Christophe Gaultier - Donjon Potron-Minet -83 Page 15

Christophe Gaultier is a comic book artist originally from Chateauroux. Degreed in visual communication, he spent ten years working in animation and participated in the critically praised production 'Les Triplettes de Belleville'. He also worked as an illustrator for publishers like Fleurus and Milan and turned to comic book art around the turn of the century. He created his first comic with Alexandre Thomas, called 'Grise Mine' for Éditions Paquet in 2000. By 2006, Gaultier published his first solo comic 'Demi-course et Casquette Motul' with Dupuis. He wrote and drew the one shot 'Le Suèdois' for Futuropolis in 2009 and the historical fiction 'Le Fantôme de l'Opéra', based on the work of Gustave Leroux, for Gallimard between 2011 and 2013. Gaultier then created the diptych 'Tombé du Ciel' with Charles Berberian (Futuropolis, 2011), 'Le Loup-Garou de Solvang' with Jerry Frisen (Les Humanoïdes, 2011), the children's comic 'Les Profondeurs d'Omnihilo' with Thomas Cadène (Bayard, 2013, and he made a comics biography of Gauguin with Maximilien Le Roy for Lombard in 2013. Text (c) Lambiek