Booksketch from the early 1980's done in Breda The Netherlands.About the author.Lax
(Christian Lacroix)
(b. 02/01/1949, France)
Christian Lacroix, better known as Lax, studied fine arts in Saint-Etienne. He made his comics debut in the magazine L'Automobile in 1975, and began drawing short stories for magazines like Métal Hurlant, Fluide Glacial, Ère Comprimée and Circus afterwards. He began the animal series 'Hector le Castor' with text by Michel Aubrun in Mecredi and later Fripounet. His first album, 'Ennui Mortel', appeared at Glénat in 1982, also with text by Aubrun. Lax then teamed up with Patrick Cothias and began the historical series 'La Marquise des Lumières' ( in dutch de verlichte markiezin ) at Vents d'Ouest from 1986 to 1989.
In 1987, Lax created his first album as an allround author, 'Des Maux pour le Dire', about his handicapped brother. He has created several albums in the collection Aire Libre of the publishing house Dupuis since 1990. He cooperated with Frank Giroud on the critical stories 'Les Oubliés d'Annam', 'La Fille aux Ibis' and 'Azrayen', all about French wars in the colonies. On his own, he created the romantic 'Sarane' and with text by his son Bertois, he drew 'Soleil cou Coupé'. In the late 1990s, he began working on the series 'Le Choucas', a satirical detective series based on the French "romans noirs" of the 1950s and 1960s.
Source http://www.lambiek.net
