Guillaume Trouillard

Guillaume Trouillard (Pau, 1980) decided in kindergarten that he wanted to be a comic book artist. In 1998, he entered the Beaux-Arts d’Angoulême art school, and two years
later created the “Les 6 berbères sont douze” collective, which exhibited at the Angoulême festival.

In 2003, on his return from a trip to Kurdistan, he launched Éditions de la Cerise and the graphic arts magazine Clafoutis.

In 2007, he won the Prix du Public at the Bassillac festival, and the 2008 Prix BD des lecteurs de Libération for Colibri, a comic strip inspired by Chinese megacities.
The following year, he and fellow artist Samuel Stento were awarded the Prix Fnac – Sinsentido for La Saison des Flèches, also an official selection at the 2010 Angoulême Festival. The Aquaviva project was launched the same year, then put on hold when his first daughter was born, and he began work on Welcome, Inventaire pour l’enfant qui vient de naître, to be released in 2013.

The firstAquaviva book came out in 2015. In 2020, he publishes Les Quatre détours de Song Jiang, a book-accordion tribute to the Chinese scrolls, with Alex Chauvel on the script.

For over ten years, he has been performing drawn concerts alongside his brother Antoine, and has just taken part in the creation of the show Aux Champs d’honneur by the company Les Parcheminiers, combining dance, drawing and music.

At Villa Medici, Guillaume Trouillard is working on Aquaviva, a muted post-apocalyptic tale planned over 200 pages in length, depicting an entirely manufactured, 100% artificial world where the hand of man is everywhere. His aim is to create a bridge between a fast-paced, realistic narrative that doesn’t neglect the spectacular, and abstract graphic compositions based on fiddling and experimentation.