Alex Alice is coming to the Tokyo BD Festival 2026!

2026-08-16 2026-08-16

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For the 2nd edition of the Tokyo BD Festival, we are delighted to welcome French comics creator Alex Alice with the support of Rue de Sèvres!

Last year, shortly before the festival, Alex Alice visited Japan privately. During a stop at our bookstore, he spontaneously signed numerous books displayed on our shelves, creating an unexpected and memorable gift that delighted many readers.

Known around the world for his masterpiece Castle in the Stars (Le Château des étoiles), this remarkable author will return to Japan this year accompanied by his brand-new series, The Songs of the Black Swan (Les Chants du Cygne Noir). Through his grand, imaginative worlds and the extraordinary refinement of his artwork, Alex Alice has captivated readers for many years. The Tokyo BD Festival will offer a unique opportunity to meet him in person and exchange directly with one of the leading creators of contemporary French comics.

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Alex Alice
(アレックス・アリス)

Alex Alice (born in 1974) is a French comic book creator whose career took off in the early 2000s with the now-iconic series The Third Testament (Le Troisième Testament). He later followed this success with the ambitious Siegfried, inspired by Richard Wagner's operas, a work that earned him the prestigious Spectrum Gold Award, one of the world's leading honors in fantasy illustration.

Translated into more than twenty languages and with over one million copies sold worldwide, Alex Alice reinvented his artistic style with Castle in the Stars (Le Château des étoiles), a series aimed at a broader audience that quickly became a major success. Painted entirely in watercolor, its pages create an enchanting universe inspired by the illustrations of Jules Verne and by the Bavarian castles that Alice discovered in his youth.

Alongside Castle in the Stars, Alex Alice has been developing the trilogy The Chimera of Venus (La Chimère de Vénus) together with Alain Ayroles and Étienne Jung, with the second volume colored by Thierry Laprévotte. In 2026, he also launched a new series, The Songs of the Black Swan (Les Chants du Cygne Noir), opening a new chapter in his creative journey and continuing to explore ambitious new narrative and artistic horizons.