"LE CHÂTEAU DES ÉTOILES" in stores this week! (french edition)

In "le Château des étoiles" ("Castle in the Stars"), the space race begins 100 years early!

The year is 1868. Aeronaut Claire Dulac disappears in a daring high-altitude ballon flight. A year later her husband, engineer Archibald Dulac, and her son Séraphin receive an anonymous letter : someone has recovered Claire's flight log, and promises stunning revelations… The pair travel to Bavaria where they discover that a secret space program has started in king Ludwig's own castle. His goal: to send men into space before 1870!

More pictures and updates (in french) on facebook.

CASTLE IN THE STARS #3 COVER

The third episode (and season finale) of "Castle in the Stars" (Le Château des étoiles") comes out in France on july 9th!

CASTLE IN THE STARS EP. 2

The new installment in the Castle in the Stars ("le Château des étoiles") series hits the stores today! (French edition)

CASTLE IN THE STARS COVER WORK

A short step-by step of the cover to my next book, "le Château des étoiles"... The technique is watercolor on Crescent watercolor board (hot pressed).

CASTLE IN THE STARS part1.1

My next book will be published in France as a 3-part newspaper series (24 pages - 30x40 cm). It's a thrill seeing the printed pages at this size, so close to the original art format. Newspaper #1 comes out in bookstores on May 14th.

"Le Troisième testament" returns (oh, and Happy New Year!)

The turn of the new year has been rather busy with Siegfried signings, Angoulême, and completing work on my next book : "Le Troisième testament : JVLIVS II". This one is drawn by Thimotée Montaigne, who's doing a fantastic job on the characters and the many environements of this sequel to 2010's Robin Recht-drawn JVLIVS. More on this very soon, in the meantime here are a few of my color keys as an apetizer.

Painting in NYC

Color keys for Nibelheim, City of Mists, home of the Nibelungs in the opening scenes of Siegfried Book III — and a 3-hour oil-painted portrait sketch I made in Rick Piloco's great class at the Grand Central Academy.

Troisième testament color keys

Here are color sketches I did for one of the romantic sequences in "Le Troisième testament : Julius". Robin Recht (drawing) and François Lapierre (colors) are wrapping up the book this week. It's exciting to see this whole process finally coming together so beautifuly, thanks to these guy's talents!
Glénat, the publisher, should open a website this month with proper visuals from the book.

"Le Troisième testament" color keys

ANOTHER "TROISIÈME TESTAMENT" COLOR KEY / SET DESIGN

This is the Judean rebel hideout at the end of book 1.

LE TROISIÈME TESTAMENT COLOR KEYS

Inspired by a wonderful time in Barcelona (thanks to Jose & Felix, hi Matteo & Kenny!), I set out to paint a couple of sketches for the troisième testament prequel. The colors of the book will be by the excellent François Lapierre, who he is kind enough to let me contribute with ideas as they come along.

These will also give you a sense of the scale we're going for in this story. More in the next few weeks as we wrap up this epic volume!