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Endpoint: Jean-Michel Nicollet (Illustrator)



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created on: 13/01/2026
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Jean-Michel Nicollet (born on February 7, 1944 in Lyon, France) is a French illustrator and comic book author.
Known as an illustrator, particularly for the covers of Éditions Néo, Titres/SF and Folio Junior, he has also illustrated around forty covers for the "Goosebumps" collection.

Jean-Michel Nicollet attended the School of Fine Arts in his hometown, where he met Jacques Tardi, and then the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
His professional career began in 1970 when he submitted illustrations to the monthly magazine Lui.
He continued with some advertising work and created his first covers for the "Folio" collection at Gallimard. In 1972, for the American publisher Harlin Quist, he designed the illustrations for Ionesco's Tale No. 4.
He joined the team at the magazine Métal Hurlant in 1977 and began Ténébreuses Affaires, a series of short fantasy stories written by Picaret and himself.

In 1979, he obtained the Premio Grafico Fiera di Bologna per l'Infanzia, from the Bologna Children's Book Fair (Italy) for Histoire du petit Stephen Girard by Mark Twain , which he illustrated.

He designed numerous covers for various publishers (Néo, Lattès, etc.) and created several books, including *Le Diable *, *Les Poèmes de Lovecraft* , *Les Poèmes de Howard* , and * Harry Dickson* , based on a text by Marie-Paule Vandunthum and Gérard Dôle.
He also co-authored, with Keleck, *Le Rejeton de l'univers* and * Ersatz *.
Between 1995 and 2001, he illustrated more than half of the covers for the French edition of R.L. Stine 's "Goosebumps" series for Bayard, his dark style representing the series' graphic identity in the collective imagination of several generations of children, along with Henri Galeron and Gérard Failly. These covers were used for successive re-editions of the series until September 2023, the date on which a new team of illustrators designed the covers.

He exhibited his pictorial production at the Escale gallery in Paris in 1992.

His work, primarily created using acrylic paint, explores themes of the strange and the supernatural.

Jean-Michel Nicollet taught at the École Émile-Cohl in Lyon.
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on : 13/01/2026