Pierre Christin
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- July 27, 1938, Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France
- Movies
- 5
Pierre Christin (born 27 July 1938) is a French comics creator and writer.
Christin was born at Saint-Mandé in 1938.
After graduating from the Sorbonne, Christin pursued graduate studies in political science at SciencesPo and became a professor of French literature at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. His first comics story, Le Rhum du Punch, illustrated by his childhood friend Jean-Claude Mézières, was published in 1966 in Pilote magazine. Christin returned to France the following year to join the faculty of the University of Bordeaux. That year he again collaborated with Mézières to create the science-fiction series Valérian and Laureline for Pilote. The first episode was Les Mauvais Rêves (Bad Dreams).
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2017 | René Goscinny, Our Uncle From Armorica | Self |
| 2017 | Valérian, histoire d'une création | Self |
| 2016 | Generation Sputnik | Self - Comic Writer |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1990 | Hard to Be a God | Writer |
| 1989 | Bunker Palace Hotel | Writer |
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