Achdé

Achdé, whose real name is Hervé Darmenton, began his comics career in several fanzines from 1985. He began his professional in the advertising field. He also began illustrating for Midi Libre and several newspapers. He self-published his first comic book in 1988, called 'Destins Croisés'. Achdé joined the publising house Dargaud in 1991. There, he began his series 'CRS = Détresse' with scripts by Erroc and Raoul Cauvin in 1993.

He teamed up with Roger Widenlocher and created 'Fort Braillard' in Spirou, as well as the series 'Woker', about Tarzan on another planet, at Dargaud. With Godard as his scenarist, he started the series 'Doc Véto'. As a scenarist, he began 'La Esmeralda' in cooperation with Jean-Marc Stalner, based on a novel by Victor Hugo. At Bamboo publishers, he started 'Les Damnés de la Route' with Hervé Richez. From 2003, he is the artist of the famous series 'Lucky Luke', created by Morris.