1. Didier Conrad was born on 6 May 1959 and is a French comics artist and writer.
15 Facts About Didier Conrad
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Didier Conrad was born in Marseille of parents originally from Switzerland.
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Didier Conrad developed a passion for comics and, at age 14, he sent a page to Journal de Spirou that was published in a page reserved for new talents.
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Five years later, in 1978, Conrad published his first comics series in the magazine: "Jason", written by Mythic.
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Les Innommables was originally written by Didier Conrad, who was busy drawing "Jason", and drawn by Yann, but recognising their respective strengths, they eventually switched tasks.
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Yann and Didier Conrad went in search of a new magazine to publish their work and ended up at Circus, a publication recently launched by publisher Glenat.
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Two albums telling a single time-travelling story about a hunt for a white dinosaur were published, but Yann and Didier Conrad fell out before the end and Didier Conrad finished the second story with his girlfriend Sophie Commenge as writer.
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Didier Conrad published no new album in the second half of the 1980s.
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In 1990, Didier Conrad returned to Dupuis, the publishing house behind Spirou magazine, which had somewhat modernised since the early 1980s and had launched a new album collection called "Aire Libre" giving authors some editorial freedom.
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Didier Conrad reused his character Ernest Poildu in a new two-part story called "Le Piege Malais" and published a limited run album called "Tatum: La Machine Ecarlate".
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Didier Conrad then produced a new series titled "Donito", the adventures of a little boy who talks to animals which is set in the Caribbean.
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In 1994, Didier Conrad reunited with Yann to resurrect their now cult series Les Innommables, which had ended abruptly when they were sacked by Spirou.
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In 1996, Didier Conrad was hired by DreamWorks Animation to work on the film The Road to El Dorado.
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Didier Conrad moved to the United States to do so, but continued to work on comics as well, working simultaneously on Les Innommables, Kid Lucky then Cotton Kid, and more Bob Marone stories for Fluide Glacial magazine.
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Didier Conrad drew seven Tigresse Blanche albums in total, the first two written with Yann and another five with Sophie Commenge, now using the pen name Wilbur.