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Eric Herenguel (born 1966) is a French
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and
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Biography

Hérenguel made his debut in 1986 with the Jean-Pierre Croquet's short stories for ''
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'' magazine. When the ''Journal de Tintin'' publication ceased, he worked for two years at a publicist's. His work is clearly influenced by movies (mainly science fiction). His first series was ''Carnivores'' written by Jean Wacquet. He did the interior work on ''Ballade au bout du Monde'' (issues #5 to #8 written by Makyo). Later, he collaborated with on ''Les Mémoires d'Edward John Trelawnay'', inspired by the real
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but in a science fiction universe with some
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elements. Then, in 1999, he created Krän ("crâne" which means skull in French), a series of fantasy comic books published in France by
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. The series is a parody of sword and sorcery stories and specifically the role-playing game ''
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'' (''Krän'', the main character is a barbarian). Hérenguel's tongue-in-cheek sci-fi strip ''Kiliwatch'' which appeared in ''Lanfeust'' magazine was published in integral form by Editions Caurette. He currently works as a scriptwriter on the
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series of cartoons for
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and as a draftsman for Delcourt.


Works

This list is not exhaustive. *''Kiliwatch'', 2016, Caurette Editions, 80 p., *''The Kong Crew'', Caurette Editions (English comic books in black and white) **''Ep 1 "Manhattan Jungle"'', 2018 **''Ep 2 "Worse than Hell"'', 2019, **''Ep. 3 "Hudson Megalodon"'', 2021, **''Ep. 4 "Teeth Avenue"'', 2022, **''Ep. 5 "Upper Beast Side"'', 2023, **''Ep. 6 "Central Dark"'', 2024, **''Ep. 7 "Blast Exit!"'', 2025, *''The Kong Crew'', Ankama Editions (French color edition of Caurette comics) **''Manhattan Jungle'', 2019, **''Hudson Mégalodon'', 2021, **''Central Dark'', 2024, *''The Kong Crew - Deluxe Edition'', 2021, Caurette Editions, 152 p., *''The Kong Crew - Complete'' (in black and white), 2024, Caurette Editions,


References

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