The French comics artist and author Christian Godard, creator of norberto and kari AND Martin MilanHe died at his Paris home at the age of 92, his relatives announced on Monday, November 11, in a message on his website.
“He fought bravely for more than a year against cancer and fell asleep forever, at home, in Paris, near his family”they clarified.
Born on March 24, 1932 in Paris, Christian Godard debuted under the pseudonym Eme in the early 1950s in illustrated periodicals such as bold roosterbefore publishing under your own name “in all the youth magazines”of Pilot has Pif Mag passing through Tintin AND Spirou, “from the 60s to the present”remember your place.
Designer by René Goscinny (for lili model, Jacquot la mousse…) for twelve years he enjoyed success with norberto and kariseries launched in 1963 in Pilotwhere it explores the friendship between a Polynesian and a Parisian who has decided to flee the capital.
Novels, plays, sketches and scripts
He does it again with Martin MilanHis other, more personal series, about the adventures of an altruistic airplane taxi pilot, began in 1967 in the newspaper Tintin.
As a screenwriter, Christian Godard also signed the crazy jungle with French designer Mic Delinx. Then, in the 1970s, The Limbo Wandererscience fiction series illustrated by the Spanish Julio Ribera, with whom he created a publishing house in 1988, El Barco de Plata, which closed in 1991.
With more than 230 albums to his credit, this versatile author has also written novels, plays, sketches and even television scripts.
He will be buried on Thursday at 3 p.m. in the Saint-Ouen cemetery.
