Patrick Prugne

Patrick Prugne began drawing at a very young age, honing his craft by studying and emulating the artists he admired most: Pratt, Manara, Juillard, Loisel… He began his career as an advertising illustrator before turning to comics. His first work, a pastiche of La Fontaine’s fable The Hare and the Tortoise, received the Alph-Art Avenir award at the Angoulême Festival in 1990. This recognition opened the doors to publishers, and in 1991 he began, with Goupil as writer, the humorous series Nelson et Trafalgar for Vents d’Ouest, which met with immediate success.

In 1999, he illustrated the fantasy story Fol, before embarking on L’Auberge du bout du monde, a trilogy created with Tiburce Oger and published by Casterman.

Still alongside Tiburce Oger, he published the highly acclaimed Canoë Bay ten years later with Éditions Daniel Maghen, before going on to author Frenchman in 2009, Pawnee in 2013, Iroquois in 2016, and Pocahontas in 2022. In 2018, he stepped away for a time from Native American sagas to create Vanikoro, a work in which he magnificently evokes the tragic fate of the navigator Lapérouse. His body of work also includes Poulbots, published by Éditions Margot in 2015, as well as his recent journey through Normandy with Rodolphe in Écoute s’il pleut, published by Maghen in 2024. In 2026, Patrick Prugne returns to Native American sagas with Cheyennes, published by Maghen.