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Trondheim has written or drawn more than a hundred titles, spanning a large spectrum of genres; some of the most notable are:
* The spiffy adventures of McConey , which mix satire and fantasy. The main characters are all animals: for instance McConey is a shy and easygoing rabbit, while Richard is an engaging cat with a loud mouth and a knack for getting into trouble. The stories alternate between modern France and stock historical settings. The recurring characters in the series can be thought of as actors who don't always play the same people, but always play the same type of roles.
* Dungeon , co-written with Joann Sfar, an extremely ambitious series which attempts to chronicle a Dungeons & Dragons-like dungeon through three separate epochs. The tone varies from heroic to comic to rather dark.
* Several children comics, among them: Le roi catastrophe , drawn by Fabrice Parme, a series about a boy king; Monstrueux , featuring a young French family resembling Trondheim's, and their pet monster Jean-Christophe; Kaput and Zösky , featuring space aliens, which in recent years, has been converted into a Television program; and more recently A.L.I.E.E.E.N., an "alien children book" Trondheim jokingly claims to have found in a country field while on vacation.
* Collections of short, modern comic strip fables, sometimes starring simplified, potato-shaped characters, the bulk of which has been published by L'Association
* Autobiographical comics, such as those collected in Approximate Continuum Comics, which later formed his book Approximativement; as well as his more recent Carnet de bord series . Newer autobiographical comics are regularly published on his blog under the title Les petits riens .
* Various conceptual comics, such as Le dormeur and Psychanalyse, both of which were created entirely with a single photocopied panel, while Bleu and La nouvelle pornographie are both billed as "abstract comic books". After Psychanalyse, Trondheim was challenged by J.C. Menu to write a story with only 4 different panels, drawn by Menu. After some strips, Trondheim asked for four more panels, and wrote the highly dense comic book, Moins d'un quart de seconde pour vivre. Such constrained writing achievements, reminiscent of OuLiPo writers, were a huge incentive for OuBaPo's creation.
About English translations
Two volumes of McConey have been published in English by Fantagraphics in editions close to the original. Fantagraphics has also published a range of shorter pieces by Trondheim in the comic The Nimrod. NBM has published Dungeon, both in comic book and graphic novel formats, as well as Little Nothings, a collection of autobiographical one-page vignettes. English versions of A.L.I.E.E.N. and Le Roi Catastrophe have been published by First Second.
Awards
* 1994: Award for First Comic Book at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, France
* 1999: 2 nominations for the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material
* 2000: Best German-language Comic—Import at the Max & Moritz Prizes, Germany
:: - Inkpot Award, USA
:: - nomination for the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material
:: - nominated for Best Long Comic Strip at the Haxtur Awards, Spain
* 2001: nomination for the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material
:: - nomination for the Humour Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
:: - nomination for Outstanding Story at the Ignatz Awards, USA
* 2002: nomination for the Harvey Award for Best Presentation of Foreign Material
:: - nomination for the Dialogue Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
* 2004: Best International Series at the Prix Saint-Michel, Belgium
:: - nomination for the Series Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
* 2005: Series Award at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
:: - nomination for the Prize for Artwork at the Angoulême International Comics Festival
* 2006: Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême, France
* 2007: nominated for the Ignatz Awards for Outstanding Series
* 2008: nominated for the Eisner Awards for Best Short Story and Best Lettering
* 2010: nominated for the Eisner Awards for Best Publication for Kids and Best U.S. Edition of International Material
:: - nominated for the Award for Best Youth Comic at the Prix Saint-Michel
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