Ed Tourriol

Edmond Tourriol is a French comic-book author. He was born in Talence, Gironde, France in 1974.

Edmond Tourriol at Angoulême festival 2015

He founded Climax Comics studios with his former partner Olivier Dejeufosse. He published with Climax Studios more than 50 fanzines and wrote some of his own comics Reflex and Zero Force. In 2001 he set up his advertising agency Clark System Innovation in partnership with Stephan Boschat. That same year he became a comic book translator for Semic Editions. For the French market he has translated many comic-books such as Superman, Batman, Teen Titans, Invincible, The Walking Dead, Beautiful Killer for Semic and Bamboo editions. In 2003, he founded Makma studios which gather more than 30 comic-book professionals (writers, artists, inkers, colorists, letterers...). They work in free-lance for various publishers in the U.S and in France. In 2004 he sets up SuperPouvoir.com with Nicolas Duverneuil which is now one of the main comic-book websites in France. He has recently resumed his career as a writer. He now writes Zeitnot, a manga penciled by Eckyo and published by Les Humanoïdes Associés. With Stephan Boschat he is the co-writer of Mix-Man, a super-hero penciled by Sid for Milan Presse. Since 2007, he also writes the official Urban Rivals comic book, adapted from the on-line game, penciled by Samuel Ménétrier and inked by Fred Vigneau both working for Makma studios. In January 2011, the first issue of Urban Rivals is published by Kantik editions, it was penciled by Rocio Zucchi, who he had already worked with on Code Néon in Shogun magazine.

He also wrote the soccer-related humoristic comic book called Banc de Touche with Dan Fernandes. The two first volumes of this comic book (La bande à Raymond and Le Grand Fiasco) are inspired by the difficulties experiences by the French soccer team under the management of Raymon Domenech. The series was first published in the sport magazine L’Équipe.

Since 2013, he’s been working with Dan Fernandes, Albert Carreres and Ben KG on the comic book Zlatan Style, which depicts the adventures of the soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimović in Ligue 1 in a humoristic way.


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