Jean-François Miniac

Who is Jean-François Miniac?

Jean-François Miniac, better known under his pen name Solidor, is a French comic book creator. He was born in Paris born, February 17, 1967, and lives in France.

After a few drawing lessons taken at Hergé from 1976 to 1978, in 1987 he had a formal training in the visual arts at the Gobelins School of the Image in Paris.

In 1994, Claude Lefrancq, a Belgian comic publisher, asked Rosalind Hicks to publish Hercule Poirot's comic book, showing her the Blake and Mortimer's comic book, Mortimer versus Mortimer. In 1995, with the novelist François Rivière, French Agatha Christie specialist, Miniac drew his first cartoon series, "Agatha Christie", published at Lefrancq publishing, in Edgar P. Jacobs's spirit, in schematic style. It was a success.

After the publisher went bankrupt in 2000, EP publishers published the comic books, the first one in October 2002 and the second one in February 2003. In four years, 20 000 copies of each have been sold in France.

In July 2007, Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express were released by Harper Collins UK as a comic strip, adapted by François Rivière and illustrated by Solidor.