Fred Campoy

Fred Campoy was born in Pau, France, in 1973.

After studying art for two years he started an art studio with his childhood friend Roland Pignault. They studied and worked independently for three more years before signing their first Franco-Belgian comic: Arcanes (Delcourt, 1998). This album reflects Fred’s love of action comics, adventure and comics-inspired graphics.

He then went on to publish two volumes of a parody western with Will Lupano called Little Big Joe (Delcourt, 2000-2002).

It is with his brother Bruno and another childhood friend, Olivier Paille, that he brought an old project to life: the science-fantasy trilogy SHRÖG (Vents d’Ouest, 2005-2007), followed by Kookaburra Universe tome II (Soleil, 2009).

He then wrote the Karma Salsa trilogy (Dargaud, 2012-2014): a modern-day detective graphic novel combining action, suspense, spirituality… and salsa!

In 2014, with Mathieu Blanchot, he began researching and working on his Alexandra David-Néel four-part biopic project. Grand Angle published the first volume in 2016, with a volume every subsequent year.

The 4th and last volume came out In June 2020.

This series titled Une vie avec Alexandra David-Néel — A life with Alexandra David-Néel — has found a very large audience.

Fred is now working on his next project, volume I of a French triple Olympic champion biopic, due to be published in the first quarter of 2022 by Delcourt.

Along with creating graphic novels, Fred Campoy teaches drawing and illustration at the Arts and Design college of Pau (ESAD Pyrénées).

Fred also works as a screenwriter.

WORKS

ARCANES – Tome 1
With Roland Pignault and Daniel Pécau, Ed. Delcourt, 1998
LITTLE BIG JOE – Tomes 1 & 2
With Will Lupano, Ed. Delcourt, 2000 and 2002
SHRÖG – Tomes 1 & 2
With Bruno Campoy and Olivier Paillé, Ed. Vents d’Ouest, 2005 and 2007
KOOKABURRA UNIVERSE – Tome 2
With Olivier Paillé, Ed. Soleil, 2009
KARMA SALSA – Tomes 1 to 3
With Joël Callède and Philippe Charlot, Ed. Dargaud, 2011 to 2014
UNE VIE AVEC ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL – Tomes 1 to 4
With Mathieu Blanchot, Ed. Grand Angle, 2016 à 2020
TONY, L’ENFANT DES RIVIERES – Tome 1
With Elsa Krim, Ed. Delcourt, 2022