Nicole Claveloux (; born June 23, 1940) is a French painter, illustrator and

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artist.

Biography

She was born in

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and studied fine arts there. She moved to

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in 1966, where she worked as an illustrator and comics artist for various magazines including ''

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'', ' and ''

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''. Her illustration style incorporates both

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use of colour and sophisticated black and white images. Her work was included in several exhibitions, including ''Nicole Claveloux et compagnie'' at

Villeurbanne Villeurbanne (; frp, Velorbana) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France. It is situated northeast of Lyon, with which it forms the heart of the second-largest metropolitan area in France after tha ...

in 1995 and a retrospective at the Mediatheque Hermeland at

Saint-Herblain Saint-Herblain (; br, Sant-Ervlan, ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Loire-Atlantique Departments of France, department, administrative region of Pays de la Loire (Brittany (historical province), Brittany as historical region), France. I ...

Selected works

* ''Le Voyage extravagant de Hugo Brisefer'' (1967) * ''Alala: Les télémorphoses'' (1970), illustrator. Published by

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in English as ''The Teletrips of Alala'' * '' Les Aventures d'Alice au pays des merveilles'' (1972), illustrator * ''La Main verte'' (1978), comic book featuring a series of short stories from Métal Hurlant. Published in English in 2017 as The Green Hand * '' Double assassinat dans la rue Morgue'' (1981), illustrator * ''Dedans les gens'' (1993), received the Prix Totem Album at the in Montreuil * ''Alboum'' (1998), illustrator, text by received the

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* ''Morceaux choisis de la Belle et la Bête'', erotic book (2003), illustrator * ''Mon Gugus à moi'' (2004), illustrator, received the * ''Un roi, une princesse et une pieuvre'' (2005), illustrator, received the Prix Goncourt Jeunesse * ''Professeur Totem et docteur Tabou'' (2006), illustrator * ''Gargantua'' (2007), illustrator * ''Confessions d'un monte-en-l'air'', erotic book (2007), illustrator * ''Contes de la Fève et du Gland'', erotic book (2010), illustrator * ''La Belle et la bête'', children's book (2013), illustrator * ''Nours'', children's book (2014), illustrator * ''Quel genre de bisous ?'', children's book (2016) * ''The Green Hand and Other Stories'' (2017), with

Édith Zha Édith Zha (born 1945) is a French author and scriptwriter of comics for adults and children. Biography Édith Zha was born in 1945. She studied philosophy. At the beginning of 1978, Edith Zha met Nella Nobili and they began to collect interviews ...

, translated into English by

Donald Nicholson-Smith Donald Nicholson-Smith is a translator and freelance editor, interested in literature, art, psychoanalysis, social criticism, theory, history, crime fiction, and cinema.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Claveloux, Nicole 1940 births Living people French illustrators French women illustrators French comics artists French female comics artists French painters French women painters