Fabien Toulmé
Fabien Toulmé à Martigues en 2018
Born1980 Edit this on Wikidata
OccupationGraphic novelist Edit this on Wikidata
Awards
Websitehttp://fabien-t.blogspot.com/ Edit this on Wikidata

Fabien Toulmé (born 1980) is a French comic book author.

Biography

Fabien Toulmé was born in Orléans.[1] He studied civil engineering and urbanism.[1] In his last year of studies in France, Fabien was able to do an interchange year, choosing the Federal University of Paraíba, in Brazil, and moved to João Pessoa.[2] He opened a engineering firm in Fortaleza and worked as an engineer in Brazil, Benin, and the French overseas departments of French Guyana and Guadeloupe.[3] He practiced this activity without any particular passion and during his stay in Brazil he met his wife, with whom he had two children.[3] A few encounters in the world of Brazilian comics encouraged him to turn to this field.[4] Back to France, he lived for a time in a Parisian suburb (banlieue)..[4]

From 2009, installed in Aix-en-Provence, he started publishing his work on the web and collaborated with magazines such as Lanfeust Mag (where he published a series called Heureux qui comme Alex),[3] Spirou with L'Atelier Mastodonte, Psikopat[1] and Wakou.[5] He then joined Thomas Cadène on his webcomic entitled Les Autres Gens. He also participated in the development of collective works such as Vivre dessous and Alimentation Générale. Noticed by a collection director at Delcourt Editions in 2013, he worked as an engineer during the day and, in parallel, drew his first graphic novel during the evenings.[3][4]

From 2014, his individual albums got published with Ce n'est pas toi que j'attendais (éditions Delcourt), an autobiographical comic book relating the impact on his life of the birth of his daughter Julia, who had Down's syndrome undetected during his partner's pregnancy.[6] In 2017, Les Deux Vies de Baudouin was published, a graphic novel about a man who, discovering he has an incurable cancer, decides to make his dreams come true.[7] The same year, Toulmé published Venenum. La grande histoire du poison, an educational comic book, as part of an exhibition in Lyon.[8] Toulmé quit his job as an engineer and became a full-time comic book author.[3]

In 2018, Delcourt published L'Odyssée d'Hakim (Hakim's Odyssey), a comic book series on the story of a Syrian refugee.[9][10] Volume 1 was nominated for the Prix France Info 2019.[11] Volume 3 won in 2021 the prix France Info for news and reportage comics [12] and, in 2022, the Prix Inspireo des Lycéens.[13]

Works

  • Ce n'est pas toi que j'attendais, 2014, édition Delcourt, coll. Encrages.[14] ISBN 978-2-7560-3550-5
  • Les Deux Vies de Baudouin, 2017, édition Delcourt, coll. Mirages. ISBN 978-2-7560-8225-7
  • Venenum. La grande histoire du poison, 2017, édition Lyon BD.[15] ISBN 978-2-9547148-9-9
  • L'Odyssée d'Hakim, T1 : De la Syrie à la Turquie, 2018, édition Delcourt, coll. Encrages. ISBN 978-2-413-01126-2
    • English edition: Hakim's Odyssey: Book 1: From Syria to Turkey, 2021, translator Hanna Chute , Graphic Mundi - Psu Press, ISBN 978-1-63779-000-7
  • L'Odyssée d'Hakim, T2 : De la Turquie à la Grèce, 2019, édition Delcourt, coll. Encrages. ISBN 978-2-413-01336-5
    • English edition: Hakim's Odyssey: Book 2: From Turkey to Greece, 2022, translator Hanna Chute , Graphic Mundi - Psu Press, ISBN 978-1-63779-008-3
  • L'Odyssée d'Hakim, T3 : De la Macédoine à la France, 2020, édition Delcourt, coll. Encrages. (ISBN 978-2-413-02373-9)
    • English edition: Hakim's Odyssey: Book 3: From Macedonia to France, 2022, translator Hanna Chute , Graphic Mundi - Psu Press, ISBN 978-1-63779-031-1
  • Cher dictateur (writing), art by Caloucalou, colors by Philippe Ory, Audie / Fluide Glacial, August 2019 ISBN 978-2-37878-223-8
  • Suzette ou le grand amour (writing and art),[16] Delcourt, coll. Mirages, June 2021 ISBN 978-2-413-03668-5
  • Les reflets du monde: en lutte, Delcourt, coll. Encrages, June 2022 (ISBN 978-2-413-03899-3)[17]

