Black OP

Born in Bayonne, Hugues Labiano moved to Paris after completing his studies in Plastic Arts to start a semi-professional comic artist in 1984. He worked for several fanzines in the early stages of his career. He was part of Canal-Choc in 1989, a collective directed by Christin and Mézières, which also included Philippe Chapelle and Philippe Aymond, and produced a series of albums for Les Humanoïdes Associés. Two years later, Labiano turned to Glénat publishers to create the 'Matador' series with writer Gani Jakupi until 1996. With the famous comics writer Jean Dufaux Labiano began 'Dixie Road', a comic about 1930s America, for Dargaud from 1997 until 2001. In 2003 and 2004, he made the diptych 'Mister George' with text by Serge Le Tendre and Rodolphe in the Lombard collection Signé. Labiano is back at Dargaud for the thriller series 'Black Op' in cooperation with Stephen Desberg since 2005. He additionally wrote and drew the historical adventure diptych 'Les quatre coins du monde' for this publisher in 2012. Text (c) Lambiek