Yves Ker Ambrun (YKA) is a

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who was born in

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, France, in 1954 and died on 6 December 2017.Comic Guide (german)
/ref> He worked mainly in animation and advertisement. File:Schnek.gif Yves Ker Ambrun made his comics debut at the age of thirteen, creating 'Mesa Boum', one of the first French underground comics together with Yves Laumonier. He studied in France and in the US at the

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. He worked for different companies, notably the Disney Studios as a character artist and art director. Some of the comics he created are the sci-fi series 'HB-Scott',

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series 'Gaspard le Lézard', the teen series 'Flippo & Punkina' and the realistic series 'Schnecksnyder'. In June 2011, the German version of his socio-ecological ironic graphic novel ''

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'' has been published as "Es darf nicht wahr sein". Among a whole band of disparate characters it features the writer Schnecksnyder whose motto is May Sarton's "One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being," as cited by

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in "

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". At the same time in Germany, Yves Ker Ambrun also launched the first issue of his new comic-book series "Mechaniko", a political allegory in the form of a

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story.

References

External links

YKA's improvised direct-coloured Middle-Ages series "The Beast in the Woods"

Panels and some pages from Schnecksnyder

Mechaniko

1954 births 2017 deaths French comics artists Artists from Tours, France {{Europe-comics-creator-stub