René Pétillon - Salon du livre de Paris 2010 bis

René Pétillon (; 12 December 1945 – 30 September 2018) was a French satirical and political

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...

and comics artist. As a cartoonist he was most famous for his work in ''

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''. As a comics artist his best known and longest-running series was the humoristic comic strip Jack Palmer, about a goofy

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. Pétillon joined ''

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'' magazine in 1972. From 1993, he published cartoons in the ''

'' and he signed them as ''Pétillon''. In 1989, he was awarded the Grand Prix de la ville at the

Angoulême International Comics Festival The Angoulême International Comics Festival (french: Festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême) is the second largest comics festival in Europe after the Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the third biggest in the world after Lu ...

. In 2002 he get the ''Grand prix de l'humour vache'' at the ''Salon international du dessin de presse et d'humour'' in Saint-Just-le-Martel. In 2001, he published ''L'Enquête Corse'' ("The

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n Enquiry"), dealing with the "independentist" groups in Corsica. The album was a popular and critical success, with 300,000 printed in French plus 30,000 in Corsican. A movie of the same name, starring

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, was based on the book and released in 2004. His work appeared in ''

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'' too and in 2015 he also published in

Charlie Hebdo ''Charlie Hebdo'' (; meaning ''Charlie Weekly'') is a French satirical weekly magazine, featuring cartoons, reports, polemics, and jokes. Stridently non-conformist in tone, the publication has been described as Anti-racism, anti-racist, sceptica ...

. He died in 2018 after a long illness.

References

External links

René Pétillon official art gallery

1945 births 2018 deaths French cartoonists French comics artists French satirists Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême winners Charlie Hebdo people People from Finistère {{cartoonist-stub