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Christophe Arleston
Christophe Arleston in March 2010
Christophe Arleston in March 2010
BornChristophe Pelinq
(1963-08-14) 14 August 1963 (age 60)
Aix-en-Provence, France
Pen nameScotch Arleston
NationalityFrench

Christophe Arleston (born Christophe Pelinq, 14 August 1963) is a French comics writer and editor. He has also worked as Scotch Arleston.[1]

Biography

In his early childhood, Christophe Arleston lived in Madagascar, Macon and Paris before returning to Aix-en-Provence. He studied journalism at Marseille. He started his career by working as a journalist and later in communications. He started writing radio drama for France Inter.

In 1992 he started writing comic books for Soleil Productions. In 1994 he published Lanfeust of Troy. In 1998 he created Lanfeust Mag, a monthly comic strip. Since 2021, he is the head of Drakoo Editions, a fantasy comics publishing house.

In 2010, he was the bestselling comics author in France, with 1.5 million albums sold that year. Between 1980 and 2023, he was estimated to have sold 15 million albums.[2] To this day, he has written over 250 books.

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Notes

  1. ^ Interview Scotch Arleston, BD Sélection, 5 January 2005 (in French)
  2. ^ "Arleston, Van Hamme et Uderzo, les "millionnaires" de la BD". TF1. 28 January 2011. Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
  3. ^ Thierry Groensteen et collectif (2003). Primé à Angoulême : 30 ans de bande dessinée à travers le palmarès du festival (in French). Angoulême: Éditions de l'An 2. p. 103. ISBN 2-84856-003-7.

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