Born in 1973 in Tours, Bruno Chevrier, otherwise known as Nob, has always harbored a boundless passion for all things comics and computers. He set up his first fanzine in college, and earned first prize at the comic book competition of Festival of Grenoble at the age of 16, followed by another prize two years later in Angouleme. He came to Paris in 1994 to pursue his studies in visual expression. Once he'd finished his studies, he got a job with a company that produced merchandise for cartoons, such as "Looney Toons" and "The Simpsons." He then took part in a young talent competition organized by publisher Glรฉnat, which opened the doors of "Tchรด !" magazine to him. Nob soon became one of its pillars, with his series "Bogzzz" (4 volumes between 2002 and 2005) and "Mamette" (6 volumes). Nob served as editor-in-chief and graphic designer of "Tchรด !" magazine from 2001, before handing over the mantle in 2008. Even though Nob's name cropped up from time to time in "Spirou" from about 2004 onwards for his illustrations for Julien Neel's series "Indien et Pingouin," it wasn't until around 2010 that he began to appear more regularly. First it was through the illustration and scripting of a few panels for the "Atelier Mastodonte" collective, led by Lewis Trondheim, of which he became a permanent member. Then in 2013 came his comedy series "Dad" (2016 Europe Comics), which tells the story of a single dad and his four daughters. Readers immediately took to it, and in March 2015, "Dad" was at last published in comic book format by Dupuis. Nob today lives in a small village by the Pyrenees.
Nรฉ en 1973, ร Tours, le Franรงais Bruno Chevrier, dit Nob, a dรฉveloppรฉ dรจs l'enfance une passion sans borne pour la bande dessinรฉe et l'informatique. Il crรฉe son premier fanzine dรจs le lycรฉe et gagne ร 16 ans le premier prix du concours BD du festival de Grenoble, ainsi qu'un prix au concours scolaire du Festival d'Angoulรชme deux ans plus tard. Il s'installe ร Paris en 1994 pour poursuivre ses รฉtudes en Expression Visuelle. Il entre ensuite dans une sociรฉtรฉ chargรฉe de rรฉaliser des produits dรฉrivรฉs de dessin animรฉs (Looney tunes, Simpsons). Il participe alors au concours jeunes talents organisรฉ par Glรฉnat, qui lui ouvre la porte du magazine "Tchรด !". Nob y devient rapidement un des piliers avec ses sรฉries "Bogzzz" (4 albums entre 2002 et 2005) et surtout "Mamette", sรฉrie ร gag entamรฉe en 2006 comptant 6 tomes, ainsi que 3 albums d'une sรฉrie parallรจle, "Les souvenirs de Mamette", et un hors sรฉrie consacrรฉ ร la cuisine. Depuis 2004, Nob dessine et scรฉnarise aussi "Mon ami Grompf", publiรฉ dans "D-Lire" et chez Glรฉnat (9 albums). Nob sera aussi rรฉdacteur en chef et graphiste du magazine "Tchรด !" dรจs 2001, avant de passer la main en 2008. Si on retrouve le nom de Nob dans Spirou dรจs 2004 pour un dessin clin d'oeil ร la sรฉrie "Indien et Pingouin" de son ami Julien Neel, il faut attendre les annรฉes 2010 pour l'y croiser rรฉguliรจrement. D'abord au scรฉnario et au dessin de quelques planches du collectif de "L'Atelier Mastodonte" cornaquรฉ par Trondheim, dont il devient un membre permanent, et ensuite, surtout, en 2013, avec l'apparition de sa nouvelle sรฉrie humoristique, "Dad", mettant en scรจne un pรจre cรฉlibataire et ses quatre filles. Immรฉdiatement plรฉbiscitรฉ par les lecteurs, "Dad" connaรฎt en mars 2015 la joie d'un premier album, "Filles ร papa", dont Nob assure scรฉnario, dessin et couleurs. Il vit aujourd'hui dans un petit village des Pyrรฉnรฉes. Rรฉdacteur en chef du dรฉfunt magazine "Tchรด !" et pilier de celui-ci avec "Mamette", le Franรงais Bruno Chevrier dit Nob a rejoint Spirou et Dupuis en 2010, oรน il s'impose d'emblรฉe avec "Dad", nouvelle sรฉrie ร gags plรฉbiscitรฉe par les lecteurs, sensibles ร son mรฉlange trรจs personnel d'humour et de tendresse.
Born in 1973 in Tours, Bruno Chevrier, otherwise known as Nob, has always harbored a boundless passion for all things comics and computers. He set up his first fanzine in college, and earned first prize at the comic book competition of Festival of Grenoble at the age of 16, followed by another pr...