Alex Varenne

After studying in Lyon, he became a plastic arts teacher.

With his brother Daniel Varenne, he created in 1979 the Ardeur series, named after his hero, published by Charlie Mensuel. Six volumes came out between 1980 and 1987. During World War III, the navigator Ardeur crossed a dystopian Europe, ravaged by atomic radiation. Varenne shows his flexible line and his art of black and white.

In 1985, he published on a screenplay by his brother Daniel Varenne, L'Affaire Landscape.

At the same time, he published in L'Écho des savanes and devoted himself much to eroticism, with Carré noir sur dames blancs (1984), the three volumes of the Erma Jaguar series (1988-1992), Corps à corps (1987), Les Larmes du sexe (1989), Crazy Loves (1991), and the Erotic Opera (1986), Erotic Fragments (1993), and Le Goût des femmes (2002) portfolios. Most are published by Albin Michel.

He published graphic novels for Casterman: Angoisse et Colère (1988, screenplay by Daniel Varenne based on the novel Mars) and Gully Traver (1993).

In 2002, he illustrated Brigitte Lahaie's 12 Signs of Love for Geisha editions, where he published Juliette and other rogue stories in 1999 and Yumi in 2000.

In 2007, a collection of interviews appeared, Itinerary of a libertine.