Je t'aime, 2018

Edmond Baudoin  

Edmond Baudoin is a cartoonist and author of comics. At the start of the 1970s, at the age of almost forty, Edmond Baudoin gave up a career as a chief accountant to move towards artistic creation. He published his first books with Futuropolis editions in 1981. His avant-garde style, both for his drawing and for his writing, earned him immediate recognition by the comics world. The consecration of his work took place in 1992 when he received the Alph'Art for best album, for Couma Aco. In his albums he tells about his life, that of his family, the stories and the trips that have marked him. So he brought in a new style in comics: the drawn autobiography. He develops this vein in several works published by L'Association.

In 1993 Baudoin began a collaboration with an important Japanese publisher: Kodansha. He then went to Japan, with several European authors including Baru and Lewis Trondheim. There is very little time left. He publishes three books for the Japanese public in Morning magazine. From these publications will be born two books adapted for the French public: Le Voyage and Salade Niçoise. Le Voyage was republished by L'Association editions in 1996. The following year, Baudoin won the Alph'Art for best screenplay for this comic in Angoulême. From 1999 to 2003 the University of Quebec offered him to become a drawing professor. He will leave this function in 2003.

Between 2012 and 2013 Edmond Baudoin worked for Editions Dupuis and the Center Pompidou on a book published on the occasion of a Dali exhibition. He is also keen to talk about topical issues, as in his book Mediterranean. In this graphic work, Baudoin denounces the hundreds of migrant deaths that there are each year in this sea, through the story of a little girl. Edmond Baudoin is inspired by several authors, painters and artists of all times. He confides that the painter Goya and the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti as a teenager inspired him to start drawing.