'Cassio' #3.
Henri Reculé was born in 1970 in Viña del Mar, Chile, as the son of a Belgian father and and Chilean mother. He and his family moved to Belgium in 1984, where Reculé attended the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Liège, specializing in illustration. While still at Saint-Luc, he won a prize at the Hélecine comic festival with his first comic story.
Comic art by Henri-Joseph Reculé.
A couple of months later, Reculé teamed up with Jean-Luc Sala to create 'Le Grand Veneur', winning a contest held by the Lombard magazine Jet. Reculé and Sala then produced a longer story entitled 'La Légende de Kynan', published in Hello Bédé and in book format in 1993. For the same magazine, Reculé created the medieval saga 'Castel Armer' (1993-1997).
'Le Cercle des Sentinelles', #4.
Reculé subsequently began a long and fruitful collaboration with Stephen Desberg, starting with two books of 'Le Crépuscule des Angles' (Casterman, 1998-99) and the final book in the series 'Le Cercle des Sentinelles' (Casterman, 2000). They subsequently created series like 'Les Immortels' (Glénat, 2001-2005), 'Le Dernier Livre de la Jungle' (Lombard, 2004-2007) and 'Cassio' (Lombard, since 2007). Reculé is also co-writer and cover artist for Desberg's collective comic series 'Empire USA'.
'Les Immortels'.