Gilles Chaillet

As a child, Gilles Chaillet read Tintin magazine, and decided that, some day, he wanted to work as a comic artist. Apart from a few gags published in Tintin magazine in 1966, he had to wait until 1977 before he could call himself a professional artist for the magazine, when he took over the artwork of the series 'Lefranc' from its creator Jacques Martin. Between 1965 and 1977, he worked for Studios Dargaud, where he worked for reviews like Bonjour Bonheur, Chez Nous and Les Grandes Classiques du Roman Film.

With Roger Pierre and Jean-Marc Thibault he worked on 'Maudits Rois Fainéants' and 'Z'Heureux Rois Z'Henri'. He did a lot of coloring for other series ('Achille Talon', 'Blueberry', 'Tanguy et Laverdure'), and created the last two pages of a 'Barbe-Rouge' adventure for an ill Victor Hubinon. He illustrated several small books by Guy Vidal featuring the adventures of Idéfix, the little dog from the Astérix comics, by Albert Uderzo.

In 1976, Jacques Martin was looking for someone to take over his series 'Lefranc' and chose Chaillet. Chaillet cooperated on the series until 1996. In 1980 Chaillet's own comic, 'Vasco', also appeared in Tintin. During the eighties, he did the historical texts in Jacques Martin's educational 'Voyages d'Orion' books. From 2001, he writes the scripts of the 'Tombelaine' series for Bernard Capo. Also present at Glénat, he made 'La Dernière Prophétie' and 'Le Quatrième Pouvoir', the latter illustrated by Olivier Mangin.