Olivier Ledroit

With Les Chroniques de la Lune Noire, Olivier Ledroit and Froideval have given birth to an entirely new genre of which they will become the standard-bearers: gothic comic art. In a world halfway between the gothic, the esoteric and steampunk, each page becomes a veritable fresco teeming with detail, where sensuality and the macabre coexist. The reader’s eye is constantly drawn to a detail, a flash of light, a touch of colour that adds depth to this rich universe, where the action unfolds at a breakneck pace. Olivier Ledroit has established himself as one of the leading artists in contemporary comic art. 

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Olivier Ledroit began his career as an illustrator for gaming magazines before teaming up with François Froideval to create the series Chroniques de la Lune Noire (Zenda, 1989, then Dargaud), a benchmark in the medieval fantasy genre of the 1990s — he illustrated the series up to volume 5. He reunited with Froideval in 2001 for an instalment of Les Arcanes de la Lune Noire (Dargaud), a prequel to the series. Through his publishing house, Nickel, he co-published Requiem (2000) with Pat Mills – a gothic saga featuring a soldier reincarnated as a vampire knight – as well as Sha (Soleil, 1996–1999). The success of Requiem led to the spin-off series Claudia, chevalier vampire (Nickel, 2005), illustrated by Franck Tacito. In 2003, Daniel Maghen published his anthology L’Univers Féerique, followed by the collective volume L’Univers des Dragons (Daniel Maghen), in 2007. Ledroit has established himself as a master of the gothic genre in comic art. Complete biography