Marcel Gotlieb

Gotlib (2011)

Marcel Gotlieb , known as Gotlib (born July 14, 1934 in Paris , † December 4, 2016 in Le Vésinet , Yvelines department ), was a French comic artist .

Family background

Marcel Gotlieb was the son of Ervin and Régine Gotlieb. His father was a Romanian Jew and his mother was a Hungarian Jew . He experienced how his father was arrested and deported in 1942 . In Buchenwald concentration camp Ervin Gotlieb was murdered. Régine Gotlieb hid Marcel and his younger sister Liliane on a farm in the Eure-et-Loir department .

Professional career

Beginnings and first new creations

Marcel Gotlib began his drawing work in 1954 with the lettering of comics for the Opera Mundi agency , then he colored children's books for the Edi-Monde publishing house . In 1962 he started working for the comic magazine Vaillant and created his first comic series Nanar and Gai-Luron . The comics with the white dog Gai-Luron appeared in Germany under the title Witzbold in Volksverlag .

Collaboration with Pilote

In 1965 Gotlib moved from Vaillant to Pilote magazine and became known for the satirical column Les Dingodossiers , to which René Goscinny contributed the texts. The idea of ​​creating an uncontrollable chaos out of everyday situations was further developed in 1968 after Goscinny withdrew from the series with the Rubrique à Brac series . In 1972 the first episodes of the series Superdupont appeared , which Gotlib wrote together with the author Jacques Lob . Superdupont is a chauvinistic superhero in a suit with the colors of the tricolor and a weakness for Camembert .

Gotlib started the Hamster Jovial series for Rock & Folk magazine in 1971 , in which his humor is even more provocative. The series was published by Volksverlag under the title Hamster Fidel und seine Wölfchen and describes the attempts of a scout leader to bring traditional songs and scout virtues closer to a scout group of girls and boys, who, however, are more interested in each other than in the statements of the leader.

Founding of Fluide Glacial

After artistic disputes with René Goscinny, who, as the editor-in-chief of Pilote, refused to publish too satirical drawings by the artists in the magazine, Gotlib, Claire Bretécher and Nikita Mandryka left Pilote in 1972 and founded the magazine L'Écho des Savanes , but Gotlib left after a year to start his own magazine, Fluide Glacial . In Fluide Glacial , episodes of Superdupont by various artists appeared again. The series Pervers Pépère (Peter Pervers) , drawn by Gotlib from 1976, is about an exhibitionist who has to prove himself in everyday situations. From 1977 to 1983 Fluide Glacial published the series Black Thoughts by André Franquin .

Gotlib was able to implement his type of humor, which often has blasphemous and sexual traits, in his own magazine . It mainly contains short stories with closed gags with slapstick elements, over-the-top humor and high-pitched texts. The drawings distort the characters' facial expressions and gestures into unreal dimensions, eyes protrude meters from the heads and limbs whirl around in impossible twisted positions. Gotlib's style is reminiscent of the American magazine MAD and the illustrators Don Martin or Harvey Kurtzman .

Awards

In 1991 he won the Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême . In 2008 the asteroid (184878) Gotlib was named after him.

Web links

Commons : Marcel Gotlieb  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Marcel Gotlieb in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official Homepage Gotlib (French)
• Homepage Fluide Glacial (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gotlib, l'auteur de bande dessinée, est mort . LeMonde.fr , December 4, 2016, accessed December 4, 2016 (French).
2. ↑ Marcel Gotlib . VSD , July 15, 2008, December 4, 2016, accessed December 4, 2016 (French).
3. ↑ Koning van de Nonsens overleden: Marcel Gotlib (1934 - 2016) , Volkskrant, December 5, 2016