Olivier Pâques original comic art

Olivier Pâques is a Belgian comics artist, best-known for drawing the historical comic 'Loïs' for Jacques Martin since 2003. Pâques was born in Uccle in 1977, and attended the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels. His neighbor, comics artist Pascal Zanon, introduced him to Jacques Martin, who took him under his wings. His first assigment was assisting Christophe Simon on the backgrounds of his two albums in the series 'Lefranc' in 2001 and 2002. After this apprenticeship, Martin asked him to illustrate 'Loïs', a series about a young painter at the court of Louis XIV in Versailles. Pâques quickly settled in a classical drawing style, with a specialization in the detailed depiction of boats. His drawings clearly echo the work of his tutor, but also of comics artists like Marc-Renier, Félicísimo Coria and Jacques Denoël.