Bernard Verlhac

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Bernard Verlhac, 2008

Bernard Verlhac , pseudonym Tignous (born August 21, 1957 in Paris ; † January 7, 2015 there ) was a French cartoonist and press illustrator . He was murdered in the attack on the editorial staff of Charlie Hebdo magazine .

Life

Bernard Verlhac first studied design at a Paris school on Rue Madame and then at the Boulle Art School . He began his career in the early 1980s when he published his first cartoons in various magazines such as L'Idiot international and La Grosse Bertha . In addition to his subsequent work for Charlie Hebdo , he also worked for the magazines Marianne and Fluide Glacial . At the same time, he published his own books, including the satirical debate Cinq ans sous Sarkozy with the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy . He was also a member of the Cartooning for Peace organization .

On January 7, 2015, Bernard Verlhac and eleven other people were killed in the attack on the editorial office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo ; he had attended the weekly editorial meeting there. Verlhac was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.

He was married to Chloe Verlhac, with whom he had two children. He brought two daughters into the marriage from a previous relationship.

Works

  • On s'énerve pour un rien , 1991
  • Tas de riches , 1999
  • Le Sport dans le sang , 2006
  • C'est la faute à la société , 2008
  • Le Procès Colonna , 2008
  • Pandas in the Brumes , 2010
  • Le Fric c'est capital , 2010
  • 5 ans sous Sarkozy , 2011
  • Les Poilus , 2015 (board game artwork)

Web links

Commons : Bernard Verlhac  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tignous: l'hommage de Christophe Alévêque (French) . January 15, 2015. Retrieved January 16, 2015. 
  2. ^ Paris shooting: the cartoonists who were killed , Jan. 7, 2015, The Daily Telegraph
  3. ^ Charlie Hebdo: les dessinateurs Cabu, Charb, Tignous et Wolinski sont morts (French) , Le Figaro . January 7, 2015. Accessed January 7, 2015. 
  4. ↑ Terrorist attack in Paris: France loses famous cartoonists , January 7, 2015, euronews
  5. ↑ The satire lives on in his coffin , January 15, 2015, Bild.de
personal data
SURNAME Verlhac, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tignous
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cartoonist and press illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2015
Place of death Paris