Jul (comic author)

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Jul at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême, 2013

Jul , real name Julien Lucien Berjeaut (born April 11, 1974 in Maisons-Alfort , Val-de-Marne department ), is a French comic book author , cartoonist and writer.

Life

School and study

Julien Berjeaut grew up as the son of a union-oriented and left-wing teacher couple in Champigny-sur-Marne . He spent his school years up to 14 years on a reform educationally oriented Ovide-Decroly School . He had been practicing illustration of news events since he was ten. At the age of twelve, Julien won third prize in the youth competition of the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d'Angoulême .

He continued his education until 1995 at the École alsacienne , a prestigious private school in the 6th arrondissement of Paris . He then completed a teacher training course at the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud with the aim of becoming an agrégation for the higher teaching post in history, which he achieved in 1998. After completing his studies, he taught Chinese history for a semester until he realized that drawing was more important to him.

Cartoonist

Jul published his first cartoons in the small daily newspaper La Nouvelle République des Pyrénées , which appears in the Hautes-Pyrénées department . In 2001 he received a grant from the French association Fondation de France for a project in which he brought together cartoons and sinology .

He works for the weekly news magazine Le Point , the literary magazine Lire , the communist daily L'Humanité , and he delivers two pages of comics a month to Philosophy Magazine , the French partner magazine of the German Philosophy Magazine . Occasionally he worked for the comic magazines L'Écho des Savanes and Fluide Glacial , for the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo , the news magazines Le Nouvel Observateur and Marianne , and for other magazines. He has also contributed to various daily newspapers such as Les Échos , La Dépêche du Midi , Liberation and Le Monde .

On television, Jul worked as an illustrator on late-night shows for the TV channels France 3 , Canal + and France 2 , and from September 2008 to June 2012 he worked for a weekly literary magazine for the educational channel France 5 . A selection of 400 cartoons created in collaboration with France 5 were published by Éditions Delcourt in 2013 . Jul is one of the cartoonists for the ARTE talk show 28 minutes, which is broadcast on weekdays in the evening program of the French broadcasting area .

Comic book author

As a respected cartoonist, Jul 2005 was gratefully accepted into the comic scene with his satirical comic album Il faut tuer José Bové (German: José Bové must be killed ). This volume, in which he mocked the opponents of globalization, was a great success with critics and audiences. Since then, Jul has published other comic albums alongside his work for newspapers and magazines.

Jul's Silex and the City comic series, which has been published by Dargaud since 2009 , has been broadcast as a cartoon adaptation since September 2012 with around three-minute episodes in the evening program of the Franco-German cultural broadcaster ARTE. With 1.3 million viewers, Silex and the City was the most watched animation show in France in 2013.

In November 2016, the book La Terre Promise, first written by Jul but based on a draft by Morris , who died in 2001, appeared in France as part of the Lucky Luke comic series . With this publication, with a print run of 500,000 copies, the publisher marked the “70. Birthday ”of the comic figure created by Morris in 1946. The volume was published in Germany in spring 2017 under the title Das gelobte Land . The publication experienced a very extensive reception in the media for a comic album, which often referred to the unusual plot - Lucky Luke supports a family of Ashkenazi Jews who immigrated to America . For the album A Cowboy in Paris , which was redrawn in 2018 , Jul took over the entire role as a copywriter.

Prizes and awards

In 2007 Jul was awarded the Prix ​​René Goscinny for his album Le Guide du moutard pour survivre à 9 mois de grossesse (German roughly: "Instructions for brats to survive 9 months of pregnancy"), the title of which is based on the one in France popular guidebook series Guide du routard . In September 2012 Jul was appointed Chevalier des Arts et Lettres and in September 2016 Officier des Arts et Lettres . Since March 2017 he has been Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite (Knight of the French National Order of Merit).

bibliography

Comic albums
  1. Avant notre ère , 2009, ISBN 978-2-205-06138-3
  2. Réduction du temps de trouvaille , 2010, ISBN 978-2-205-06451-3
  3. Le Néolithique, c'est pas automatique , 2012, ISBN 978-2-205-06816-0
  4. Authorization de découverte , 2013, ISBN 978-2-205-07130-6
  5. Vigiprimate , 2014, ISBN 978-2-205-07278-5
  6. Merci pour ce Mammouth , 2015, ISBN 978-2-205-07396-6
  7. Poulpe fiction , 2016, ISBN 978-2-205-07560-1

