Taken under the wing of Tanino Liberatore, co-creator of Ranxerox, the virtuoso Italian artist introduced Guibert to his publishers, who commissioned him to develop a plot about the rise of Fascism in Thirties Germany.
“A lot of what I am doing now comes from the enthusiasm that filled my childhood, the idea that life is something to celebrate.” By the time he entered art school in Paris, he was already working as an illustrator and storyboard artist, so he decided to leave after six months. “One of the first words I spoke was ‘pencil’.” He grew up in the south-east of France in the Basses-Alpes, formerly part of Provence. And finally, collaborating with friends I get along with well but who are also very different from me, so they take me where I’d never go on my own.” The results are a vibrant diversity of projects and approaches from a natural collaborator, whether he is working as writer or artist with his fellow French comics creators, or with his close friends, transforming their memories into unforgettable graphic memoirs.īorn in Paris, Guibert enjoyed a blissful childhood and supportive parents, who nurtured his love of drawing. Then, trying to capture life through reportage. As Emmanuel Guibert turns fifty this year, three overriding goals have come to motivate him: “Making people, especially children, laugh, so that I can get back to the source of my love of comics and give kids all that I felt myself when reading my favourites.
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