If it were not imbued with a connotation that leaves the notion of talent in the background, the Stakhanovite term would suit Christian Godard. Rarely has he worked for so many publications, created or taken on so many series and characters, during his career. His lasted almost seven decades.
Cartoonist and scriptwriter capable of moving from one genre to another with the same ease, as comfortable with a children’s audience as with a more mature audience, this pillar of Franco-Belgian comics died on Monday, November 11 in Paris, the city where he was born ninety years ago. and two years.
Readers of Gadget Pifof Circusof Pilot and newspaper Tintin Did you know that the same author was operating behind the stories of jungle madness (Mic Delinx drawing), by Limbo Wanderer (drawing by Julio Ribera) and Martin Milanyour main creations? Christian Godard will have achieved the feat of standing out literary in the formatted sector of youth comics, inviting poetry, nostalgia, daydreaming, intimacy, long before the ninth art emancipated itself from its youthful straitjacket, at the beginning of the 1970s. Breaking narrative conventions, he even gave his characters different origins from one album to another, as he did in his masterpiece, The Limbo Wandererthe impossible love between a space traveler and a woman he only knows in dreams.
Born on March 24, 1932 in 14my district of Paris, Christian Godard grew up near the Porte de Saint-Ouen, in a working-class district of 17my capital district. Seeing his interest in drawing, his father, construction manager, introduced him to Daniel Laborne, the creator of lariflettea well-known strip at the time starring an average, mute Frenchman in post-war France. Failing at the doors of Paul Grimault’s studios after his military service, the self-taught man published his first boards with Editions Rouff, creating the characters of Pic and Joc, two children who visit a different country in each episode.
Insatiable Hero Taker
For his debut, Godard opted for the pseudonym Eme, pronounced “M,” like the thirteenth letter of the alphabet: “My life has always been located under the sign of 13. I have always believed in luck. Which also implies believing in bad luck, which is very inconvenient.”said. The wheel will turn favorably. A large amount of production begins soon. Making an inventory of the illustrated books he collaborated on in the 1950s was a challenge: little girl, hop, jocko, bold rooster, frank-games, Fripounet and Marisette, Benjamin and Benjamin, lisette, Paris-Flirt, I am the friend of the young., Pistol, Clear schedules, Brave… A versatile author, he takes up his first character, Lili Mannequin, created by Will and René Goscinny. For Goscinny himself, he later drew several series (Jacquot la mousse, Trombone and Bottaclou, Pee).
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