Daniel Ceppi (3 April 1951 – 4 November 2024) was a Swiss comics artist.[1] He was the author of the series Template:Ill.
Life and career
Born in Geneva on 3 April 1951, Ceppi was the great-great-great-grandson of the inventor Template:Ill. At the age of 16, he exhibited a stained glass window in Carouge. He attended the Template:Ill and self-published a novel titled Le Guêpier about a traveller named Stéphane Clément.[2] In 1977, he published the first album in the series.[3] During the 1980s, he began publishing with Casterman, switching from his previous publisher, Les Humanoïdes Associés.[3] At the same time, he began publishing his illustrations in the magazine Métal hurlant.[4] He then published editions 4 through 7 of the Stéphane Clément series under the title Une Aventure de Stéphane from 1981 to 1985.[5]
Ceppi returned to Les Humanoïdes Associés in 1991 and wrote of Stéphane Clément travels to Cameroon, the Philippines, and Indonesia.[6] In 2009, the publisher released a full collection of his works in the original black and white.[7] After a hiatus, he returned to comics in 2017 with the one-shot Lady of Shalott, which told a story about the world of art in Geneva. This edition brought Stéphane Clément together with others in CH Confidentiel.[8]
Ceppi died on 4 November 2024, at the age of 73.[9]
Publications
Stéphane Clément, chroniques d'un voyageur
- Le Guêpier (1977)
- À l'Est de Karakulak (1978)
- Le Repaire de Kolstov (1980)
- Les Routes de Bharata - La Malédiction de Surya (1983)
- L'Étreinte d'Howrah (1984)
- Captifs du chaos (1986)
- Pondicherry, filiation fatale (1995)
- Belfast, l'adieu aux larmes (1997)
- Vanina business (1999)
- L'Or bleu (2001)
- L'Engrenage turkmène (2010)
- Le Piège ouzbek (2012)
Others
- L'Ombre de Jaïpur (1981)
- Croco & co (1986)
- La Nuit des clandestins (1992)
- Les Aventures de Natrix (1993)
- Corps diplomatique (1991)
- Nom de code (2006, 2007, 2008)
- Lady of Shalott (2017)