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Undertaker

by Ralph Meyer

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Ralph Meyer

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Born in Paris in 1971, Ralph Meyer was very young when he started to cultivate his taste for drawing and stories. When the time came to think about what to do with his life, it seemed natural to choose comic books.

As an insatiable reader, he enjoyed the slapstick humour of Gaston and the adventures of Blake and Mortimer just as much as the existential problems of tight-clad superheroes populating the Strange comics monthly. His discovery of the work of Giraud (aka Moebius) during his adolescence would later have a considerable influence on his own work.

At 20, he left Paris and moved to Belgium to take illustration classes at the Saint-Luc Institute in Liège. When he finished his three-year course, he began approaching publishers with various different projects, but to no avail.

In 1996, he decided to present his work to writer Philippe Tome, who offered Meyer a particularly sinister plot to work with. A year later, they released the first volume of the Berceuse Assassine trilogy (1997 Dargaud, 2016 published in English by Europe Comics as Lethal Lullaby).

In the meantime, he founded, with other creators, the "Parfois j'ai dur” workshop. This was where he produced Des Lendemains sans nuages, published in French by Le Lombard and as Clear Blue Tomorrows by Cinebook) which he co-illustrated with Bruno Gazzotti, with Fabien Vehlmann writing the script.

Working with Vehlmann, he also started the sci-fi series IAN, published in French by Dargaud; and by Europe Comics/Cinebook in English, and The Undertaker series with Xavier Dorison, which won the Prix Saint-Michel for best illustration in 2015 and Belgium’s FNAC Comics Prize, Belgium in 2016.