
Christophe Arleston, born Christophe Pelinq in Aix-en-Provence in 1963, is a French comics writer and one of the leading names in Franco-Belgian fantasy. With artist Didier Tarquin he launched Lanfeust de Troy at Soleil in 1994, which grew into a whole universe — Trolls de Troy with Jean-Louis Mourier, then Lanfeust Odyssey and Les Guerrières de Troy. He also writes Les Forêts d'Opale, Les Naufragés d'Ythaq (published in English as Ythaq: The Forsaken World) and Ekhö Mirror World. In 2019 he founded the fantasy and science-fiction publisher Drakoo with Olivier Sulpice.