Alessandra/Fikrie. Original drawing illustrating... Lot 289

Alessandra/Fikrie. Original drawing illustrating the beautiful heroine. Graphite and watercolor, circa 2006. Signed. A4 format Joël Alessandra (1967) is a French designer with a degree in interior architecture from the École Boulle. He published his first stories in Italy, in the famous magazine Il Grifo. A keen traveler, he has published Fikrie with La Boîte à Bulles, directly inspired by his experience as Art Director in Djibouti from 1989 to 1991, Dikhil, and Fierté de Fer, a travel album about the Djibouti-Ethiopian train. Now based in St Quentin in the Gard region of France, he has published Bad Atmosphère, again with Paquet, and Instinct Sauvage under the Kstr label of Casterman. His latest travelogue, Retour du Tchad (BAB), follows in the footsteps of André Gide along the Chari and Logone rivers. For Casterman, he has produced a 3-volume adaptation of Amin Maalouf's novel Le Périple de Baldassare, which this time takes us to the territories of the Middle East. Joël Alessandra regularly travels abroad, particularly to Africa, to give talks at cultural centers and Alliances Françaises. He is also a contributor to numerous collective albums published by Petit à Petit, illustrates for the advertising and communications industries, and works on numerous web-documentaries combining comics and reportage.