About Jean-Paul Eid

Artist

Canada

Author’s Graphic Novel, Humour

Adult

From 1985 to 1995, Jean-Paul Eid joined the team behind the humor magazine Croc, where he published the adventures of Jérôme Bigras. With transparent pages, interactive scenarios and mirror pages: Eid had fun deconstructing the very language of comics. At the same time, he began a collaboration with playwright Claude Paiement, resulting in the graphic novels La femme aux cartes postales (Grand Prix de la Ville de Québec and Prix ACBD Québec 2016) and the science fiction story Memoria (La Pastèque, 2020). His most recent book, Le petit astronaute, quickly became a bestseller.