Awards

Fabien Toulmé (left) et Caloucalou (right) after being awarded the Schlingo Prize in 2020.
  • 2018 : 2018 : Prix Région Centre - Val-de-Loire of the Festival bd BOUM for Hakim's Odyssey;
  • 2020 : Schlingo prize,with Caloucalou, for Cher dictateur.[18]
  • 2021 :France Info Prize for news and reportage comics for Hakim's Odyssey, t.3 From Macedonia to France.[12]
  • 2022 Inspireo des Lycéens Prize for Hakim's Odyssey, t.3: From Macedonia to France[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Éric Goubert (27 January 2018). "Coup de cœur pour les bandes dessinées de Fabien Toulmé". La Provence..
  2. ↑ "Fabien Toulmé, o engenheiro que virou quadrinhista - UNIVERSO HQ". 2021-03-03. Archived from the original on 2021-03-03. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Des horaires de bureau à la maison pour Fabien Toulmé". La Provence. 11 August 2017..
  4. 1 2 3 "Bande dessinée : une preuve d'amour fois (trisomie) 21". La Provence. 6 November 2014..
  5. ↑ "Fabien Toulmé". ArL Paca. 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018..
  6. ↑ "Ce n'est pas toi que j'attendais: un père évoque sa fille trisomique" (in French). 2014. Retrieved 3 February 2018..
  7. ↑ Alice Develey (13 April 2017). "Juste la fin d'un monde". Le Figaro littéraire..
  8. ↑ Aurela Vertaldi (17 June 2017). "Venenum, les mystères du poison en bande dessinée". Le Figaro..
  9. ↑ François-Luc Doyez (1 September 2018). ""L'Odyssée d'Hakim" : quand un réfugié raconte son périple". Les Inrocks.
  10. ↑ Montiveo, Andrew (2022-04-23). "The Arab in Winter: On Fabien Toulmé's "Hakim's Odyssey"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-10-15.
  11. ↑ "Dix titres en lice pour le 25e Prix France Info". Tout en BD. 17 December 2018.
  12. 1 2 Jean-Christophe Ogier (14 January 2021). "Le 27e prix franceinfo de la Bande dessinée d'actualité et de reportage décerné au tome 3 de "L'Odyssée d'Hakim" de Fabien Toulmé". francetvinfo.fr..
  13. 1 2 "Le Prix INSPIREO des Lycéens 2022 est attribué à Fabien Toulmé pour". La France à l’UNESCO (in French). Retrieved 2022-05-30.
  14. ↑ Christophe Ono-dit-Biot; Romain Vachoux (2014). ""Ce n'est pas toi que j'attendais" de Fabien Toulmé par la librairie du Tramway à Lyon". France Culture. Retrieved 3 February 2018..
  15. ↑ Coline Bastard (2017). "Fabien Toulmé conte en BD "Venenum, la grande histoire du poison"". France Info. Retrieved 3 February 2018..
  16. ↑ Vincent Facélina (20 May 2021). "Suzette ou le Grand Amour (Juin 2021)". zoolemag.com..
  17. ↑ "Les Reflets du monde: en lutte". Delcourt. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  18. ↑ Florent D. (1 February 2020). "Fabien Toulmé et Caloucalou reçoivent le 12e Prix Schlingo". ActuaLitté..
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