Alain Dodier was born in Dunkirk, France, in 1955 and has no memory of a time without comics. He drew for comics fanzines in the early 1970s and sold his first professional work in 1977. His friendship with Pierre Makyo led to two series: the humorous Gully and, in 1982, the more realistic Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche. Alain has drawn more than two dozen Jerome stories and, after the first few stories, began writing them, too. His work on Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche has earned him two awards at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, one for Best Series and one for Best Youth Series.
