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Alain Auderset is a Swiss Christian author of bandes dessinées (Franco-Belgian comics) and is best known for his comics albums ''Willy Grunch'', ''Marcel'', and ''ROBI.'' ==Biography== Born on October 27, 1968 in Grenchen, Switzerland, Auderset was converted to Christianity after reading the French comic magazine ''Tournesol'' as a child.〔Story related in''Tournesol'' issue #373, 2011〕 Later, passionate for drawing, he studied graphic arts and began to draw comic strips. In 2001 he released his first book, ''Conventional Wisdom'', which has been translated into six additional languages (German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and Danish) since it was originally published in French. His books ''ROBI'' (2005) and ''Willy Grunch'' (2008) have both won the International Prize for French Language Christian Comics at the Angoulême International Comics Festival.〔(''A Angoulême, Alain Auderset reçoit pour la deuxième fois le Prix international de la BD chrétienne francophone'' )〕 Currently Auderset is self-publishing and claims he has sold approximately 110,000 copies of all his books. Auderset is also a performance artist as well as a guitarist for the band ''Saahsal'' in which his wife Eliane is the lead singer. Since 2010 Auderset has been doing a stand-up comedy routine entitled "The Non-practicing Atheist," touring both in Europe and the Canadian province of Québec.〔("Athée non pratiquant - Le one man show d'Alain Auderset" )〕〔("Alain Auderset - Athée non pratiquant" )〕 During his last Québec tour in 2013 he was interviewed during a service at a church in Drummondville, QC, which was broadcast live through their website.〔(''Témoingnage d’Alain Auderset'' )〕 He was also interviewed on CKZW radio in Montreal. In 2012 Moondog Animation Studio in Charleston, South Carolina raised US$117,534.00 through a crowd funding campaign on Kickstarter to produce five pilot episodes of (''The life and trials of Willy Grunch,'' ) based on Auderset's stories and art. The five pilots were completed and released in early 2013, but apparently no further episodes are slated for production. Currently Auderset lives in Saint-Imier with his wife and their four children. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alain Auderset」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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