Jérôme Alquié
Jérôme Alquié (b. April 12, 1975) is a French illustrator, colorist, and writer.
Passionated by the cartoons from the 1980s, he started his career by realizing artbooks and celluloids dedicated to series like Saint Seiya, Ulysses 31, and Captain Harlock. He also designed some concept arts for some figures of Captain Future and Captain Harlock.
Captain Harlock being his favourite universe, he collaborated remotely alongside Leiji Matsumoto himself (the creator of the character) for a 3-issue comic book series titled Capitaine Albator : Mémoires de l'Arcadia ("Captain Harlock: Memories of the Arcadia"). Matsumoto checked and approved his stories and his drawings.
Plus, Richard Darbois, the French voice actor of Harlock in Space Pirate Captain Harlock voiced the pirate in the trailers for Alquié's comics, while Virginie Ledieu, the French voice of Maetel in the original Galaxy Express 999 series, voiced her in the trailer for the second volume. Classy!
Jérôme Alquié created a lot of drawings for DVD releases of several cartoons, including M.A.S.K., Captain Future, Inspector Gadget, Ulysses 31, Saint Seiya, and... Transformers. He always respected the art styles of the source material.
DVD cover art
[edit]Déclic Images
[edit]- The Transformers collection by Déclic Images.
Gallery
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Notes
[edit]- Most of Alquié's drawings for Transformers are based on screenshots from the series, but others are very strongly inspired by the Dreamwave comics (like Volume 1 which copies the first panel of issue 3) or official illustrations (like Volume 24 which copies an illustration from Studio OX).
External links
[edit]- Interview on YouTube.com (with English subtitles)
- Babelio page
- Bedetheque page
