CHRISTOPHE CHABOUTÉ makes no concessions when it comes to line.
The author, who made his name with Sorcières in 1998, puts feeling into everything he draws.
His favorite color is black and white. He leaves the reader free to add his own. Black and white is simply his mode of expression.
In his head, it's written that the stories he tells are in black and white, to free himself from aesthetic and narrative constraints. He only uses color if it adds meaning to the story.
Born in Alsace in 1967, Christophe Chabouté now lives on the island of Oléron. He fills his boxes with a mastery of silence thought lost since the death of Hugo Pratt and Didier Comès.
Never satisfied with his work, the artist seeks pure emotion at the bottom of the inkwell. He excels in that discipline most of his colleagues shun: inking.
His mind doesn't know the anguish of the inkblot, because accidents open up new graphic avenues, helping him to go beyond codes.
Christophe Chabouté works with sincerity and pure emotion, with an economy of means. The Angoulême Festival recognized this when it awarded him an Alph-Art coup de coeur for the intimate story of Quelques jours d'été in 1999.
Whether he's tackling the monster Landru, or Herman Melville's Moby Dick, he never goes overboard with his imagery.
This solitary creator likes to look at the world in a different way, to take the eye out of its usual habits and decipher the world.
