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L'Écho Des Savanes
''L’Écho des Savanes'' is a Franco-Belgian comics magazine founded in May 1972 by Claire Bretécher, Marcel Gotlib and Nikita Mandryka. It featured the work of French and international authors and graphic artists in mature-oriented comics over the course of 34 years and temporarily ended publication in December 2006. It was relaunched in 2008. History The first issue of ''L’Écho des Savanes'' was published on May 1, 1972. It was the only issue that year, although popular demand caused it to be reprinted in several editions. All its pages (except for the cover) were in black and white and exclusively contained the work of its founders, Bretécher, Gotlib and Mandryka. Marked as a publication for adults, it staked a different course than ''Pilote'' magazine, the family-friendly publication the founders had a long relationship with. Over the following two years, it was a quarterly publication. Only near the end of this period, work by other creators began to appear, such as Ale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Jones (artist)
Jeffrey Catherine Jones (January 10, 1944 – May 19, 2011) was an American artist whose work is best known from the late 1960s through the 2000s. Jones created the cover art for more than 150 books through 1976, as well as venturing into fine art during and after this time. Fantasy artist Frank Frazetta called Jones "the greatest living painter". Although Jones first achieved fame as simply Jeff Jones and later as Jeffrey Jones, after 1998 she transitioned to female and added Catherine as a middle name. Early life Jeffrey Durwood Jones was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. As a child, her father was overseas in the military. She graduated from Georgia State College in 1967 with a degree in geology and was keenly interested in art and admired the work of Johannes Vermeer, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, and Rembrandt. Career Jones moved to New York City to pursue an art career and quickly found work drawing comics pages for King Comics, Gold Key Comics, ''Creepy'', ''Eerie' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanino Liberatore
Gaetano Liberatore (born 12 April 1953), better known as Tanino Liberatore, is an Italian comics author and illustrator. His best known fictional character is RanXerox. Life and work Born in Quadri (province of Chieti), Liberatore went to high school in Pescara where he met comics artist Andrea Pazienza. He later finished his architectural studies at the University of Rome. From 1974 to 1978, he designed record covers for RCA. In 1978 he met Stefano Tamburini and published his first work in Tamburini's comics magazine '' Cannibale''. In 1978 RanXerox was born, a cyborg-punk, ultra strong creature created by Tamburini. Several stand alone hardcover albums ensued, translated in several languages. In 1980 he involved in the foundation of the magazine ''Frigidaire''. Liberatore's work has been republished in several international comics magazines (''Transfert'', '' Métal Hurlant'', ''A Suivre'', ''L'Écho des savanes'', ''Chic''). The cover of Frank Zappa's ''The Man from Utopia'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Giménez (comics)
Carlos Giménez (born 16 March 1941) is a Spanish comics artist. Biography Giménez was born in Madrid. His father, a welder, died shortly after his birth, and subsequently Giménez lived for years in an orphanage. Aged 17, he showed his drawings to Manuel López Blanco, who hired him as assistant for his works for Ibergraf agency. After 1962, he shared a studio with Esteban Maroto and Adolfo Usero, executing war stories for Editorial Maga and the series Buck Jones. After a period working for the Selecciones Illustradas agency at Barcelona, in 1963 Giménez launched ''El Gringo'', a western series, for Toutain; for the same publisher he also worked to several romantic comics books. In 1967-1968 he worked at ''Delta 99'', a science fiction series, and produced several humour stories for the German market (Tom Berry and Kiko 2000). The following year, Giménez began his first famous series, Dani Futuro, with script by Víctor Mora: initially appearing in the magazine ''Gaceta J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Forest
Jean-Claude Forest (11 September 1930 – 30 December 1998) was a French writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of character Barbarella. Biography Jean-Claude Forest was born in Le Perreux-sur-Marne, a Paris suburb and graduated from the Paris School of Design in the early 1950s and immediately began working as an illustrator. While at the Paris School of Design Forest drew his first comic strip, ''Flèche Noire'' (The Black Arrow). After creating ''Le Vaisseau Hanté'' (The Ghost Ship) he illustrated several issues of ''Charlot'', a popular French comic book series loosely based on Charlie Chaplin. Forest eventually became the premier cover artist of French publisher Gallimard's leading French science-fiction paperback imprint, ''Le Rayon Fantastique'', also drawing covers for numerous French newspapers and magazines including ''France Soir''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Crepax
Guido Crepas (15 July 1933, in Milan – 31 July 2003, in Milan), better known by his pen name Guido Crepax, was an Italian comics artist. He is most famous for his character '' Valentina'', created in 1965 and very representative of the spirit of the 1960s. The ''Valentina'' series of books and strips became noted for Crepax's sophisticated drawing, and for the psychedelic, dreamlike storylines, generally involving a strong dose of erotism. His work was often politically motivated too, inspired by his Communist convictions. A film based on his work called ''Baba Yaga'', featuring the character Valentina, was made in 1973. Works Valentina stories * '' The Lesmo Curve'' (1965) * ''The Subterraneans'' (1965) * ''The Descent'' (1966) * ''Un Poco Loco'' (1966) * ''Ciao, Valentina'' (1966) * ''The Force of Gravity'' (1967) * ''Funny Valentine'' (1967) * ''Valentina in Sovietland'' (1968) * ''Valentina in Boots'' (1968) * ''Marianna in the Country'' (1968) * ''Fearless Paper Doll Valen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Michel Charlier
