Éric Hérenguel is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 comics artist

Comics artist

A comics artist is an artist working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books or graphic novels. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute to produce a work in the comics form, from those who oversee all aspects of the work to those who contribute only a part.-Comic...

 and comic book creator

Comic book creator

A comic book creator is someone who creates a comic book or graphic novel.The production of a comic book by one of the major comic book companies in the U.S...

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Biography

Hérenguel made his debut in 1986 with the Jean-Pierre Croquet's short stories for the famous Tintin (magazine)

Tintin (magazine)

Le journal de Tintin or Kuifje , was a weekly Belgian comics magazine of the second half of the 20th century...

. When the Journal de Tintin publication ceased, he worked two years for a publicist. His work is clearly influenced by movies (mainly from the social science fiction). His first serie was Carnivores written by Jean Wacquet. He made the interior work on Ballade au bout du Monde (issues #5 to #8 and written by Makyo

Makyo

The term means “ghost cave” or “devil’s cave.” It is employed in Zen as figurative reference to the kind of self-delusion that results from clinging to an experience and making a conceptual “nest” out of it for oneself...

). After, he collaborated with Dieter on Les Mémoires d’Edward John Trelawnay, inspired by the real privateer

Privateer

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 Edward John Trelawny

Edward John Trelawny

Edward John Trelawny was a biographer, novelist and adventurer who is best known for his friendship with the Romantic poets Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Trelawny was born in England to a family of modest income but extensive ancestral history...

 but in a science fiction universe with some fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

 elements. Then, in 1999, he created Krän ("crâne" means "skull" in French), a serie of fantasy comic books published in France by Vent d'Ouest as a series of graphic albums. The series is a parody of sword and sorcery stories and specifically of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons (Krän, the main character being a barbarian).
Éric Hérenguel is currently working on the magazine Lanfeust with Kiliwatch.