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Pascal Mesenburg (born 1960, Drancy, France), pen name Mezzo, is a French cartoonist.
Biography
Mezzo was influenced by 1960s-1970s rock album covers and the American underground scene, including artists like Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, Robert Williams. These influences provided an "electric" counterpoint to his Franco-Belgian and older American influences.
In 1978, he enrolled at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art in Paris but chose to focus on music rather than completing his studies. Concurrently, he published illustrations in various fanzines, graphzines, and Parisian magazines such as Rock en Stock, Best, Zoulou, L'Écho des savanes, Playboy, Métal Aventure. He participated in advertising campaigns for brands such as Pall Mall, Dupuy Saatchi, and Renault.
In 1988, he began collaborating with Michel Pirus, focusing primarily on comics while continuing to work in graphic design and illustration.
His work King of the Flies (Le Roi des mouches), with the first volume published in 2005, received critical acclaim and was translated into Spanish, Dutch, and English. He collaborated with Pirus on the script.[1]
In 2014, he released Love in Vain, which depicts the life of blues musician Robert Johnson, with the script written by Jean-Michel Dupont.[2]
Bibliography
- With Michel Pirus, scenarist
- 1991 : Les Désarmés T.1, éd. Zenda
- 1993 : Les Désarmés T.2, éd. Zenda
- 1995 : Deux tueurs, éd. Delcourt
- 1996 : Un monde étrange (6 short stories published initially by Humanoïdes Associés in collection « Frank Margerin présente »), éd. Delcourt
- 1997 : Mickey Mickey, éd. Delcourt [3]
- 2005 : Le Roi des mouches, T.1, Hallorave, éd. Albin Michel - (Official selection of Angoulême International Comics Festival 2006)
- 2008 : Le Roi des mouches, T.2, L’Origine du monde, éd. Drugstore (Glénat) - (Official selection of Angoulême International Comics Festival 2009)
- 2010 : Les Désarmés (full version reworked and recolored), éd. Drugstore (Glénat)
- 2013 : Le Roi des mouches T.3, Sourire suivant, éd. Glénat - (Official selection of Angoulême International Comics Festival 2014)
- With Jean-Michel Dupont, scenarist
Awards
2008 : Prix de la BD du Point, with Michel Pirus, for King of the Flies, vol 2 : The Origin of the World.[5]
References
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