After a short time where he built stage sets in theatres and for circus, Benoît Preteseille (alongside the author Wandrille) created the independant publishing house Warum. A bit later, he created ION, his own inprint, at first his publishing tool for this own endeavors in the narrative and graphic medium, then dedicated to what he considered drawings that needed to be shown.
Benoît Preteseille is doing his own thing since the very beginning, creating some very personnal universe that looks like nothing else, but which is highly influenced by the intense creativity that showed off in the artistic and literature frenchs circles during the early XXe century. Dada, automatic writing, surrealism : it looks like pretty decents sources of inspiration, amongst Fantomas, Erik Satie, Arsène Lupin or Boris Vian.
When he’s not drawing or publishing real nice books that deserves more than an eye or two, he’s also a singer/musician/performer that travels the world with his duo Savon Tranchand : the uncanny Benoît Tranchand, that you really wanna see play live !
Online : www.preteseille.net
Bibliography :
- Le Petit Poucet et l’usine à saucisses (book/record, with Sophie Azambre le Roy and Carl Roosens) (2018, Biscoto)
- È Tutto Vero – Ma Probabilmente Inesatto (2017, Ion)
- Musée spectre (2017, Ion)
- Duchamp Marcel, quincaillerie (2016, Atrabile)
- Histoire de l’art macaque (2015, Cornélius)
- Mardi Gras (2013, Cornélius)
- Maudit Victor (2011, Cornélius)
- L’Art et le sang (2010, Cornélius)
- Savon tranchant (2010, la cafetière)
- Voyage dans Nadja (2009, l’Egouttoir, collection Gorgonzola)
- L’histoire belge (2008, La Cinquième couche)
- Fantômas, le dernier geste (2008, Warum)
- L’oiseau de Francis Picabia (2006, La Cinquième couche, collection extracteur)
- Le livre tranchand ! lettres non signées (2006, Maelstrom, collection Bookleg)
- C’est la guerre (2006, Ticdequai, collection Livre sans poche)
- Sexy Sadie (2006, Warum, collection civilisation)
- L’écume d’écume des jours (2005, Warum, collection civilisation)
- Dadabuk (2005, Warum)
- Les grogneurs (2005, Stratégie alimentaire, collection 33²)
- Al (2004, Ion)
- Héphaïstos aimant les femmes (2004, auto édition, avec Mélanie Berger)
Collectives/zines :
- ChiFouMi & Cie (2014, ChiFouMi)
- Comment réussir dans la BD les doigts dans le nez (2011, Dupuis)
- Le jour du musée (2009, Warum, collection civilisation)
- DMPP#5 Almanach 2009 (2009, The hoochie Coochie)
- Tout devient possible (2008, auto édition)
- Bévue#2 et 4 (2007, 2008, Bévue)
- Comix club#4 et 7 (2007 et 2008, Groinge)
- Je m’appelle Erik Satie, comme tout le monde (2006, Editions de l’œuf)
- Le coup de grâce (2006, La Cinquième couche, collection F.)
- Livre sans poche#1 (2005, Ticdequai)
