André Chéret (27 June 1937 – 5 March 2020) was a French comic book artist. He is best known for creating ''
Rahan'' in 1969 alongside
Roger Lécureux
Roger Lécureux (also spelled Lecureux), (7 April 1925 - 31 December 1999) was a French comic book writer.
Biography
He started off as an offset driver but was dismissed following disputes with his employer. He joined the team of the newspaper ...
.
Biography
Chéret was placed in the care of farmers in
Allier
Allier ( , , ; oc, Alèir) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region that borders Cher to the west, Nièvre to the north, Saône-et-Loire and Loire to the east, Puy-de-Dôme to the south, and Creuse to the south-west. Named afte ...
during
World War II. Passionate about drawing since his earliest childhood, André Chéret discovered comics through reading illustrated books such as ''
Tarzan'' (in which are sometimes published strips signed by
Burne Hogarth
Burne Hogarth (born Spinoza Bernard Ginsburg, December 25, 1911 – January 28, 1996) was an American artist and educator, best known for his work on the ''Tarzan'' newspaper comic strip and his series of anatomy books for artists.
Early life
...
) and ''Fillette''. He also read the
jungle girl ''Durga Râni'' of
René Pellos with his sisters.
In 1952, Chéret found a job in a printing house before working in cinematic advertising. During his military service in 1958 in
Germany, he published his first comic strip, ''Nicéphore Dupont''.
Chéret published his first comic book, '' Paulo et la furie du rodéo'', on 24 May 1959. He published a comic strip in ''
CÅ“urs Vaillants
''CÅ“urs Vaillants'' (''Brave Hearts''), known later as ''J2 Jeunes'' and ''Formule 1'', was a Catholic French language weekly newspaper for French children. Founded in 1929 by ''l' Union des Å“uvres catholiques de France'' (The Union of Catholic ...
'' from 1959 to 1964. He also drew illustrations for the weekly magazine ''Radar'' and for the comic strip ''Rock l’invincible''. From May 1962 until 1969, Chéret drew illustrations for ''
Pif Gadget''.
Chéret continued his work for ''Cœurs Vaillaints'' until 1968 with the comic ''Karl''. In 1979, the first editions of the ''Michel Brazier'' comic were published in ''
Spirou'', but the rest of them remained unpublished until 2015.
Personal life
Chéret married Chantal Sauger in 1974, who illustrated many of his works. For over 30 years, the couple lived in
La Ferté-Saint-Cyr, and Chéret once served as a municipal councillor. He created the logo for the local primary school, which was renamed after ''Rahan'' in April 2017. After Chantal's death in 2017, he moved to
Île-de-France. André Chéret died on 5 March 2020 at the age of 82.
Awards
*Prix de dessin of the
Angoulême International Comics Festival (1976)
References
External links
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1937 births
2020 deaths
French cartoonists
French comics artists
20th-century French illustrators
20th-century French male artists