Rodolphe

Rodolphe D. Jacquette is one of the most successful present day French scenario writers. His oeuvre contains several genres, like adventure, fantasy and police stories. Rodolphe has a large imagination, and a good sense of mise en scène.

After obtaining his degree in Literature, Rodolphe Jacquette became a teacher and afterwards a librarian. When he met Jacques Lob in 1975, he started writing stories. That same year, he wrote the first episode of 'Le Conservateur', illustrated by a debuting Jean-Claude Floc'h. In the second half of the 1970s, Rodolphe worked for famous magazines like Pilote, À Suivre and Métal Hurlant. Here, he worked with artists like Annie Goetzinger, Jacques Ferrandez and Michel Rouge.

In the early 1980s, he launched such series as 'Raffini' (with Ferrandez) and 'Les Écluses du Ciel' (with Michel Rouge and later François Allot in Circus and Vécu). He wrote mainly comics for Circus (with Ferrandez), Vécu (with Cordonnier), Métal Hurlant (with Didier Eberoni) and Charlie Mensuel (with Picotto and Alexandre Coutelis). His longtime cooperation on short stories with Jacques Ferrandez resulted in two albums in 1986, 'Outsiders' and 'Le Vicomte'. He also launched the 'Cliff Burton' series with Frédéric Garcia and later Michel Durand. In the later 1980s he created albums with Jacques-Henri Tournadre and André Juillard.

In 1990, Rodolphe wrote 'Blaireau' for Boëm and 'Melmoth' for Marc-Renier. A year later followed the 'L'Autre Monde' saga with Florence Magnin. Rodolphe co-wrote the 'Taï-Dor' series with Serge Le Tendre (artwork by Jean-Luc Serrano and Luc Foccroulle). Again with Le Tendre, he launched 'La Dernière Lune' in 1992 (artwork Antonio Parras). Besides comics writer, Rodolphe is also a poet, organiser of expositions and a critic.