Lewis Trondheim

Laurent Chabosy — far better known by his pen name Lewis Trondheim — was born on 11 December 1964 in France. He came to prominence in the early 1990s, around the same time he helped establish the influential independent publisher L'Association in 1990, which became a significant force in alternative Franco-Belgian comics.

Trondheim has built a body of work spanning more than 150 books across an impressive range of genres, from fantasy and the supernatural to autobiography and children's fiction. He is perhaps most widely recognized for *Les formidables aventures de Lapinot* (published in English as *The Spiffy Adventures of McConey*), his long-running autobiographical series *Les petits riens* (*Little Nothings*), and above all the comic fantasy series *Dungeon*, co-created with frequent collaborator Joann Sfar. Two of his other works, the silent comic *La Mouche* and *Kaput & Zösky*, were each adapted into animated cartoons.

His visual style is immediately distinctive — minimalistic and reminiscent of *ligne claire*, populated with "potato-shaped" characters and anthropomorphic animals. Tonally, his storytelling tends toward witty, surreal, and darkly comic territory, often allowing genuine tragedy to surface beneath the humor. Across a career now stretching into the 2020s, Trondheim has remained remarkably prolific, contributing as writer, artist, inker, colorist, and letterer across hundreds of published issues.