Baruti Kandolo Lilela, better known by his pen name Barly Baruti (born December 9, 1959, in

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, in what was then the Congo-Léopoldville), is a Congolese (DRC) cartoonist. He has been described by the

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as "the Congolese author best known outside his country". He studied

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, then worked at the graphics studio of the French Cultural Centre in Kisangani. There, in 1982, he wrote and drew his first published comic, ''Le Temps d'agir'' (''Time to Act''), on environmental issues. In 1984, having won a comics competition, he was invited to study comics writing in Angoulême (

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), then in 1987 worked for a few months at the Studios Hergé in

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. He returned to Congo, where he published several albums, then moved to

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in 1992. In 1994, the Cultural Centre in Kisangani published his album ''Objectif Terre!'' (''Objective: Earth!''), an environmental manifesto. In the late 1990s, he co-produced ''Eva K'', a trilogy of comics albums, with

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, followed by ''Mandrill'', a series of seven albums. For these works, Baruti "replaced his semi-humorous clear line style with a more realistic one". In December 2010, he was invited to participate in the first international exhibition of African comics, in

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. Baruti is the co-founder of the ''Atelier de Création et de l'Initiation à l'Art'' (Creative Workshop for an Initiation to Art) to encourage talented youth in Kinshasa.Biography
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People from Kisangani Democratic Republic of the Congo comics writers Democratic Republic of the Congo comics artists 1959 births Living people 21st-century Democratic Republic of the Congo people {{comics-writer-stub