PHILIPPE MIGNON
French illustrator (1948)
Biography:
Philippe Mignon was born the 21st December 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He studied architecture at Fine Arts School of Paris, but later he decided to devote himself to illustration. At the beginning he illustrated for newspapers but from 1985 on he has been drawing model-sheets for animation films. He has created many famous characters for TV and he still works for many editors.
Works illustrated by Philippe Mignon:
Rudyard Kipling, Le Livre de la jungle, Grasset, 1987.
Joseph Kessel, Le Lion, Gallimard, 1987
Alphonse Daudet, Tartarin de Tarascon, Gallimard, 1987.
Charles Perrault, Le Chat Botté, Nathan, 1990.
Christian Léourier, Le chemin de Rungis, Gallimard, 1990
Von Chamiso, La merveilleuse histoire de Peter Schlemihl, Gallimard, 1991.
Hans Christian Andersen, La Petit Sirène et autres contes, Gallimard, 1992.
Jean-Paul Nozière, La malédiction du corbeau, Bayard, 1992.
Claude Gutman, La maison vide, Gallimard, 1993.
Jack London, Croc-Blanc, Nathan, 1994.
Jean de La Fontaine, Fables, Nathan, 1995.
Alphonse Daudet, La dernière classe et autres contes, Gallimard, 1995.
Alain Surget, Le renard de Morlange, Nathan, 1995.
Jo Hoestlandt, Le Pouvoir d'Aimé, Actes Sud Junior, 1998.
Jack London, L'appel de la forêt, Nathan, 1999.
Nathalie Daladier, Le plus beau vase d'Ulysse, Gallimard, 1999, coll.
Les aventures de chevalier Huon, adaptated by François Suard, Flammarion, 2000.
Leon Garfield, Le temps des héros, Gallimard, 1994.