Arthur de Pins has been working, for over a year now, as director and screenwriter on the feature film adaptation of Zombillenium. His love for creating characters paired with his desire to see them through picaresque circumstances have naturally led Arthur de Pins to thrive in the comic books field through three successful series: the erotic series Péchés Mignons (published by Fluide Glacial), the gloomy and fancy Zombillenium (Dupuis) and the animal fable La Marche du Crabe (Noctambule). Before turning to illustration for advertising and media productions, Arthur de Pins began his career with cartoons and has made three short films (including, 'The Crab Revolution' (which won awards in over fifty festivals), TV pilots (Drew Carey's Green Screen Show) and character designs (for the TV show 'Magic').įrom his cartoonist background, he keeps the freshness and expressiveness of characters as well as a taste for derision that we can find looming in all of his drawings. Gretchen Arthur de Pins - 24 cm Lucky Luke Bonhomme - 24 cm Back from Palombia Franquin - 15 cm Recent news from the workshop Party atmosphere at the open doors of the workshop Saturday 23 September 2017 As every year we have opened the doors of our workshop to all enthusiasts, collectors, budding sculptors or simple tourists passing through. (Mar.Arthur de Pins is a French illustrator and comic book author, born in 1977. De Pins, also an acclaimed animator, has a clean, flowing art style-flat blocks of color eschewing black lines-that keeps his opposing scales vivid and seamless, beautifully capturing character movement, and the cluttered space inhabited by humanity.

A tapestry of human behavior unfolds on the beach, mixing larger environmental battles and the sordid actions of individuals. But De Pins’s lens is wider than the world of crabs, and the hero’s interactions with two nature documentarians on their quest to film the square crab reveals the chaos of the human world and its ability to crisscross in any manner it pleases. One day, he stumbles on a way to change his direction and sets into motion a sudden evolutionary leap.

A single square crab, soon to ne named Sunny, begins a journey that changes his life and the lives of all square crabs. The fictional square crabs-who are as sentient and charming as the creatures in Pixar movies-can only move in one direction, a limitation that dictates an anonymous love life, almost perpetual loneliness, and an inability to flee from danger. Shifting from the vantage point of tiny, wandering crabs up to the depiction of larger seaside confrontations and other interactions between humans, this first book of a trilogy tells a tale of varying scales, both physical and emotional.

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