Yoann Chivard better known under the artist name Yoann is a French comics artist

Comics artist

A comics artist is an artist working within the comics medium on comic strips, comic books or graphic novels. The term may refer to any number of artists who contribute to produce a work in the comics form, from those who oversee all aspects of the work to those who contribute only a part.-Comic...

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In January 2009, it was announced that Yoann and the comics writer Fabien Vehlmann

Fabien Vehlmann

Fabien Vehlmann is a French comics writer best known for Green Manor and Seuls. Yvan Delporte dubbed him "The René Goscinny of the third millennium".-Biography:...

 would take over the responsibility for the Spirou et Fantasio

Spirou et Fantasio

Spirou et Fantasio is one of the most popular classic Franco-Belgian comic strips. The series, which has been running since 1938, shares many characteristics with other European humorous adventure comics like Tintin and Asterix...

comic strip. It had by then for a while been clear that Dupuis

Dupuis

Éditions Dupuis S.A. is a Belgian publisher of comic books and magazines.Based in Marcinelle near Charleroi, Dupuis was founded in 1922 by Jean Dupuis, and is mostly famous for its comic albums and magazines. It is originally a French language publisher, but publishes many editions both in French...

 had plans to replace Morvan

Jean-David Morvan

Jean-David Morvan is a French comics author.Jean-David Morvan studied arts at the Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels. Morvan first tried being a comics artist, but soon realised that his true strength is storytelling, and so now he is best known as a comics writer...

 and Munuera, the duo that had then for some years had the main responsibility for Spirou et Fantasio. Yoann and Vehlmann had by then already created the first volume of Une aventure de Spirou et Fantasio par.... Their first album in the regular series is announced for October 2009.