Bonnet/Vanity Benz. Original plate #49 from album T1 "Cuba-Cola" illustrating the scene where Vanity implores the black virgin. Superb quality of execution. Very rare. Graphite, circa 1995. Signed. TBE+. 40 X 50 cm Franck Bonnet (1964) is an all-round artist who has always wanted to make comics "to tell stories". For the past fifteen years, he has been working full-time in a variety of genres, from historical comics to heroic fantasy, and is now eagerly embarking on the Pirates of Barataria series, custom-written by Marc Bourgne. In 1994, Éditions Dargaud offered him the chance to launch his 1st Vanity Benz series, based on a script by Didier Van Cauwelaert (4 volumes). However, he continued at Glénat thanks to Jean-Yves Mitton, who offered him the chance to draw a historical series Attila... mon amour, a 6-volume historical series. He then took part in Folie très ordinaire, a 4-part collective project written by Christian Godard with Christian Rossi, Alain Mounier, Philippe Jarbinet and Emmanuel Moynot. In 2004, he embarked on a more personal 3-volume Vell'a project with Marc Bourgne. In 2006, Jean-Claude Bartoll asked him to draw a contemporary series, T.N.O., which he stopped after T.3, published in 2008. In fact, he combines his other passion for models of fine 18th-century ships by drawing a new pirate and espionage series, Les Pirates de Barataria, based on a script by Marc Bourgne, the first volume of which was published in June by Glénat. With a realistic style and a strong taste for black, Franck Bonnet is a talented cartoonist who never stops improving.