Joann Sfar
Joann Sfar was born in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France on August 28th, 1971 and is the Comic Book Artist. At the age of 52, Joann Sfar biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Life and career
Sfar was born in Nice, son of Lilou, a pop star who died when he was three years old, and André Sfar, a lawyer well-known for prosecuting Neo-Nazis. Sfar was raised by his father and maternal grandfather, a Ukrainian soldier from Ukraine's Alsace-Lorraine Independent Brigade (France) during World War II as a result of his mother's early death. According to reports, Sfar's grandfather saved the right hand of the brigade's chief, novelist André Malraux, for which he was granted French citizenship.
Despite the fact that he, alongside artists like Christophe Blain, Marjane Satrapi, and Lewis Trondheim, wanted to create a new scene or a new movement in comics, he is one of the most popular artists of the recent wave of Franco-Belgian comics. Many of his comics were published by the L'Association, which was founded in 1990 by Jean-Christophe Menu and six others. E.g., he collaborated with several of the group's top artists. Lewis Trondheim and David B. Trondheim were married in London. In several countries, the Donjon series, which he created with Trondheim, has a cult following.
His Jewish roots influence some of his comics. Sfar's son is the son of Jewish parents (an Ashkenazi mother whose family was from Ukraine and a Sephardic father from Algeria). He says that there is an Ashkenazi humour in his Professeur Bell series (loosely based on Joseph Bell), while Le chat du rabbin's Le chat du rabbin is clearly inspired by his Sephardic tradition. Les olives noires is a film about a Jewish child growing in Israel at the time of Jesus. The series is similar to Le chat du rabbin in terms of historical and linguistic information.
Fred and André Franquin, as well as Marc Chagall, Cha Chagall, Will Eisner, Hugo Pratt, and John Buscema are among his main influences.
Sfar wrote and directed Gainsbourg: Vie Héroque, a biography of the illustrious French songwriter and singer, of whom Sfar is a self-confessed fanatic. The film, which relies heavily on Sfar's reputation as a comic book artist due to its extensive use of fantasy art, animation, and puppetry, received widespread critical praise in 2010.
Monsters' Shrink, Sfar's book, has been turned into a live-action drama adapted for a live-action drama by Canal plus.
Awards
- 1998: Award for First Comic Book and René Goscinny Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France
- 2000: Nominated for Best Comic Book and for the Youth Award (9 to 12 years) at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
- Nominated for the Best Long Comic Strip at the Haxtur Awards Spain
- Nominated for Best International Writer at the Max & Moritz Prizes, Germany
- 2001: Nominated for Best Scenario and for the Humour Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
- 2002: Nominated for Best Artwork and the Canal BD Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
- 2003: Oecumenic Jury Award and Polish award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
- Nominated for Best Comic Book, for the Canal BD Award, and for the Prix de la critique at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
- 2004: Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême: 30th anniversary prize, France
- Award for Best Youth Album (7 to 8 years) at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
- Best International Series at the Prix Saint-Michel, Belgium
- Nominated for Best Series at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
- Best International Writer at the Max & Moritz Prizes, Germany
- 2005: Nominated for Best Artwork at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
- 2006: Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material at the Eisner Awards, United States
- Nominated for the Audience Award and for Best Series at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
- 2007: Sproing Award, for Best Foreign translated material, Rabbinerens katt (Le chat du rabbin), Norway
- Nominated for Outstanding Series at the Ignatz Awards, United States