Aristophane

A graduate of the French schools École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the École européenne supérieure de l’image, Aristophane began work "preoccupied with evil and frailty as viewed through the lives of demons and mythological creatures.

"[1] His first work to receive attention was his 300-page graphic novel Conté Demoniaque ("Demonic Tale"): an epic set in hell inspired by Dante's Inferno, Paradise Lost, the philosophy of Max Stirner and the artist Gustave Doré.

[3][4] Sometime during 1998, Aristophane suffered a domestic accident that left him severely burned on the face and hands[4] and was hospitalised in Nantes.

[5] Following this accident he burned all the original art of his breakthrough work Conté Demoniaque and Faune, which he considered blasphemous after converting to Hinduism.

[4][6] His last published work during his lifetime was the story "La Sentinelle" ("The Sentinel") in Ego Comme X no.