The Brizzi Brothers’ Journey

Gaëtan and Paul Brizzi, twin brothers, were born in 1951. Gaëtan lives in south of France near Nîmes, and Paul in Washington, D.C. The brothers are animation films directors, but they also paint and illustrate classic novels. In their early years, they were noticed for the special originality of their animated shorts, and one of them, Fracture, was nominated for several César Awards in 1977. They created their own company and directed their first animated feature Astérix et la surprise de César. In 1989 they worked for Disney and, in 1994, moved to Los Angeles. Among the many productions, they supervised sequences of The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and directed the finale sequence of Fantasia 2000, The Firebird Suite. In 2015, they began working for publishing companies and created their first graphic novel at Futuropolis editions, La cavale du Docteur Destouches, adapted from the story of the French novelist Louis Ferdinand Céline and written by Christophe Malavoix. From then on, they decided to focus on graphic adaptations from classical novels. These adaptations included: Boris Vian’s Autumn in Beijing, Honoré de Balzac’s Contes Drolatiques, Daniel Maghen’s Dante’s Inferno, Don Quixote with Futuropolis editions, and in 2025, Phantom of the Opera.