Fabrice Neaud (born December 17, 1968, in

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Career

Neaud got his baccalaureate in literature (option graphic arts) in 1986. He studied philosophy during two years. Then he entered an art school and studied there four years. In 1991 he quit the school. For four years he had been looking for a job, making a living on various works. He is a co-founder of the Ego comme X association. In 1994, the first number of the ''Ego comme X'' magazine was released. In it, Fabrice Neaud published his first works. It was the beginning of his ''Journal'' (which is a diary in comics), an ambitious autobiographical project. The first volume of the ''Journal'' was released in 1996. It got a prize Alph'art (best work by a young artist) in Angoulême in 1997. Fabrice Neaud keeps on drawing his ''Journal''. Three more volumes have been published between 1998 and 2002. He published also many short stories in ''Ego comme X'', ''Bananas'' and other magazines. Some of his works have been translated into Italian and Spanish. A reviewer notes, "But Neaud isn't a simple diarist: he's also an artist concerned with various problems of our society, including homophobia and gay life in small towns." His works have been the subject of academic papers.

Books

* ''Journal'', Ego comme X : # ''Février 1992 – septembre 1993'', 1996. # ''Septembre 1993 – décembre 1993'', 1998. # ''Décembre 1993 – août 1995'', 1999. # ''Les Riches Heures'', 2002. * 12 pages in ''Neaud/Squarzoni/Mussat'', Ego comme X/La Maison des auteurs, 2004, free book with Xavier Mussat and Philippe Squarzoni. Out of print
Free online
(in French). * « La Cité des arbres », in ''Japon'',

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, coll. « Écritures », 2005. * ''Alex et la vie d'après'', story by

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about AIDS. Free book edited by

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, Bruxelles, 2008. Fre
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(in French). * Émile, 32 pages story, in Ego comme x n°7 (2000). Free onlin
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. Excerpted in ''No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics'' (2012) and translated by Edward Gauvin. * ''Le Dernier Sergent'': ''Les Guerres Immobiles'', (2023), Delcourt: * ''Nu Men'', Quadrants : # ''Guerre urbaine'' (2012) # ''Quanticafrique'' (2013)

References

External links

ego comme x
publisher of the ''Journal''
Fan Siteone-hour video of a conference by Fabrice Neaud

Émile, short story, free English version online
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