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Maximilien Le Roy

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Maximilien Le Roy
Le Roy in 2016
Born (1985-11-29) 29 November 1985 (age 38)
France
NationalityFrench
Area(s)Writer, Artist
Notable works
Nietzsche, se créer liberté
Thoreau: A Sublime Life
Faire le mur

Maximilien Le Roy (born 29 November 1985) is a French comics creator. His comic books have often been biographies and inspired by travels. He has made several comics about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Life and career

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Maximilien Le Roy was born in France on 29 November 1985.[1] His comic book Hosni (2009) is about a homeless man in Lyon.[2] An interest in Friedrich Nietzsche led him to make Nietzsche, se créer liberté (2010), a biographical comic book about Nietzsche, based on a script by Michel Onfray.[3]

Le Roy visited Palestine in 2008 and 2009 and this became the inspiration for several comic books about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Gaza (2009), Faire le mur (2010) and Les chemins de traverse (2010).[3][4] He travelled in Vietnam after which he made Dans la nuit la liberté nous écoute (2011), which is about Albert Clavier, a French soldier who defected to the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War.[5]

In collaboration with A. Dan, Le Roy made Thoreau: A Sublime Life, a biographical comic book about the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, which was published in French in 2012 and in English translation in 2016.[6] Le Roy has made further biographical comics about people including Paul Gauguin, Louis Auguste Blanqui and Antonin Artaud.[7][8][9]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ Cassel, Benoît (26 January 2012). "interview Bande dessinée: Maximilien le Roy". Planète BD (in French). Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  2. ^ Vanier, Jean-Bernard (25 October 2009). "Hosni". Planète BD (in French).
  3. ^ a b Le Saux, Laurence (29 March 2010). "Maximilien Le Roy retrace la vie de Nietzsche". BoDoï [fr] (in French). Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  4. ^ Henry, Vincent (25 May 2010). "Interview de Maximilien Le Roy". BDTheque.com (in French). Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  5. ^ Peras, Delphine (27 September 2011). "Le Français qui combattait pour Hô Chi Minh". L'Express (in French). Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  6. ^ "Thoreau: A Sublime Life". Publishers Weekly. 25 April 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  7. ^ "L'autre Gauguin". Le Parisien (in French). 29 November 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  8. ^ Clavières, Guillaume (23 February 2014). "Ni dieu ni maître". Planète BD (in French). Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  9. ^ P.V. (31 March 2016). "BD : rouge Mexique". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 22 December 2023.
  10. ^ Gacon, Alexis (10 May 2013). "España la vida". BoDoï [fr]. Retrieved 22 December 2023.