Jean-Michel Charlier (; 30 October 1924 – 10 July 1989) was a Belgian comics writer. He was a co-founder of the famed Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Pilote''. Life Charlier was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1924.De Weyer, Geert (2005). "Jean-Michel Charlier". In België gestript, . Tielt: Lannoo. In 1945 he got a job as a draughtsman in Brussels with World Press, the syndicate of Georges Troisfontaines, which worked mainly for '' Spirou'' magazine. The following year he and artist Victor Hubinon created the four-page comic strip ''L'Agonie du Bismarck''. Charlier wrote the script and also drew the ships and airplanes. In 1947, Charlier and Hubinon began the long-running air-adventure comic strip ''Buck Danny''. After a few years, Charlier stopped all work on the drawings and concentrated only on the scenarios, on the advice of Jijé, then the senior artist at ''Spirou''. Unable to support himself writing comic scripts at a time when Dupuis concentrated almost solely on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berni Wrightson
Bernard Albert Wrightson (October 27, 1948 – March 18, 2017), sometimes credited as Bernie Wrightson, was an American artist, known for co-creating the Swamp Thing, his adaptation of the novel ''Frankenstein'' illustration work, and for his other horror comics and illustrations, which feature his trademark intricate pen and brushwork. Early life Wrightson was born October 27, 1948, in Dundalk, Maryland. He received training in art from watching Jon Gnagy on television, reading comics, particularly those of EC, as well as through a correspondence course from the Famous Artists School. His artistic influences were Frank Frazetta, Al Williamson, Al Dorne, Graham Ingels, Jack Davis and Howard Pyle. He published a piece of fan art, containing a headstone bearing the inscription "Berni Wrightson, Dec. 15, 1965", on page 33 of Warren Publishing's ''Creepy'' #9 (cover-dated June 1966). Career In 1966, Wrightson began working for ''The Baltimore Sun'' newspaper as an illustrator. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wallace Wood
Wallace Allan Wood (June 17, 1927 – November 2, 1981) was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, widely known for his work on EC Comics's titles such as '' Weird Science'', ''Weird Fantasy'', and ''MAD Magazine'' from its inception in 1952 until 1964, as well as for ''T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents'', and work for Warren Publishing's ''Creepy''. He drew a few early issues of Marvel's '' Daredevil'' and established the title character's distinctive red costume. Wood created and owned the long-running characters ''Sally Forth'' and ''Cannon''. He wrote, drew, and self-published two of the three graphic novels of his magnum opus, ''The Wizard King'' trilogy, about Odkin son of Odkin before his death by suicide. Much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood; some people call him Wally Wood, a name he claimed to dislike. Within the comics community, he was also known as Woody, a name he sometimes used as a signature. In addition to Wood's hundreds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Veyron
Martin Veyron (born 27 March 1950 in Dax, Landes, France) is a French comic book author and novelist, best known for his graphic novels and editorial cartoons. His style combines disenchanted vaudeville and scathing studies of mores in the manner of Gérard Lauzier. Career Veyron graduated from the Collège Stanislas de Paris. In 1975, he founded the Imaginon studio with Jean-Claude Denis and Caroline Dillard. He published his first illustrations in ''Lui'', ''L'Expansion'', and ''Cosmopolitan (magazine), Cosmopolitan''. His first comics date from 1977, when he wrote ''Edmond le cochon'' (drawn by Jean-Marc Rochette) for ''L'Écho des savanes''. He wrote ''Raoul et Remy'' for ''Pilote'' in 1978 and ''Olivier Désmoreaux'' (under the pseudonym Richard de Muzillac) in 1984. His works were published by Éditions du Fromage at Casterman and Éditions Albin Michel. Many of his cartoons were published in newspapers such as Libération, Paris Match, L'Obs, and L'Événement du jeudi. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Tardi
Jacques Tardi (; born 30 August 1946) is a French comic artist. He is often credited solely as Tardi. Biography Tardi was born on 30 August 1946 in Valence, Drôme. After graduating from the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ..., he started drawing comics in 1969, at the age of 23, in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Pilote'', initially illustrating short stories written by Jean Giraud and Serge de Beketch, before creating the political fiction story ''Rumeur sur le Rouergue'' from a scenario by Pierre Christin in 1972. In the English language, many of Tardi's books are published by Fantagraphics Books, edited and translated by Fantagraphics' co-founder Kim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Pichard
Georges Pichard (17 January 1920 – 7 June 2003) was a French comics artist, known for numerous magazine covers, serial publications and albums, stereotypically featuring partially exposed voluptuous women. Biography A native of Paris, he was educated at the École des Arts Appliques, and after World War II worked as illustrator in advertising before publishing his first cartoon strip in ''La Semaine de Suzette'' in 1956, featuring a "girl next-door" character named Miss Mimi. In the early 1960s he met Jacques Lob, with whom he collaborated on the superhero parodies ''Ténébrax'' and ''Submerman''. ''Ténébrax'' was first published in the short-lived Franco-Belgian comics magazine ''Chouchou'', and continued its serial run in Italian magazine ''Linus''. In 1967, ''Submerman'' was serialised in ''Pilote'' magazine, but after a few years Pichard left the family friendly comics genre entirely. Having collaborated with Danie Dubos on the more daring ''Lolly-strip'' which was se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
