Jacques Hurtubise (November 1950 – 11 December 2015) was a Canadian cartoonist and publisher. He was one of the founders of ''

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'' magazine and is considered one of the most prominent figures in

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of the 1970s and 1980s. He was born in Ottawa. Hurtubise's earliest work appeared in his first attempt at a comics magazine was ''L'Hydrocéphale Illustré'' in November 1971, in collaboration with Gilles Desjardins and Françoise Barrette. It was not a success. Following it, he founded a group of young Canadian artists called the Coopérative des Petits Dessins. Throughout the 1970s he produced over 200 comic strips for the newspaper ''

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''. In these strips appeared the characters le Sombre Vilain and his sidekick Bill, the gluttonous boa constrictor who loved to eat pizza delivery men. These adventures continued in the humorous magazine ''Croc'', which he founded in 1979 with Hélène Fleury and Roch Côté. Hurtubise is one of only two Québécois cartoonists, with

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, to appear in ''Le Dictionnaire mondial de la Bande Dessinée'' and ''The World Encyclopedia of Comics''. In 2007 he won the

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, an award for Canadian cartoonists. His works and letters are kept in the

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. Hurtubise was also the

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candidate in 1979 for the Papineau riding. On 11 December 2015, he died in Montreal at the age of 65.

References

* Bell, John; Pomerleau, Luc; MacMillan, Robert (1986) ''Canuck comics, a Guide to Comic Books Published in Canada''. éditions Matrix Books * Carpentier, André (1975) ''La BDK, La Bande Dessinée Kébécoise''. éditions La Barre du Jour * Dubois, Bernard (1996) ''Bande dessinée québécoise : répertoire bibliographique à suivre'', 1996, éditions D.B.K. * Falardeau, Mira (1994) ''La Bande dessinée au Québec''. éditions du Boréal, collection Boréal Express * Falardeau, Mira (2008) ''Histoire de la bande dessinée au Québec'' VLB éditeur, collection Études québécoises * Viau, Michel (1999) ''BDQ, Répertoire des publications de bandes dessinées au Québec des origines à nos jours''. éditions Mille-Îles. 1950 births 2015 deaths Canadian comic strip cartoonists Canadian cartoonists Rhinoceros Party of Canada candidates in the 1979 Canadian federal election {{cartoonist-stub