| Séries principales | de | à | Rôle |
|---|
 (Catalogues) Prix Töpffer de la ville de Genève | 2006 |
| 10 ans histoires d'enfance | 2008 | |
| 4x4 (Les) | 1997 | 2000 |
| Agence Hardy | 2001 | 2012 |
| Boîte morte, le vengeur et son double (La) | 1984 |
| Canal Choc | 1990 | 1992 |
| Charlotte et Nancy | 1987 |
| Correspondances de Pierre Christin (Les) | 1997 | 2002 |
| Croisière des oubliés (La) | 1975 |
| Cœurs sanglants | 1988 |
| Demoiselle de la Légion d'Honneur (La) | 1980 |
| Dessine-moi le Bonheur | 2008 |
| Destins | 2010 |
| Diva et le Kriegspiel (La) | 1981 |
| En attendant le printemps | 1978 |
| En douce, le bonheur | 1978 |
| Est-Ouest | 2018 |
| Homme qui fait le tour du monde (L') | 1994 |
| Jeune copte, le diamantaire et son boustrophédon (La) | 1988 |
| Jour où... (Le) | 2007 |
| Lady Polaris | 1987 |
| Leçons du professeur Bourremou (Les) | 1981 |
| Los Angeles (Christin/Bilal) | 1984 |
| Léna | 2006 | 2020 |
| Maison du temps qui passe (La) | 1985 |
| Message du simple (Le) | 1994 |
| Morts sous la Tamise | 1993 |
| Mourir au paradis | 2005 |
| Mycologue et le caïman (Le) | 1989 |
| Nuit des clandestins (La) | 1992 |
| Orwell | 2019 |
| Paquebot | 1999 |
| Paris sera toujours Paris (?) | 1981 |
| Partie de chasse | 1983 | 2013 |
| Phalanges de l'Ordre Noir (Les) | 1979 |
| Pilote (Le journal qui s'amuse à revenir) | 2017 |
| Point de fuite pour les braves | 1986 |
| Rencontre sur la Transsaharienne | 2014 |
| Revue dessinée (La) | 2014 |
| Robert Moses | 2014 |
| Rumeurs sur le Rouergue | 1976 |
| Sixties nostalgia | 1983 |
| Sous le ciel d'Atacama | 2010 |
| Sultane blanche (La) | 1996 |
| Un cercle magique | 1986 |
| Vaisseau de pierre (Le) | 1976 |
| Valérian | 1970 | 2019 |
| Valérian (16/22) | 1979 |
| Valérian - La collection (Hachette) | 2017 |
| Ville qui n'existait pas (La) | 1977 |
| Voleurs de villes (Les) | 1997 |
| Voyageuse de petite ceinture (La) | 1985 |
| Œil du maître (L') | 1990 |
 Après le Mur... | 1990 |
 Bilal & Christin | 1989 |
| Bilal Library | 2004 | 2005 |
 Caçada (A) | 1987 |
| Cidade que não existia (A) | 1982 |
| Cruzeiro dos esquecidos (O) | 1993 |
| Falanges da Ordem Negra (As) | 1988 |
| Incontornáveis de Banda Desenhada (Os) | 2011 |
| Lena (en portugais) | 2021 |
| Navio de Pedra (O) | 1990 |
| Orwell (en portugais) | 2021 |
| Tango do desparecido (O) | 1990 |
| Valerian and Laureline | 2010 | 2017 | |
| Valérian (en langues étrangères) | 2004 |
| Valérian (en portugais) | 1970 | 2011 |
Pierre Christin was born in I938 in the suburbs of Paris. Fascinated by the numbers of "Detective" or the illustrated covers of "Radar, the newspaper that was there", he will later defend a thesis on "The news item, literature of the poor". In the meantime, after having started his studies modestly in a complementary course, he went to the Sorbonne and then Sciences Po Paris. Between his activities as a jazz pianist and his first work in journalism, translation and writing, he left for the American West in the 1960s and was as enthusiastic about ranch life as urban highways, science fiction, thrillers or black music at its peak. Even if he always goes back there, he is today a little angry with the USA where social relations have become much too tough for his taste. In I967, he signed with Mézières the first adventure of VALERIAN, without imagining for a moment the future longevity of his hero. It is also the moment that sees his appointment to the University of Bordeaux, where he creates in I968 what will become the school of journalism, of which he is still one of the leaders. At "Pilote", in the 70s and 80s, he wrote for Tardi, Boucq, Vern, and many others - around sixty albums to date - tackling the most diverse genres, matching his convictions and moods to temperament of each one. He reserves his optimistic, even utopian side, for his old friend Mézières, whose narrative clarity and cheerful humor he appreciates. The more serious subjects, nourished by investigations in what is still at the time the communist bloc, he deals with them with Enki Bilal in certain albums which have become great classics of political comics such as "Les Phalanges de l'Ordre Noir" or "Hunting Party". With Annie Goetzinger, it's a completely different sensibility: portraits of women, intrigue and intimacy as in "La Demoiselle de la Légion d'Honneur" (1980) or "Paquebot" (1999). The profession of screenwriter allows him to explore his vocations which have remained fallow: although he considers himself too talkative for the job, he would have liked to be a spy in order to put together full-scale scenarios. Or a naval officer to have plenty of time to read aboard rotten freighters like the ones he borrowed to write "Lady Polaris", a stroll through the ports of Europe published with Mézières in I987. He would also have liked to be an architect, to build all these cities he has told about, such as Los Angeles in "The Forgotten Star by Laurie Bloom" or the still Yugoslav Belgrade in "Bloody Hearts and Other Miscellaneous Facts" with Enki Bilal. In any case, he will have been a consistent traveler, taking advantage of the imposed immobility – waiting in hotels, train stations, airports – to observe, note, store. He is capable of obsessively walking around a city for days on end, taking pictures (rather ugly but effective) which he then distributes to his designers. But wandering in Patagonia or descending the rapids of the Mekong does not scare him (well, not too much). Wearing his indestructible Westons having trodden the North Cape and the Kalahari, he made a first circumnavigation of the globe by the northern hemisphere in I992, a second by the southern hemisphere in I999, journeys that can be found in "L'homme which goes around the world" (with Philippe Aymond). But he still toured Paris much more often on the abandoned rails of the small belt ("La Voyageuse de Petite Ceinture" with A. Goetzinger, I985) and that of the Petite Couronne by bike ("La Bonne Vie" with Max Cabanes, I999). A novelist, he treats both the city adventure in "ZAC" and "Rendez-Vous en Ville" as well as diving deep into the French countryside in "L'Or du Zinc" (1998). He also approaches the theater or the film scenario ("Bunker Palace Hotel" with Enki Bilal in I989). And, without abandoning comics, he has recently published numerous illustrated works exploring other relationships between texts and drawings in the collection in Italian format LES CORRESPONDANCES DE PIERRE CHRISTIN. Collection for which he worked in particular with Patrick Lesueur, Jacques Ferrandez, Jean-Claude Denis, Alexis Lemoine and Enki Bilal. Considering that, to live happily, you have to live a lot but hidden, he would have liked to have a hundred lives in a hundred cities and almost as many identities.
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