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Fabrice A Giger (born 7 January 1965 in
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,
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) is a literary
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and film and TV producer. The son of Swiss painter José Giger, he is well known for publishing thousands of
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/ graphic novels from such authors as
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,
Mœbius Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (; 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012) was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian comics, Franco-Belgian ''bandes dessinées'' (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predomin ...
,
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and
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. In 1988, at the age of 23, Giger took over the Paris-based publishing house 
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 (also known as Humanoids in English), its catalog, and brands such as ''
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'' (from which the American magazine '' Heavy Metal'' was adapted). In less than a decade, he turned it into a multimedia group, involved not only in comic book publishing, but also in CGI animation, visual effects, internet content and software development. In 1995, he co-founded the CGI animation studio, Sparx*, with branches in France and Vietnam, and the production company Sparkling which went on to produce shows such as ''
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'' for which Giger won an
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in 2000 as executive producer. In 1998, in Los Angeles, he founded Humanoids, Inc., the American counterpart of
Les Humanoïdes Associés Les Humanoïdes Associés (or Humanoids) is a French- American publishing house specializing in comics and graphic novels, founded in December 1974 by comic artists Mœbius, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, Philippe Druillet, and financial director Be ...
. In the years 1999-2000, he partnered with directors
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to launch a website featuring original content based on Humanoids titles. The catalog has been a constant source of inspiration for filmmakers and the movie industry in general since the seventies and thus Giger sought to create a digital content platform to combine the talents from these different mediums. Despite producing hours of material, the site never took off due to the unfortunate timing of the bursting of the
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. While having developed and published dozens of new titles every year in various genres since his inception of the company, with most of them having been translated into numerous languages, Giger published a new and limited series of the anthology ''
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'' between 2002 and 2004. A good portion of the original content created for the occasion was later adapted for television with the TV series ''
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'', that Giger exec-produced and which aired in October 2012. At the end of 2004, Giger stepped down from all his duties and took a sabbatical of several years, including one spent in Pondicherry, India, near the
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. In 2008, he resumed his career as the group's CEO and publisher, which subsequently, in 2010, included a successful reboot of the publishing activities in the English language. Following the increasing presence of Humanoids titles in Asia (the best-selling Sci-Fi graphic novel ever, ''
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'', is still the record holder for having the highest sales of a non-Japanese graphic novel in Japan), including China, and in the European markets, Giger announced at the New York Comic Con in October 2018 a major foray into the American comic book industry with the creation of a new line of content and a shared universe. In November 2021, Giger launched the film and television branch of Humanoids with the announcement of the adaptation of ''
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'' into a feature film, that he is producing. Over his career, Giger has continuously developed and published graphic novels and spin-off series within ''
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'' universe, from the best-selling series ''
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'' in 1992 to titles such as ''Psychoverse'', ''Dying Star'' and ''Kill Wolfhead'' in 2022 and 2023. All these titles make up a vast and contrasted universe and are potential material for additional films and television series. Several other movies and television series are being developed and produced by Humanoids and its subsidiaries, including original content such as ''Whiskey On The Rocks'' for
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which started shooting in October 2023.


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