Alex Varenne (29 August 1939 – 19 October 2020)[2] was a French comic book artist and writer, known by his erotic works.
In 1979 he created with his brother Daniel the dystopical sci-fi comic book series Ardeur, published at Charlie Mensuel.
While doing work for Charlie Mensuel, Varenne also drew erotic stories for L'Écho des savanes, such as Carré noir sur dames blanches (1984), Erma Jaguar, later published in three volumes (1988-1992), Corps à corps (1987), Les Larmes du sexe (1989), Amours fous (1991), and the portfolios Erotic Opera (1986), Fragments érotiques (1993), and Le Goût des femmes (2002).
[5] For Casterman, Varenne worked on the graphic novels Angoisse et Colère (1988, written by Daniel Varenne adapted from the novel Mars) and Gully Traver (1993).
In 2002, Varenne illustrated Brigitte Lahaie's Les 12 Signes de l'amour for éditions Geisha, where he also published Juliette et autres contes fripons in 1999 and Yumi in 2000.