{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox person |name=Max Cabanes |image=Max Cabanes 20100410 BD-Aix 4.jpg |birth_date={{birth date and age|1947|09|22|df=y}} |birth_place=Béziers, Hérault, France |occupation= Comics artist, illustrator}} '''Max Cabanes''' (born 22 September 1947) is a French illustrator and comic book author, best known for his fantasy series ''Dans les villages'' (published since 1977) and for his comic books recounting the lives of young people in the 1960s and 1970s (''Heart-Throbs'',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rothschild |first=D. Aviva |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KuXEEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22max+cabanes%22&pg=PA68 |title=Graphic Novels: A Bibliographic Guide to Book-Length Comics |date=15 April 1995 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-0-313-07991-7 |language=en}}</ref> ''Les Années pattes d'eph''’, ''Bouquet de flirts'').<ref>{{Cite web |title=Max Cabanes : bibliographie, photo, biographie |url=http://www.bdparadisio.com/scripts/detail.cfm?Id=528 |access-date=16 December 2025 |website=www.bdparadisio.com}}</ref> Comfortable with all drawing techniques and able to excel in a wide range of genres (fantasy, social commentary, detective stories), he was awarded in 1990 the Grand prix de la ville d'Angoulême, the highest honor for a French-speaking comics author.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 January 2021 |title=Max Cabanes {{!}} BD 2020 |url=https://openagenda.com/bd2020/events/max-cabanes |access-date=16 December 2025 |website=OpenAgenda |language=en}}</ref>
== Published works == === Comic books ===
=== Periodical === ''Dans les villages'' : # ''Dans les villages'', AUDIE, 1977. In subsequent editions it is titled ''La jôle''. # ''L'Anti-jôle'', Dargaud, 1982 # ''La Crognote rieuse'', Dargaud, 1984 # ''Le Rêveur de réalité'', Dargaud, 1986 # ''L'École de la cruauté'', Dupuis, coll. « Expresso », 2005 # ''Une Fuite, deux horizons'', Dupuis, coll. « Expresso », 2006 # ''La Déroute des synapses'', Dupuis, coll. « Expresso », 2008 * ''Contes fripons'', AUDIE, 1979<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Schtroumpfanzine |number=35 |date=November 1979 |author=Henri Filippini |title=Contes fripons |page=24}}.</ref> * ''Rencontres du 3rd{{#if:sale|{{nbsp}}sale}} type'', Dargaud, coll. « Pilote », 1982 * ''Bains d'encre'', Futuropolis, coll. « Hic et nunc », 1982 * ''Le Roman de Renart'' (dessin), avec Jean-Claude Forest (scénario), Futuropolis, coll. 30/40, 1985 # ''Colin Maillard'', 1989 (English ''translation:Heart-Throbs'', Catalan Communications, 1991) # ''Maxou contre l’athlète'', 1997 * ''Les Années pattes d'eph’'', Albin Michel, 1992<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Critix |date=Winter 1992–1993 |author=Évariste Blanchet |title=Les Années pattes d'éph' |page=14-15}}.</ref> * ''Bouquets de Flirts'', Albin Michel, 1996 * ''Bellagamba'' (art), with Claude Klotz (writer), Casterman, coll. # ''La Chasse aux ombres'', 1999 # ''Les Saisonniers'', 2002 * ''La Maison Winchester'', Glénat, coll. « La Loge noire », 2004 * ''La Princesse du sang'', Dupuis, adapted from the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette * ''Fatale'', with Doug Headline (scénario), Dupuis coll. « Aire libre», adapted from the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, 2014{{cn|date=December 2025}} * ''Nada'', with Doug Headline (writer), Dupuis coll. « Aire libre », adapted from the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, 2018 * ''Morgue pleine'', with Doug Headline (writer), Dupuis coll. « Aire libre», adapted from the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette, 2021<ref>{{cite web|author1=Max Cabanes |date=27 October 2018 |via=interview with Emmanuel Lafrogne |title=Max Cabanes : "Coller à l'esprit de Manchette" |url=http://www.toutenbd.com/interviews/article/max-cabanes-coller-a-l-esprit-de |website=Tout en BD|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190424124303/https://www.toutenbd.com/interviews/article/max-cabanes-coller-a-l-esprit-de|archive-date=24 April 2019}}<!-- auto-translated from French by Module:CS1 translator -->.</ref>
=== Children's albums ===
* ''L’Homme qui fait le tour du monde'' written by Pierre Christin, with Philippe Aymond (drawings), Dargaud, 1994
Max Cabanes has illustrated youth novels, including:
* ''Concertino'', by Jean-Henri Potier, L’école des loisirs, 1978 * ''La Chanson des sirènes'', by Michel Piquemal, Milan, 1998 * ''Petit lexique des sorcières'', by Marie-Charlotte Delmas, Syros jeunesse, coll. * ''La Course du guépard, by'' Jean-Charles Bernardini (éditions Mango Jeunesse, coll. ''Le cercle magique'', 2002)
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Category:French comics creators Category:1947 births Category:Living people Category:People from Béziers Category:French illustrators Category:Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême winners