As a member of an author collective:

Cartoons

  • Da Vinci Digicode , Éditions Danger Public, 2006, ISBN 2-351-23105-8
  • as a member of an author collective: Bonne fête Nicolas! , Vent des Savanes, ISBN 978-2-356-26014-7
  • Conte de fées à l'Élysée , Éditions Albin Michel, in the series Vent des savanes , 2008, ISBN 978-2-35626-080-2
  • as a member of an author collective: the anthology Liberté , in the series Liberté - Égalité - Fraternité , Charlie Hebdo - Éditions Les Échappés, 2008, ISBN 978-2-357-66001-4
  • as a member of an author collective: the anthology Les brèves de Charlie Hebdo , Charlie Hebdo - Éditions Les Échappés, 2008, ISBN 978-2-357-66005-2
  • La Terre vue du fell , Dargaud, 2011, ISBN 978-2-205-06827-6
  • Le Président de vos rêves , Dargaud, 2012, ISBN 978-2-205-06949-5

Children's books

  • Debout les terriens! Protégeons la planète , text by Gwenaëlle Aznar, Editions Albin Michel, in the series Les petits débrouillards , 2004, ISBN 978-2-226-14072-2
  • L'Herbier impitoyable , Charlie Hebdo - Editions Les Échappés, in the series Charlie Hebdo Junior , 2008, ISBN 978-2-35766-007-6
  • Mon père ce héron , Editions Rue de Sèvres, 2014, ISBN 978-2-36981-091-9

Other illustrations

essay

as Julien Berjeaut: Chinois à Calcutta. Les tigres du Bengale , Éditions L'Harmattan, in the series Recherches asiatiques , 1999, ISBN 2-7384-7501-9

TV reports

TV series (as co-director)

For the Franco-German culture channel Arte:

  • Silex and the City , Season 1 with 40 episodes, aired in 2012
  • Silex and the City , Season 2 with 40 episodes, aired in 2013
  • Silex and the City , Season 3 with 40 episodes, aired in 2014
  • Silex and the City , Season 4 with 30 episodes, aired in 2015
  • Silex and the City , Season 5 with 30 episodes, aired in 2017

documentation

  • Turquie, voyage à la croisée des mondes , 48 minutes, broadcast by Arte. In the German-language program under the title Turkey - Eurasia Node . Directed by Xavier Lefèbvre, the script and moderation were by Jul.

Web links

Commons : Jul (cartoonist)  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christophe Barbier: Jul: Le rire ne peut pas être du côté du Some. In: L'Express of August 13, 2010, accessed July 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c Alain Beuve-Méry: Jul: “Marier la BD et le dessin d'actualité” . In: Le Monde, October 9, 2009, accessed July 15, 2017.
  3. ^ Jean-Marie Durand and Anne-Claire Norot: Jul: portrait d'un dessinateur philosophe et ironiste. In: Les Inrockuptibles of October 9, 2011. Archived version ( Memento of December 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Judith Perrignon: Sans forcer le trait . In: Liberation of January 18, 2005, accessed July 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ Olivier Delcroix : Jul, croqueur d'époques , in: Le Figaro , December 24, 2015
  6. ↑ Encyclopédie Larousse online: Julien Berjeaut, dit Jul , accessed on July 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ Olivier Bureau: Le dessinateur Jul lauréat de la Fondation de France . In: Le Parisien, September 7, 2001, accessed July 15, 2017.
  8. ↑ Jul ( Memento March 15, 2013 on the Internet Archive ), employee profile on the Charlie Hebdo website.
  9. ↑ Ministère de la Culture et de Communication: Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres September 2012 from September 24, 2012. Archived version ( Memento from March 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  10. ↑ Ministère de la Culture et de Communication: Nomination dans l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres September 2016 of September 13, 2016, accessed on July 15, 2017.
  11. ^ Présidence de la République: Ordre National du Mérite. Décret du 2 may 2017 portant promotion and nomination. In: Journal officiel de la République Française of May 3, 2017. Online PDF , 320 kB, accessed on July 15, 2017.
  12. ↑ Gilles Guilheux: Review , in: Perspectives chinoises, July / August 1999
personal data
SURNAME Jul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berjeaut, Julien Lucien (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French comic book author, cartoonist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Maisons-Alfort , Val-de-Marne department