Jean-Marc Rochette
Originally from Grenoble, Jean-Marc Rochette was destined to become a mountain guide. In 1976, after a serious accident, he became a comic strip artist. He published in Actuel and l'Écho des savanes, and launched the Edmond le cochon series with Martin Veyron. In 1984, in the magazine À suivre, he and Jacques Lob created the first volume of Casterman's Le Transperceneige series. The 2000s were marked by a more humorous vein, notably Panique à Londres, Scandale à New York, Triomphe à Hollywood, with René Pétillon for Albin Michel.
In 2009, Jean-Marc Rochette moved to Berlin, where for the next seven years he devoted himself almost exclusively to painting.
The film adaptation of Transperceneige(Snowpiercer), by Korean director Bong Jon-ho in 2013, precedes the final publication of the Terminus series in 2015. His autobiography Ailefroide, with Olivier Bocquet, was published in 2018.
Settled in the heart of the Écrins massif since 2017, Jean-Marc Rochette divides his time between painting, drawing and writing. Le Loup (2019) celebrates this territory and questions the subjects that are dear to him: high mountains, ecology, the quest for harmony between man and nature.
After the monograph Vertiges published by Daniel Maghen in 2019, he will publish a book of interviews on painting and landscape with critic Fabrice Gabriel in 2020, published by Paulsen.
