Fabrice Colin

Fabrice Colin was born on 6 July 1972 in Paris, France, and is a French novelist and comics writer whose work spans fantasy, science fiction, and magic realism for both adult and younger readers. He is best known in comics for co-creating *The Chimera Brigade* (also published as *La Brigade Chimérique*), a series that blends pulp adventure with a deeply researched alternate history of 1930s Europe. Colin’s path into comics came from his established career as a prose author; he brought a literary sensibility to the medium, writing scripts that emphasize atmosphere, moral ambiguity, and historical texture. His signature style in comics is dense and allusive, often weaving real figures and events into fantastical narratives. Key collaborators on *The Chimera Brigade* included artist Serge Lehman and illustrator Stéphane de Caneva, with whom he built a richly layered world of super-soldiers and secret societies. Beyond that series, Colin has written standalone graphic novels such as *Klei* and contributed to anthologies. Later in his career, he continued to write novels while maintaining a steady, if occasional, presence in comics through 2023. His work has earned recognition in French genre literature, including the Prix Imaginales and the Prix du Livre Jeunesse, though he remains less widely known in English-language markets. Colin’s legacy is that of a versatile storyteller who used comics to explore the boundaries between history and myth.