publishing house
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founded on 1 April 1975 by
Gotlib
Marcel Gottlieb (14 July 1934 – 4 December 2016), known professionally as Gotlib, was a French French comics, comics artist/writer and publisher. Through his own work and the magazines he co-founded, ''L'Écho des savanes'' and ''Fluide Glacial' ...
,
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and . It's one of the most successful comics magazine in France, along with Métal Hurlant.
Since its foundation, it has featured the work of French and international authors and graphic artists such as , Jacques Lob, Luc Nisset,
Édika
Édika is the pen name of Édouard Karali (born 17 December 1940 in Heliopolis, Egypt), a French comics artist, who is renowned for his distinctively absurd style. A number of his comic strips have been translated into several European languag ...
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Claire Bretécher
Claire Bretécher (; 17 April 1940 – 10 February 2020) on Lambiek Comiclopedia was a French
Jean-Claude Mézières
Jean-Claude Mézières (; 23 September 1938 – 23 January 2022) was a French ''bandes dessinées'' artist and illustrator. Born in Paris and raised in nearby Saint-Mandé, he was introduced to drawing by his elder brother and influenced by co ...
Daniel Goossens
Daniel Goossens, born May 16, 1954, in Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône is a French comics artist.
Biography
Goossens began his career in the magazine '' Pionniers''. After a short spell at ''Pilote'' magazine, he began contributing to the ...
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Stéphane Charbonnier
Stéphane Jean-Abel Michel Charbonnier (; 21 August 1967 – 7 January 2015), better known as Charb (), was a French satirical caricaturist and journalist. He was assassinated during the ''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting on 7 January 2015.
He wo ...
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Tignous
Bernard Jean-Charles Verlhac (21 August 1957 – 7 January 2015), known by the pseudonym Tignous (, from oc, Tinhós), was a French cartoonist. He was a long-time staff cartoonist for the French satirical magazine '' Charlie Hebdo''.
On 7 Jan ...
and
André Franquin
André Franquin (; 3 January 1924 – 5 January 1997) was an influential Belgian comics artist, whose best-known creations are '' Gaston'' and ''Marsupilami''. He also produced the ''Spirou et Fantasio'' comic strip from 1946 to 1968, a period s ...
. Nowadays it also features the work of a new generation of authors and comics artists such as
Riad Sattouf
Riad Sattouf ( ar, رياض سطوف; born 5 May 1978) is a French cartoonist, comic artist, and film director. Sattouf is best known for his award-winning graphic memoir hexalogy '' L'Arabe du futur'' (''The Arab of the Future'') and for his awa ...
, , , , and Romain Dutreix.
It was owned by
Groupe Flammarion
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from 1995 until 2016, when it was bought by
Bamboo Édition
Bamboo Édition is a French comics publisher, mostly specializing in humor series. Their manga imprint, Doki-Doki, was established in April 2006.
Doki-Doki Titles
*'' 7 Billion Needles''
*''Antimagia''
*''Atori shō''
*''Aya no shiki''
*'' Bro ...
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has been the magazine's editor in chief since 2012.