Alter Ego - Season 2 - Gail

Born in 1958 in Namur, Denis Lapière started his sociology studies after having had a taste of the thrills of motor racing. In the mid 1980s he was one of the founders of the Tropica BD bookstore in Charleroi, which became the meeting point for many artists. Once he started getting some contacts, Lapière started writing scripts, which gradually found their place in the editorial landscape. He started at Spirou, producing short stories.
He then published his first album in 1987: "Mauro Caldi" (Éditions Michel Constant Mirror). In 1990, he started "Charly" with Magda, a fantasy thriller that had Spirou readers on the edge of their seats. In the years that followed, Denis wrote scripts for several titles in the Aire Libre collection, a new means of expression for adult comics at Dupuis. With Jean-Philippe Stassen, he created "Le Bar du Vieux Français", which won numerous awards around the world.
For Paul Gillon, he wrote "The Last of Cinemas" about the fate of a film producer during the twentieth century. While continuing his adult comics collaborations (with Pellejero and Mezzomo in particular), Lapière continued to work on more family-orientated strips like "Ludo" (with Bailly and Mathy), "Oscar" (with Durieux) and the reboot of "Tif et Tondu" (with Sikorski). In the 2000s, Denis Lapière had several experiences as a film screenwriter (with Pierre-Paul Renders).
He also tried out an editorial role (launching collections Punaise" and "Puceron at Dupuis). In early 2010 he led two major projects: a collaborative work called "Alter Ego" and the new adventures of "Michel Vaillant", which he co-wrote with Philippe Graton. With nearly one hundred albums under his belt, Denis Lapière is one of today's most accomplished writers. Né en 1963 à Bruxelles, licencié en Philologie Classique (UCL) et diplômé en réalisation (IAD, Louvain-la-Neuve), Pierre-Paul Renders vit à Hennuyères avec son épouse et leurs trois enfants. En sortant de l'IAD, il fonde avec cinq condisciples une maison de production (AA Les Films Belges) pour réaliser leur premier long métrage collectif à sketches, d'un surréalisme bien belge, "Les Sept Péchés Capitaux" (1992) pour lequel il commettra le court métrage "La Tendresse".
Après un détour par la télévision et le documentaire (principalement pour Médecins sans Frontières), il réalise, sur un scénario de Philippe Blasband, un 1er long métrage, atypique et inclassable, "Thomas est amoureux" (2001) primé à Venise, Montréal, Angers, Gérardmer, Paris, Espoo, Buenos Aires... En collaboration avec Denis Lapière, il se lance alors dans l'écriture de "Comme tout le monde", un scénario qui donnera lieu en parallèle à une comédie sociologico-sentimentale (2006, avec Khalid Maadour, Caroline Dhavernas, Thierry Lhermitte, Chantal Lauby...) et à une épaisse BD (dessinée par Rudy Spiessert et parue en 2007 chez Dupuis).
En 2006, il imagine le concept de la série "Alter Ego" et la propose à Denis Lapière et aux éditions Dupuis. Depuis 2004, il supervise des exercices d'écriture et de réalisation pour étudiants à l'IAD. Il anime également des stages pour acteurs face à la caméra et pratique occasionnellement le script-doctoring. Depuis 1990, il est aussi chroniqueur BD pour le Journal du Médecin. Ces dernières années, il est devenu accro aux jeux de plateaux, où il peut épancher le trop plein de son tempérament désespérément ludique. Benjamin Benéteau passe son enfance et son adolescence à Tahiti, en Polynésie Française, avant de rejoindre la Belgique pour intégrer l'Ecole Saint-Luc.
Fraîchement diplômé, il peaufine un premier projet de bande dessinée. Dans le même temps, Mathieu Reynès fait appel à lui pour les décors d'un ambitieux et tentaculaire thriller intitulé "Alter Ego". Il collabore pour la première fois avec Denis Lapière, qu'il retrouve pour la Nouvelle Saison de "Michel Vaillant", avec la mission de créer le design des nouvelles Vaillante et les décors de leurs nouvelles aventures. Mathieu Reynès was born in the Paris region in 1977, but spent his childhood on the Basque coast.
After several years of studying science in Bordeaux, he turned his attention to cartoons and 3D animation by joining CNBDI Angoulême, first as a student and then as a tutor. After a few years, he decided to devote himself to comics. His first album, "Banana Fight, " was released by Paquet in 2002, in collaboration with scriptwriter Brrémaud. The duo then created two volumes of the series "Sexy Gun" (éditions Soleil) and three volumes of "Lola Bogota" (Bamboo).
Afterwards he produced several comedy series also published by Bamboo, all co-written with Brrémaud: "Les tennismen" (art by Bertolucci), "Les informaticiens" (art by Toulon), "Toutou & Cie" (art by Soffritt), and "Les Maîtres Nageurs, " which he illustrated himself. In 2007, Mathieu Reynès embarked on the adventure of "Alter Ego" for Dupuis (Europe Comics in English, 2015) alongside Denis Lapière and Pierre-Paul Renders. Meanwhile, he wrote the script for the album "Water Memory, " illustrated by Valérie Vernay, which was released in 2012 by Dupuis ("La mémoire de l'eau") and in 2016 by Europe Comics.
In 2016, Dupuis released his latest creation, "Harmony, " for which he has completed the first three-part cycle (Europe Comics in English, 2016).