Andreas (comics)

German comics writer

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Andreas
Andreas at the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2013
Born	Andreas Martens (1951-01-03) 3 January 1951 (age 73) Weißenfels, Germany
Nationality	German
Area(s)	artist, writer, colourist
Pseudonym(s)	Andreas
Notable works	Cromwell Stone Capricornus Rork
Awards	Prix Bonnet d’âne

Andreas, pen name for Andreas Martens, born 3 January 1951 in Weißenfels (Germany). Martens studied in Düsseldorf at the Academy of Fine Arts and at the St. Luc comics school in Belgium, assisting Eddy Paape on Udolfo, before relocating to France.

He made his debut in the magazines (À suivre), Le Journal de Tintin and Heavy Metal. In 2001 he won de Prix Bonnet d’âne^[1] at the comic festival Quai des Bulles in Saint-Malo (France) for his entire oeuvre. This includes that he may draw the poster for the next festival.

His genre series include Arq, Cromwell Stone, Cyrrus, Rork and its spin-off, Capricorne, as well as a number of single works such as La Caverne du Souvenir (The Cave of Memory), Coutoo, Dérives (Adrift), Aztèques, and Révélations Posthumes (Posthumous Revelations).^[2]

Comic books by Andreas

Cromwell Stone

Cromwell Stone (1986)
Le retour de Cromwell Stone (1994)
Le testament de Cromwell Stone (2004)

Cyrrus

Cyrrus (1984)
Mil (1987)

Capricorne

1. L'Objet (1996)

2. Electricité (1996)

3. Deliah (1997)

4. Le cube numérique (1998)

5. Le secret (1999)

6. Attaque (2001)

7. Le Dragon bleu (2002)

8. Tunnel (2003)

9. Le passage (2004)

10. Les Chinois (2005)

11. Patrick (2006)

12. --No Title-- (2007)

13. Rêve en cage (2008)

14. L'Operation (2009)

15. New York (2011)

16. Vu de près (2012)

17. Les Cavaliers (2013)

18. Zarkan (2014)

19. Terminus (2015)

20. Maître (2017)

Rork

0. Les fantômes (2012)

1. Fragments (1984)

2. Passages (1983)

3. Le cimetière de cathédrales (1988)

4. Lumière d'étoile (1988)

5. Capricorne (1990)

6. Descente (1992)

7. Retour (1993)

8. Les oubliés (2002)

Arq

1. Ailleurs (1997)

2. Mémoires 1 (1998)

3. Mémoires 2 (1999)

4. Racken (2000)

5. White Dust (2001)

6. Réveil (2002)

7. Dorro Zengu (2003)

8. Retrouvailles (2005)

9. Feu Croisé (2006)

10. Tehos (2007)

11. Maître noir (2008)

12. Mission (2009)

13. Détectives (2010)

14. Intrus (2011)

15. Lune (2012)

16. Rêves 1(2013)

17. Rêves 2 (2014)

18. Ici (2015)

Mobilis

(With Christian Durieux)

Heurts (2000) (ISBN 2-84055-409-7)
Seconde Chance (2001) (ISBN 2-84055-550-6)
Manipulations minutieuses (2002) (ISBN 2-84055-818-1)

Books about Andreas

Yves Lacroix et Philippe Sohet (dir.), Andreas. Une Monographie, Mosquito, 1997
Yves Lacroix et Philippe Sohet, L'Ambition narrative. Parcours dans l'œuvre d'Andreas, Éditions XYZ, 1999 (ISBN 2892612667)

References

^ "Andréas". Quai des Bulles. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
^ "Andreas, Andreas Martens". lambiek. Retrieved 11 September 2014.