Jean-Marc Reiser

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Reiser or Jean-Marc Reiser (born April 13, 1941 in Réhon , France , † November 5, 1983 in Paris ) was a French cartoonist .

Life

Reiser was born as Jean-Marc Roussillon in the Lorraine department of Meurthe-et-Moselle . Little is known about childhood, education and youth, except that he had to earn money at an early age to support his mother and, as a teenager, had a job as an errand boy for the wine trading company Nicolas . From 1958 until his death, he drew a huge number of disrespectful, obscene and crude pictures and stories (French: bandes dessinées ), which to this day arouse both rejection and enthusiasm. With simple lines, he summed up the memorable everyday life of the average French and did not shrink from exposing them or “political incorrectness”. As recently as 2004, the management of the Center Pompidou believed they had to warn at the entrance to their Reiser retrospective : “Be careful! Some of the exhibited pictures could hurt the feelings of individual visitors. "

In 1960 Reiser and his colleagues Fred and Cavanna founded the comic magazine Hara-Kiri , which developed into a playground for talented illustrators and enjoyed cult status among friends of French underground comics . From 1966 he also worked for the more commercial Pilote magazine . Hara-Kiri was banned by the Minister of the Interior in 1970 after it appeared on the occasion of the death of President Charles de Gaulle in his home in Colombey with the headline “Tragic Ball in Colombey: 1 Dead”. Then Reiser published his drawings and picture stories in the follow-up magazine Charlie Hebdo and in the magazines Charlie Mensuel , Métal hurlant and L'Écho des Savanes . Many of his stories have also appeared in book form, and Reiser was even printed in newspapers such as Le Monde or Le Nouvel Observateur .

In 1978 he won the Grand Prix at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême . Walter Moers and Alice Schwarzer were among his admirers . Reiser died of bone cancer in 1983.

On his 70th birthday, the Caricatura Museum for Komische Kunst in Frankfurt am Main presented the world's largest exhibition to date with around 240 works by Reiser from February to June 2011. The Zurich publishing house Kein & Aber is reissuing the comic volumes for the same reason, translated by Bernd Fritz .

Book publications

In the original

at Éditions du Square, Paris

a) Série bête et méchante

  • Ils sont moches
  • Mon papa (1979)
  • La vie au grand air
  • Gros dégueulasse
  • La vie des bêtes
  • On vit une époque formidable (1976)

b) Hors série

  • Vive les femmes! (1978)
  • Vive les vacances!
  • Phantasmes (1980)

at Éditions Albin Michel, Paris

at F1rst / Albin Michel, Paris

Works in German

  • Vive les femmes! Olms, Zurich 1981
  • Aren't we living in a glorious time? Olms, Zurich 1982; new as: Great times . Kein & Aber, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0369-5282-6
  • Holidays above all! Olms, Zurich 1986
  • The pig priest . Semmel, Kiel 1987; Kein & Aber, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0369-5284-0
  • Among women ... Semmel, Kiel 1987; Kein & Aber, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0369-5283-3
  • My dad . Semmel, Kiel 1988
  • Fantasies . Semmel, Kiel 1988
  • Season of amours . Semmel, Kiel 1988
  • Jeanine . Semmel, Kiel 1989
  • Life under the hot sun . Semmel, Kiel 1989
  • Sex doping . Semmel, Kiel 1989
  • The Schlaubuckel family is on vacation . Semmel, Kiel 1990
  • Reiser's animal life . Semmel, Kiel 1990; Kein & Aber, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0369-5280-2
  • Are you ugly! Semmel, Kiel 1991
  • The red ears . Semmel, Kiel 1992
  • Luck has left us on the left . Roller coaster, Kiel 1995 (Die Vintage Reiser, 1974)
  • You have to enjoy life! Roller coaster, Kiel 1996
  • Back to nature . Roller coaster, Kiel 1998
  • There is enough for everyone (with Coluche ). Roller coaster, Kiel 1998
  • That too: orgasm tax . Roller coaster, Kiel 1999 (Die Vintage Reiser, 1980)

Exhibitions

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Platthaus : French cartoon art. His exhibition? An impudence! In: Feuilleton. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 11, 2011, accessed on March 6, 2018 : "The Frankfurt Museum for Comic Art is exhibiting 240 works by the French comic artist Jean-Marc Reiser."
personal data
SURNAME Reiser, Jean-Marc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reiser
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French comic artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Réhon , France
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 1983
Place of death Paris , France