Steve Cuzor

Steve Cuzor was born in Rennes in 1971. After a career as a rodeo cowboy in Texas, he decided to devote himself to his second passion, comic strips. In 1999, he released Blackjack with Casterman, a four-volume series for which he handled both the artwork and the stories. This was followed by volume 3 of the Quintett series, co-created with writer Frank Giroud and published by Dupuis (for which they received the Uderzo Prize), as well as a 22-page graphic novel on the legendary bluesman Lead Belly, written by novelist José-Louis Bocquet and published by Nocturne. In 2009, he worked on the ambitious O’Boys project, first with Philippe Thirault and then with Stephan Colman, blending atmospheres reminiscent of Mark Twain with the legend of Robert Johnson. Then, still with Dargaud, he illustrated XIII Mystery with Laurent-Frédéric Bollée as writer. In 2017, he published the black-and-white edition of Cinq branches de coton noir (Black Cotton Star) with Dupuis (written by Yves Sente), closely followed by the release of the full-color album. In 2018, this book won several awards: the Prix de la BD embarquée at the Rencontres brestoises de la bande dessinée, the Prix Diagonale – Le Soir Award for Best Album in Belgium, and the Coup de Cœur Award at the Quai des Bulles Festival in Saint-Malo. Five years later, still in black and white, the author returned with Le combat d'Henry Fleming, an adaptation of The Red Badge of Courage, a seminal novel of modern American literature written by Stephen Crane, published by Dupuis in the Aire Libre collection. The graphic novel was the subject of an exhibition at the Angoulême International Comics Festival upon its release in 2024, and won the RTL Grand Prix for Comics that same year.