'7 Cadres'.
Gabriel Rouffié is a French painter and comic creator, known in the small press scene for his comic books about African-American music and for his nose-faced characters.
Life and career
Gabriel Rouffié was born in 1997 in Talence, a town in the Gironde department of France. Raised among comics, he has visited the annual Angoulême comics festival since the age of six. His main artistic influences are the comic artists Jean-Marc Reiser, Winshluss, Robert Crumb and Riad Sattouf.
Educated in art at Bordeaux Montaigne University, he first made his mark in the French indie comics scene with 'Nuit Blanche' (2019) and 'Comment jouer (naïvement) comme Thelonious Monk' (2020), two self-published screen-printed fanzines dealing with the history of African-American music. After a while, he began to develop a characteristic nose symbol, replacing faces in his comics and acting as a recurring entity among the other drawn elements. Active in the Bordeaux zine and serigraphy scene, his art has appeared in the magazine of the 2022 Zine Fest, and in the auto-edited magazine L'Insolente (2023).
'7 Cadres'.