The Morbihannais Thomas Le Petit-Corps30 years old, is Scriptwriter of fictions and youth author. Tia and the world buried, His first comic strip imagined in 2018 and today illustrated by Italian Gabriele Bagnolihas appeared Bayard youth editions June 18, 2025.
With Tia and the buried world, Thomas Le Petit-Corps offers a story inspired by the Taupe people, a population of marginalized people who live underground in several major cities in the United States (New York, San Francisco, etc.). In their comics, the Taupe people secretly live in the seventh level of the catacombs. Tia, a courageous and determined teenager of this community, shares her daily life between the exploration of the underground corridors, the life of her village and the courses given by the Doyenne.
Because the existence of this people is threatened by a large company, the girl will do everything to save hers. Even if it means getting her own people on the back … TIA will brave a crucial rule while going to discover the surface. She will run after the clock and face many dangers, between the cataflics that make laws respect the laws in all underground levels, and the cataphiles that are not always well -intentioned and life on the surface. Tia is often accompanied by Léna, her lifelong friend; She can also count on the help of surfacians, like Elijah the son of the architect in charge of the project, and Maria, a marginal with a big heart who will teach her to make fun of the others.
Biography of Thomas Le Petit-Corps
Living in Saint-Jacut-les-Pins in Morbihan since 2023, Thomas Le Petit-Corps Created to escape and written to make people laugh and entertain with different supports: animation, comics, novels and podcasts … born in October 1990 in Pontivy (56), the child he was discovered by the universe of the novels of Pierre Bottero (1964-2009) and Erik the man (born in 1967); He develops an unlimited appetite for fantastic literature: The Otoris clan, at the crossroads, etc; He is passionate about everything that is magic and fairyland.
In CM2 class at René-Guy-Cadou primary school in Pontivy, Thomas greatly appreciates freedom of writing, anchored in reality or the imaginary in the written expression of his teacher. Later at Romain-Rolland college and the Joseph-Loth high school still in Pontivy, he also speaks through drawing. For his secondary studies, he orient himself, according to his values, to a master’s degree in environmental project management.
The passion for writing continues when he is a young adult. He exercises the profession of engineer in the ecological transition and the management of renewable energies for three years. For the purposes of his profession, he travels across South America, Colombia and crosses Patagonia and the Andes Cordillera for eight months. He takes advantage of the place to document his environment; He then imagines new adventures to tell his own. It is the moment of professional retraining in writing, gradually first, then full -time from 2020.
Back in France, he made his first audio fictions. They are first aimed at adolescents and young adults, then children aged six to ten, for whom he developed around fifty stories made up of ecological fables, horror tales and sound games.
Thomas Le Petit-Corps becomes a scriptwriter of Podcast fictions. He collaborates with the Bababam studio on the Noise series, author of the Silencio series, a dystopia between Black Mirror and Baron Black and Youth Podcasts.
Biography of Gabriele Bagnoli :
36 -year -old Italian designer and illustrator, Gabriele Bagnoli was born in Verona on January 1, 1989, he graduated in communication sciences. He took his first steps in the world of comics. For years, he has been involved in drawing and coloring for children’s fiction.
Gabriele Bagnoli has a modern side in her drawing for which there are some similarities with the manga. His personal touch and his work on colors appealed to Thomas Le Petit-Corps, especially for the cover of Tia and the buried world …
Tia and the buried world. Scenario: Thomas Le Petit-Corps-Illustration: Gabriele Bagnoli. 88 pages. Paper version: € 14.90/ Digital version: € 10.99. Publication: June 18, 2025
