Clément Xavier
Comic Book Writer
Scriptwriting is a fairly solitary exercise. Therefore, I love to write documentary comics, because they are a way of discovering, and meeting other people and other cultures. I'm starting to write a comic project on the Ganges, which will allow me to tackle both cultural and ecological issues.
Clément Xavier was born in Maputo in 1981. After studying at the Angoulême School of Comics, he founded the publishing house Na éditions. He creates comics and Graphic novels: Yékini le roi des arènes, published by Flblb (Winner of the Prix révélation at Angoulême festival in 2015), followed by Geronimo, Mémoires d'un résistant apache et Jujit suffragettes, les amazones de Londres, about suffragettes who train in Jujutsu to defend themselves (winner of the Prix Château de Cheverny for historical comic in 2021) published by Delcourt. Also with the same publisher, he has adapted Gérard Noiriel's Histoire populaire de la France into a comic book. He is also working with the publisher Glénat, writing the undercover investigation by Elizabeth Freeman into the horrific lynching of Jesse Washington (Waco horror, 2020), and with the publisher Actes Sud l'an 2 on a comic about Frances Gabe, a woman who turned her house into a giant dishwasher to escape the household chores so unevenly divided between the sexes (Washing Town, 2022).
