Édika is the
pen name
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of Édouard Karali (born 17 December 1940), a French
comics artist
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, who is renowned for his distinctively absurd style. A number of his comic strips have been translated into several European languages such as;
English (published by ''
Knockabout Comics''),
Spanish
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...
,
Italian
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(in the magazine ''Totem comic''),
German
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(published by ''Alpha Comics''),
Swedish (published by ''Epix''),
Danish (published by ''Runepress'') and
Greek
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(in the magazines ''Vavel'' and ''Para Pente'').
Biography
Initially working for the advertising industry in Egypt, he moved to France where his works were published in the
Franco-Belgian comics magazines ''
Pilote
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'', ''
Charlie Mensuel
''Charlie Mensuel'' (or simply ''Charlie'', "mensuel" being a French term for a monthly periodical) was a French monthly comics magazine. Its publication began in February 1969, and ceased in February 1986.
Tagged "The newspaper full of humour a ...
'', and ''Psikopat'', the magazine of his brother Paul Carali.
A major milestone in his career as a comics artist was his cooperation with
Gotlib, becoming a main contributor to the comics magazine ''
Fluide Glacial''.
Style
A typical Édika comics episode involves a plot structured in a complex and often inconsequential fashion, filled with verbose dialogues and a lot of
meta-reference
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s. Most of those episodes don't have an ending.
Recurring characters are Bronski Proko and sometimes his family: wife Olga, kids Paganini (or just Nini) and Georges, and a non-speaking cat with an otherwise human behaviour, named Clarke Gaybeul (deliberately homophone to
Clark Gable
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).
Notes
References
Edika publications in ''Fluide Glacial''an
– BDoubliées
– Bedetheque
External links
on Lambiek Comiclopedia
Edika : fluide glacial sur la BD
1940 births
French comics artists
French comics writers
Living people
French male writers
Egyptian comics artists
Pseudonymous comics artists
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