. One day, he saw comic books "Tournesol" that someone was throwing away and he kept them and read them. In these magazines, he discovered God and was converted to Christianity. Later, passionate for drawing, he studied graphic arts and began to draw comic strips. In 2001, he published his first book Conventional Wisdom. This first one was followed by Marcel (2004), Robi (2005), Conventional Wisdom II (2006) and Willy Grunch (2008). Nowadays, he is auto-edited and has sold more than 80,000 books.
His first comic book, Conventional Wisdom, was translated in six languages: German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Danish.
Prizes
- AngoulêmeAngoulême International Comics FestivalThe Angoulême International Comics Festival is the largest comics festival in Europe. It has occurred every year since 1974 in Angoulême, France, in the month of January.The four-day festival is notable for awarding several prestigious prizes in cartooning...
2006: Special jury distinction for Idées reçues - AngoulêmeAngoulême International Comics FestivalThe Angoulême International Comics Festival is the largest comics festival in Europe. It has occurred every year since 1974 in Angoulême, France, in the month of January.The four-day festival is notable for awarding several prestigious prizes in cartooning...
2007: International Prize for French Language Christian Comics for Robi pour les intimes - Albuquerque 2007 : People's Choice Awards, 1st, 3rd and 4th places
- AngoulêmeAngoulême International Comics FestivalThe Angoulême International Comics Festival is the largest comics festival in Europe. It has occurred every year since 1974 in Angoulême, France, in the month of January.The four-day festival is notable for awarding several prestigious prizes in cartooning...
2009: International Prize for French Language Christian Comics for Willy Grunch