From Favelas to Frozen Deserts, Uncompromising Linework
Corentin Rouge is a comic artist born in Paris in 1983 and a 2006 graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. He began his career in comic art with the publication of a short story (21 contre 1) in the magazine Métal Hurlant in 2004. Since then, he has illustrated three volumes of Milan K. (published by Les Humanoïdes Associés) from 2009 to 2013—the first of which was nominated at the Angoulême International Comics Festival—and the one-shot Juarez (published by Glénat), written by Nathalie Sergeef, in 2012. In 2016, he published the tenth volume of XIII Mystery (published by Dargaud) based on a script by Fred Duval. At Glénat, he is the artist behind the Rio series, co-written with Louise Garcia and published in four volumes between 2016 and 2019, and of the album Sangoma, les damnés de Cape Town (Sangoma, the Damned of Cape Town), based on a script by Caryl Férey, the author of Zulu, in 2021. The duo renewed their collaboration in 2025 with Islander.