Jean-Yves Ferri

Jean-Yves Ferri is a French comics writer and artist, born on 20 April 1959 in Mostaganem, Algeria. He has contributed to the magazine Fluide Glacial since 1993, where “Les Fables autonomes” and “Aimé Lacapelle” appeared. In 2002 he wrote “Le Retour à la terre”, drawn by Manu Larcenet for Dargaud and published in English as “Back to Basics”, the chronicle of a city dweller settling in the countryside. He wrote and drew “De Gaulle à la plage” (Dargaud, 2007). Chosen in 2011 to take over the writing of Asterix, he produced five albums drawn by Didier Conrad, from “Asterix and the Picts” (2013) to “Asterix and the Griffin” (2021), before leaving the series at the end of 2022.