Rain Wolf

Dessinateur depuis 1970, Ruben Pellejero se lance dans la bande dessinée en 1982 en publiant Historias de una Barcelona dans la revue Cairo. Avec Jorge Zentner, il met en images la série Las Memorias de M. Griffaton, en 1982. En 1985, en collaboration avec Zentner, il dessine le premier album des Aventures de Dieter Lumpen, qui marque le retour de la grande aventure dans l'ambiance des années 40. En 1996, il publie chez Casterman Le Silence de Malka (Alph-Art du meilleur album étranger à Angoulême en 1997 et prix du Jury oecuménique), suivi, en août 1999, de Blues et autres récits en couleur. En 2012, il publie Loup de Pluie chez Dargaud, un western personnel et intimiste, avec la complicité du scénariste de Jean Dufaux.

Jean Dufaux has always told stories that bring together words and images. Initially attracted by the 7th art, he studied film production at the Institut des Arts et Diffusion in Brussels. But words remained such an important part of his life that he became a journalist, playwright and novelist, before once and for all embracing his true calling as a comic book author. Over his career, Jean Dufaux has produced a massive body of work, comprising some 200 titles and counting. His work is original and fiercely independent of trends, holding more complexity than might be apparent at first glance: "Complainte des landes perdues" (Dargaud, "Lament of the Lost Moors" Cinebook), "Double masque" (Dargaud, "Game of Masks" Europe Comics), "Murena" (Dargaud, Europe Comics in English), "Rapaces" (Dargaud, "Raptors" Europe Comics), "Djinn" (Dargaud, Europe Comics in English), "Croisade" (Le Lombard, "Crusade" Cinebook), "Barracuda" (Dargaud, Cinebook in English), "Sortilèges" (Dargaud, "Spellbound" Europe Comics), "Loup de Pluie" (Dargaud, "Rain Wolf" Europe Comics), Dixie Road (Dargaud, Europe Comics in English), "Saga Valta" (Le Lombard, Europe Comics in English), "Conquistador" (Glénat)... The list goes on. This immense mosaic that rejects neither the exhilaration of the paperback novel nor the narrative ellipses of cinema aims above all to be a work of pleasure and of enchantment, in the fantastic and occult sense of the term. His wildly successful series, selling millions of copies and garnering numerous prizes and awards, have been published across Europe, Japan, and the United States. Jean Dufaux is president of the jury for the Diagonale Prize, awarded annually in Belgium to outstanding comic book artists, and in France Jean Dufaux was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2009.