Serge Pellé

With his perfect mastery of direct coloring against pencil-drawn backgrounds – sometimes enhanced with gouache, acrylic paint or even oil pastels – Serge Pellé’s pages are highly legible and impressively detailed.

Considered one of the best science fiction series since Valérian (Valerian and Laureline), Orbital enjoys a solid reputation in the comic art market. Among its most notable sales is the cover for Justice, the seventh volume of the series, which sold for €10,720 in 2022. 

To ensure that your pages are kept in good condition, we recommend that you never expose them to direct light, as UV rays can damage the media used to produce them. Although Indian ink is a perennial material, the paper support may change when exposed to UV light. Note that watercolor plates require special attention, as this medium is particularly sensitive to light. Pieces containing pastel or charcoal require special care to avoid rubbing.
We advise you to display them away from windows, and to use frames made of pH-neutral conservation materials and “Museum” glass with anti-UV and anti-reflective treatment. If you prefer to keep your works unframed, we recommend storing them flat, in drawing cartons, with sheets of pH-neutral permanent paper in between. Keep them away from light and humidity.

After starting out in the Paris advertising industry, Serge Pellé switched to comic art following a meeting with Laurent Galmot at Vents d’Ouest in 1993, going on to produce a series of commissioned albums with writer Thomas Mosdi (Golden Tiger, 1996, under the pseudonym Torgnoll) and his first solo album, Le Grand Chambardement (The Great Upheaval, Le Téméraire Editions, 1998). A stint in theater, video games and animation preceded the decisive turning point in his career: the creation, with writer Sylvain Runberg, of Orbital (Dupuis, 2006–2017), a Franco-Belgian space opera spanning seven volumes and a special edition, unanimously hailed as a benchmark in science-fiction comic art. Complete biography.