Oger/Buffalo Runner. Original plate #15 illustrating young Mary and her hero in a magnificent chromatic range, illustrating the artist's technical mastery. Direct color in watercolor, gouache and India ink, circa 2014. Signed. TBE+. Quality framing included: 55 X 70 cm Tiburce Oger (1967) is a French comic strip artist. From the age of 12, he declared loud and clear that he would make comics his profession. After graduating with a Baccalauréat in fine arts, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Angoulême, where he stayed for 3 years. "It's not at Beaux-Arts that you learn how to make comics", says Tiburce! So he apprenticed at a cartoon studio, sketching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Denver the Dinosaur. This work enabled him to acquire a fast, varied style. In 1992, Tiburce published the first volume of Gorn with Vents d'Ouest. Three years later, at the Bordeaux Book Fair, he met Denis-Pierre Filippi, who invited him to read his tales. The two joined forces to create Orull, le faiseur de nuages. His cultural references? Fritz Lang, Hitchcock, and his eternal bedside book, The Portrait of Dorian Gray. His early youth was marked by Les Tuniques Bleues. Today, he collects antique weapons, has a passion for horses and is particularly fond of authentic Westerns. He currently lives in the Charentes region, just a few miles from Angoulême and his "corpo friends".