Robert Gigi (1926–2007) was a French
cartoonist,
illustrator and
archivist
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.
Information
Gigi began working in the
art studio
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of
Raymond Poïvet
Raymond Poïvet (17 June 1910 – 30 August 1999) was a French cartoonist.
Poïvet was born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord.
After studies in École des Beaux-Arts of Paris, he started in comics in 1941. In 1945 he joined the communist French ...
while a student. He created his first
comic in 1948, calling himself Bob Gigi. Gigi worked for the Paris-Graphic
press agency
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, which was also known as Fabiola. He also worked for the
magazines ''L'Aurore'' and ''Les Aventuriers d'Aujourd'hui''.
Gigi eventually joined the
Société Parisienne d'Édition The Société Parisienne d'Édition (S.P.É. or SPÉ), originally known as Offenstadt Frères then Publications Offenstadt, was a French publishing house founded by the Offenstadt brothers towards the end of the 19th century. They adopted the name " ...
(SPE) in 1951, remaining until 1980. When he was a part of the Société, his works were published in L'Épatant, Fillette, and Pschitt Adventures. In 1967
Éric Losfeld published his controversial erotic adventure comic
Scarlett Dream, a book that shares a lot of similarities with
Jean-Claude Forest
Jean-Claude Forest (11 September 1930 – 30 December 1998) was a French writer and illustrator of comics and the creator of character Barbarella.
Biography
Jean-Claude Forest was born in Le Perreux-sur-Marne, a Paris suburb and graduated f ...
s
Barbarella comic book. Gigi started a
fantasy series
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in 1970 called Agar, which was
published
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in
Il Corrieri dei Ragazzi. He began to work as a comics
teacher
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at the School of Fine Arts in
Angoulême in the 1980s.
In 1991, Gigi retired and began
sculpting
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. After a long illness, he died in 2007.
None of Roberts comic book have appeared in English so far.
Bibliography
*
Scarlett Dream - 5 albums in French
* Le sablier vert
* Captain Fulgur
* Ugaki
References
1926 births
2007 deaths
French cartoonists
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