Dogmatix and the Indomitables Vol. 1

René Goscinny

René Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926. After growing up in Argentina, he came to America where he shared a studio with future Mad magazine co-founder Harvey Kurtzman and collaborators Will Elder and Jack Davis. In 1959, he founded the magazine Pilote which premiered what was to become the most successful comic series anywhere: Asterix. He died suddenly of cardiac arrest in 1977 at the age of 51.

Albert Uderzo

Albert Uderzo was born in France in 1927 to Italian immigrants. In 1959, Goscinny and Uderzo became editor and artistic director (respectively) of Pilote magazine. Their creation, Asterix, became a runaway success. After Goscinny’s death in 1977, with 26 volumes of Asterix complete, Uderzo continued to write and illustrate the Asterix books on his own, publishing 8 volumes. He retired in 2011 but continued to oversee Asterix publications by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad until his death in 2020. The Asterix cover credits still read “Goscinny and Uderzo.”

Matthieu Choquet

Matthieu Choquet was born on April 10, 1980, in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. He is a writer, known for Lastman (2016), Miraculous: The First Saga (2015), and Zak Storm (2016).

Jérôme Erbin

Jérôme Erbin is a Canadian French cartoon writer and also a show writer for Atomic Puppet (series).

Philippe Fenech

Philippe Fenech is the artist of several children’s and humor comics published by Soleil, Vents d’Ouest, and Bamboo. Born in Montpellier, he studied between 1994 and 2000 and subsequently made the gag strip ‘Requin Barjot’ for his local newspaper. Between 2000 and 2002, he divided his time between working as a professor in drawing and cinema, and as a freelance artist for Hachette. He was responsible for several game pages published in the Disney publications by Hachette. He also made the gag series ‘Après La Classe’ for these magazines, in cooperation with writer Dobbs.

Jean Bastide

Jean Bastide is a French comic artist and colorist with a varied body of work. He has worked on historical series like Yslaire’s ‘La Guerre des Sambre’ (2007-2009) and the Victor Hugo adaptation ‘Notre Dame’ (2012-2014) with writer Robin Recht, as well as more humorous work on popular youth franchises like the family gag comic ‘Boule et Bill’ (2016- ) and the ‘Asterix’ spin-off ‘Idéfix’ (2020- ).

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