French series - Xavier Dorison's work
Xavier Dorison is born in Paris in 1972. A business school graduate, he debuted with the series The Third Testament in 1997, which was a critical and publishing success. He then scripted Prophet for Mathieu Lauffray in 2000, Sanctuaire for Christophe Bec in 2001 and W.E.S.T. for Christian Rossi in 2003.
In 2006, he wrote the screenplay for the film Les Brigades du Tigre. In 2007, he began a new comic book series with Matthieu Lauffray, Long John Silver which was a resounding success.
Since 2009, he has also taught screenplay at École Émile-Cohl (Lyon) and at Gallimard as part of the NRF Workshops. He acts as a script doctor on many films.
Between 2012 and 2016, he collaborated with the cartoonist Thomas Allart on the “financial political-fiction” series HSE (Human Stock Exchange), which was noticed in various periodicals.
He also wrote the medieval one-shot Le Maître d'Armes, put in images by Joël Parnotte.
In August 2014, Dorison's resumption of writing for the Thorgal series was made official. The screenwriter then replaces Yves Sente, creative manager of the series and its extended universe. Dorison is working on volume 35 of the mother series, Le Feu écarlate, and on the derivative series Kriss de Valnor, for which he signs the scripts for volumes 6 and 7, in association with Mathieu Mariolle.
After scripting the western-fantastic diptych Ulysse 1781 at Delcourt, he returned to his best-seller Undertaker. Two volumes are coming out in 2017, while another is planned for 2019.
At the same time, he launched a fantastic series at Dargaud, Aristophania. With Félix Delep, he launched Le Château des Animaux, an animal series inspired by La Ferme des Animaux by George Or) well; the first volume appears in 2018.
In 2020, he was recruited from the “Red Team”, a group of 10 science fiction authors responsible for doing foresight for the Ministry of the Armed Forces, imagining “future geopolitical crises and technological breakthroughs involving the military”, in order to to defend the “sovereignty of France”.
In December 2020, he announced the release of a graphic novel about Grendizer, scheduled for October 2021: the story takes place after the end of the animated series.
