The Bleiberg Project - Volume 3 - Patient 302

Born in 1969, novelist David S. Khara has been living in Brittany since the 1980s. During his high school years, he discovered the French literary classics, and after studying law and working for a time as a notary, he became a journalist and ad writer. In 1993, he started his own company, where he would go on to work for 16 years before finally leaving in 2009 to become a full-time writer. He was an instant success, publishing in 2010 the novel 'Le Projet Bleiberg' (Critic), the first volume of a trilogy.
Following its success, the story was turned into a comic book in 2016 by Serge Le Tendre and Frédéric Peynet (Dargaud 2016; 'The Bleiberg Project, ' Europe Comics 2017). Another of the author's books, 'Vestiges de l'aube, ' was also adapted by the same duo in 2015 (Dargaud). Serge Le Tendre was born in Vincennes on the 1st of December, 1946, and discovered in the '70s, after a few small illustration jobs, that he was definitely better at scriptwriting than illustrating. So he abandoned the career he had always dreamed about to start producing scripts for magazines such as Pilote, Antirouille, Fluide Glaciale, Métal Hurlant, Formule 1, Fripounet, and Circus, taking advantage of the drawing skills of Dominique Hé, Annie Goetzinger, Alain Voss, Michel Rouge, Loisel, Max Cabanes, Michel Blanc-Dumont and many others to improve his own craft and style.
This long apprenticeship began to bear fruit in the '80s with "La Quête de l'oiseau du temps" (Dargaud; "The Quest for the Time Bird, " Titan) illustrated by Loisel; an opportunity to collaborate on the first episodes of "Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche" with Makyo and Dodier; the series "Errances de Julius Antoine" for Christian Rossi; and finally "Takuan" with Emiliano Simeoni, and then TaDuc, with whom he subsequently created the series "Chinaman, " published first by Humanos and then by Dupuis (Europe Comics in English 2017).
At the same time, this prolific and versatile scriptwriter pursued his forays into any and all magazines he could: Frilouz, Chic, Astrapi, Je Bouquine, I Love English, etc. He would go on to create the long saga "Taï-Dor" alongside Rodolphe and Serrano (published by Novedi and Vents d'Ouest), and was included in the prestigious Aire Libre collection in 1992 with "L'Oiseau noir, " illustrated by Jean-Paul Dethorey.
More recently, the author has put out such acclaimed series as "Griffe Blanche, " a trilogy published by Dargaud ("White Claw, " Europe Comics 2018), and "Le Projet Bleiberg, " also with Dargaud ("The Bleiberg Project, " Europe Comics 2017), alongside artist Frédéric Peynet. After "La Gloire d'Héra" (Dargaud, 2011) and "Tirésias" (Dargaud, 2011), Le Tendre decides to work on another Greek tragedy and teams up with Peynet to create "Pygmalion" (Dargaud, 2022; Europe Comics in English). Frédéric Peynet was born in 1977 in Saint-Rémy in Southern France.
He studied for three years at the Pivaut school of applied arts, in Nantes, specializing in graphic design for advertising. In 1997, he met scriptwriter Isabelle Plongeon, with whom he would go on to create his first two series, 'Les Apatrides' (Pointe Noire, 2000) and 'Toran' (Nucléa, 2001-2003). The same year, he also became friends with Jean-Charles Gaudin. The pair would work together in the years to come for 'Le Feul' (2005-2009) and 'Phoenix' (2010-2013), published by Soleil.
Peynet also contributed to several collective editions for the same publisher from 2002-2012. In 2013, he joined forces with author Serge Le Tendre for a comic book adaptation of David S. Khara's 'Les vestiges de l'aube, ' published by Dargaud across 2014 and 2015. In 2016, with the same creative and publishing team, he then illustrated 'Le projet Bleiberg' ('The Bleiberg Project, ' Europe Comics 2017), based on a trilogy of novels by Khara.
In 2022, Peynet collaborates once more with Serge Le Tendre to create 'Pygmalion' (Dargaud; Europe Comics in English), the third Greek tragedy penned by Le Tendre.